Eben Pyne

Eben Wright Pyne (June 14, 1917 – April 11, 2007) was an American soldier and banker who served as president of the Farmers' Loan and Trust Company (which later became Citibank).

Early life Pyne was born on June 14, 1917. He was a son of financier Grafton Howland Pyne (1890–1935) and Leta Constance (née Wright) Pyne (1892–1957). Percy Rivington Pyne III, John Wright Pyne, and Alison (née Pyne) Ewing (wife of New Jersey State Senator John H. Ewing). His paternal uncle was Percy Rivington Pyne Jr., a flier with the 103d Aero Squadron during World War I. His maternal grandfather was prominent art collector Eben Wright. succeeding Richard S. Perkins who had been president since 1951. In 1959, it became First National City Trust which was incorporated into First National City Bank in 1963, when he was named "senior vice president in charge of the trust and investment division" before retiring in 1982. In 1960, he joined the board of W. R. Grace & Co., which his wife's family founded.

Public service In 1964, he was recruited by Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller "to help rescue the failing Long Island Rail Road." In that post, which he held until 1975, he helped steer the agency’s acquisition of other ailing suburban lines that had been merged into Conrail and later formed Metro-North." He was also a commissioner of the New York City Transit Authority, the Triborough Bridge and Tunnel Authority, the Manhattan and Bronx Surface Transit Operating Authority, the Staten Island Rapid Transit Operating Authority and Stewart International Airport. Hilda was an avid golfer who showed horses at the Piping Rock Club in Locust Valley. Before her death in 1986, they were the parents of three daughters: who married Randall Steele Howard in 1964. They divorced and she married Thomas Albert Ranges in 1970. Lillian Stokes Pyne (b. 1947), who married artist Peter Stockton Corbin in 1973. Mary Alison Pyne (b. 1960), who married Donald Bruce McNaughton in 1990.

In 1995, married Nancy Maguire (née Beebe) Gray, the daughter of Brig. Gen. Hamilton Ewing Maguire and the widow of Gordon Gray, a former secretary of the Army and president of the University of North Carolina. Pyne had homes in Manhattan, Old Westbury on Long Island, Hobe Sound, Florida, and Northeast Harbor, Maine.