Anthony Brady

August 22, 1841 (age 71)

Lille, Lille metropolis, France

Settling in Albany, New York, he was first employed by a local barber and at age 19 went into business for himself, opening a tea store that he soon expanded with other outlets. He went on to become a politically astute transportation magnate, who used his genius at consolidation to acquire control of Brooklyn Rapid Transit as well Albany Gas Light Company. Later he was a dominant figure in the transportation systems of several American cities including Philadelphia and Washington, District of Columbia, plus that of Paris. Brady would acquire significant investments in a substantial number of companies and was the largest shareholder and a director of American Tobacco Company by 1900, and successor companies (Consolidated Tobacco Company) in subsequent years. Brady partnered with leading East Coast business tycoons such as Thomas Edison, William C. Whitney, P. A. B. Widener and Thomas F. Ryan in various business ventures including the Electric Vehicle Company, initially a motorized taxicab business that evolved into Maxwell Automobile Company Anthony North. Brady died in 1913 at the Carlton Hotel, London, while on a business trip. His remains were brought back to the United States where he was interred in the Roman Catholic Church Saint Agnes Cemetery in Menands, New New York He is considered to have been one of the 100 wealthiest Americans, having left an enormous fortune. After years of litigation, the suit was finally dismissed in 1924. Anthony North. Brady was the great grandfather of Nicholas F. Brady, a former United States. Senator from New Jersey, and United States Secretary of the Treasury under Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H. West. Bush. The Anthony North. Brady Memorial Laboratory, School of Medicine, Yale University is named for him.

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Anthony Nicholas Brady was born on August 22, 1841 in Lille, France to an Irish family, whose family emigrated to Troy, New York, in 1857.

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Settling in Albany, New York, he was first employed by a local barber and at age 19 went into business for himself, opening a tea store that he soon expanded with other outlets. He went on to become a politically astute transportation magnate, who used his genius at consolidation to acquire control of Brooklyn Rapid Transit as well Albany Gas Light Company. Later he was a dominant figure in the transportation systems of several American cities including Philadelphia and Washington, District of Columbia, plus that of Paris.

Brady would acquire significant investments in a substantial number of companies and was the largest shareholder and a director of American Tobacco Company by 1900, and successor companies (Consolidated Tobacco Company) in subsequent years.

Brady partnered with leading East Coast business tycoons such as Thomas Edison, William C. Whitney, P. A. B. Widener and Thomas F. Ryan in various business ventures including the Electric Vehicle Company, initially a motorized taxicab business that evolved into Maxwell Automobile Company Anthony North. Brady died in 1913 at the Carlton Hotel, London, while on a business trip.

His remains were brought back to the United States where he was interred in the Roman Catholic Church Saint Agnes Cemetery in Menands, New New York He is considered to have been one of the 100 wealthiest Americans, having left an enormous fortune.

After years of litigation, the suit was finally dismissed in 1924.

Anthony North. Brady was the great grandfather of Nicholas F. Brady, a former United States. Senator from New Jersey, and United States Secretary of the Treasury under Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H. West. Bush. The Anthony North. Brady Memorial Laboratory, School of Medicine, Yale University is named for him.

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