Willard Underhill Taylor participated in the twenty-third Annual Commencement of Cornell University on June 18, 1891.
A "Supper Dance" at their home in Garden City for their daughter Mary M. Taylor, received coverage in The New York Times, owing to the impressive list of guests who attended.
[2] Taylor became an active player in the New York City real estate market starting in the late 1920s.
One of his first important purchases was the Holland-Plaza Building, erected on a site owned by Trinity Church Corporation near the entrance to the Holland Tunnel.
He acquired a twenty-story building in New York City, at 423-27 Fourth Avenue, on the northeast corner of 29th Street in 1934 for over $1,000,000.
[5] In 1936, the Taylor's acquired the Reginald Barclay seashore estate at North Haven called Ettington, where they made their summer home.
[6] Willard Underhill Taylor, Jr., served for four years in the Navy on underwater demolition during World War II.
At the time of death she was living at 215 East 68th Street and getting treatment in the Harkness Pavilion, Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center.