Cornelius Cuyler Cuyler (1859-1909)

He was born in Philadelphia and graduated from Princeton (1879). He began his banking career with his uncle Morris K. Jesup in Jesup, Paton & Co., New York City. He became a partner in 1882 before establishing Cuyler, Morgan & Co. with Junius S. Morgan. He was President of the United States Mortgage & Trust Company and Vice-President of the United States Guaranty Company. He was a director of the Casualty Company of America, the Commercial Trust Company of New Jersey, the Guarantee Company of North America, J. G. White & Co., the Mercantile Trust Company, the Metropolitan Audit Company, the Mobile & Ohio Railroad Co., the National Heat, Light & Power Company, the New York Dock Company, the Orange National Bank, the Registrar & Transfer Company of New Jersey, the United New Jersey Railroad & Canal Companies, the Subsurface Torpedo Company, the Princeton Inn Company, the University Power Company of Princeton, the Princeton Publishing Company, the Princeton University Press, the Princeton Bank, and the Princeton Preparatory School.

He was President of the Institute of Musical Art in New York, Treasurer of the American School of Classical Studies in Rome, and a member of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the New York Historical, Genealogical and Biographical Societies, and the Archaeological Institute of America. He took a deep interest in the affairs of his alma mater, Princeton, where he was on the Board of Trustees and a member of the Graduate Advisory Committee on Athletics. In memory of his father he established the Theodore Cuyler Prize in Economics at Princeton. He was a member of the Princeton, Union, Lawyers', University, Century, Down Town and City Clubs of New York, and the Nassau and Ivy Clubs of Princeton. In 1906, he married the widowed Mrs. Mary Townsend (Nicoll) Lord, daughter of Solomon Townsend Nicoll, who afterwards married Thomas Fortune Ryan. He was killed in a car accident while motoring near Biarritz in France and died without children.