[2] Tailer was born on July 20, 1830, in the Greenwich Village section of New York City.

[1] In the early part of his career, he was associated with the firms of W. & S. Phipps & Co. of Boston and New York as well as Fanshaw, Milliken & Townsend, Reimer & Meche, and Sturges, Shaw & Co., as a buyer and salesman.

[6] The firm was a prominent dry goods merchant, importing cloth company located in New York City.

[15] In 1874, he joined the Patriarchs, a group of the city's elite men that was established by McAllister.

[12] They lived in a house at 11 Washington Square North built in 1834 by her father,[10] and traveled extensively around Europe.

[10] His wife died shortly thereafter on March 17, 1917, reportedly overcome by grief for the loss of her husband.