Anthony N. Brady
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Anthony Nicholas Brady was an American businessman born in Lille
Lille
Lille is a city in northern France . It is the principal city of the Lille Métropole, the fourth-largest metropolitan area in the country behind those of Paris, Lyon and Marseille. Lille is situated on the Deûle River, near France's border with Belgium...

, France who emigrated to Troy, New York
Troy, New York
Troy is a city in the US State of New York and the seat of Rensselaer County. Troy is located on the western edge of Rensselaer County and on the eastern bank of the Hudson River. Troy has close ties to the nearby cities of Albany and Schenectady, forming a region popularly called the Capital...

 in 1857. Settling in Albany, New York
Albany, New York
Albany is the capital city of the U.S. state of New York, the seat of Albany County, and the central city of New York's Capital District. Roughly north of New York City, Albany sits on the west bank of the Hudson River, about south of its confluence with the Mohawk River...

 he was first employed by a local barber and at age 19 went into business for himself, opening a tea
Tea
Tea is an aromatic beverage prepared by adding cured leaves of the Camellia sinensis plant to hot water. The term also refers to the plant itself. After water, tea is the most widely consumed beverage in the world...

 store that he soon expanded with other outlets. He went on to become a politically astute traction magnate, who used his genius at consolidation to acquire control of Brooklyn Rapid Transit
Brooklyn Rapid Transit
The Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company was a public transit holding company formed in 1896 to acquire and consolidate lines in Brooklyn and Queens, New York City, United States. It was a prominent corporation and industry leader using the single-letter symbol B on the New York Stock Exchange...

 as well Albany Gas Light Company. Later he was a dominant figure in the traction systems of several American cities including Philadelphia and Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, "the District", or simply D.C., is the capital of the United States. On July 16, 1790, the United States Congress approved the creation of a permanent national capital as permitted by the U.S. Constitution....

 plus that of Paris. http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9806E5DE133CE633A25757C0A9669D946396D6CF Brady would acquire significant investments in a substantial number of companies and was the largest shareholder and a director of American Tobacco Company
American Tobacco Company
The American Tobacco Company was a tobacco company founded in 1890 by J. B. Duke through a merger between a number of U.S. tobacco manufacturers including Allen and Ginter and Goodwin & Company...

 as of 1900, and successor companies (Consolidated Tobacco Company) in subsequent years.

Anthony Brady married Marcia Ann Myers from Vermont with whom he had six children. She was an Episcopalian
Episcopal Church (United States)
The Episcopal Church is a mainline Anglican Christian church found mainly in the United States , but also in Honduras, Taiwan, Colombia, Ecuador, Haiti, the Dominican Republic, Venezuela, the British Virgin Islands and parts of Europe...

 and the children were raised in that faith. http://www.stignatiusloyola.org/pdf/nursery/nursery_history.pdf

Brady partnered with leading East Coast business tycoons such as Thomas Edison
Thomas Edison
Thomas Alva Edison was an American inventor and businessman. He developed many devices that greatly influenced life around the world, including the phonograph, the motion picture camera, and a long-lasting, practical electric light bulb. In addition, he created the world’s first industrial...

, William C. Whitney
William C. Whitney
William Collins Whitney was an American political leader and financier and founder of the prominent Whitney family. He served as Secretary of the Navy in the first Cleveland administration from 1885 through 1889. A conservative reformer, he was considered a Bourbon Democrat.-Early life:William...

, P. A. B. Widener
Peter Arrell Brown Widener
Peter Arrell Brown Widener was an American businessman and head of the prominent Widener family of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.-Biography:...

 and Thomas F. Ryan
Thomas Fortune Ryan
Thomas Fortune Ryan was a U.S. tobacco and transport magnate. Part of his fortune paid for the construction of the Cathedral of the Sacred Heart in Richmond, Virginia.-Early days:...

 in various business ventures including the Electric Vehicle Co., initially a motorized taxicab
Taxicab
A taxicab, also taxi or cab, is a type of vehicle for hire with a driver, used by a single passenger or small group of passengers, often for a non-shared ride. A taxicab conveys passengers between locations of their choice...

 business that evolved into Maxwell Automobile Co.
Maxwell automobile
The Maxwell was a brand of automobiles manufactured in the United States of America from about 1904 to 1925. The present-day successor to the Maxwell company is Chrysler Group.-History:...

.

Anthony N. Brady died in 1913 at the Carlton Hotel, London
Carlton Hotel, London
The Carlton Hotel, London was a luxury hotel that operated from 1899 to 1940. It was designed by the architect C. J. Phipps as part of a larger development that included the rebuilding of Her Majesty's Theatre, which is adjacent to the hotel site. The Carlton was originally run by the Swiss...

, while on a business trip. http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9800E0DE113CE633A25750C2A9619C946296D6CF His remains were brought back to the United States where he was interred in the Roman Catholic Church
Roman Catholic Church
The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the world's largest Christian church, with over a billion members. Led by the Pope, it defines its mission as spreading the gospel of Jesus Christ, administering the sacraments and exercising charity...

 Saint Agnes Cemetery in Menands, New York
Menands, New York
Menands is a village in Albany County, New York, United States. The population was 3,990 at the 2010 census. The village is named after Louis Menand...

. He is considered to have been one of the 100 wealthiest Americans, having left an enormous fortune,. His sons, James Cox Brady (1882–1927) and Nicholas Frederic Brady
Nicholas Frederic Brady
Nicholas Frederic Brady was a New York City businessman and philanthropist who was the first American to receive the Roman Catholic Church honor, the Ordine Supremo del Christo. He was the holder of several papal honors including being a papal duke.Born in Albany, New York, the son of...

 (1878–1930), continued to successfully operate the vast business empire but in 1923 a family feud erupted when their three sisters took them to court, charging irregularities in the management of their father's estate. http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=FB0C13FE3F5416738DDDAF0A94DE405B838EF1D3 After years of litigation, the suit was finally dismissed in 1924. http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,787591-2,00.html

Anthony N. Brady was the great grandfather of Nicholas F. Brady
Nicholas F. Brady
Nicholas Frederick Brady was United States Secretary of the Treasury under Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush, and is also known for articulating the Brady Plan in March 1989.-Early life:...

, a former U.S. Senator from New Jersey, and United States Secretary of the Treasury
United States Secretary of the Treasury
The Secretary of the Treasury of the United States is the head of the United States Department of the Treasury, which is concerned with financial and monetary matters, and, until 2003, also with some issues of national security and defense. This position in the Federal Government of the United...

 under Presidents Ronald Reagan
Ronald Reagan
Ronald Wilson Reagan was the 40th President of the United States , the 33rd Governor of California and, prior to that, a radio, film and television actor....

 and George H. W. Bush
George H. W. Bush
George Herbert Walker Bush is an American politician who served as the 41st President of the United States . He had previously served as the 43rd Vice President of the United States , a congressman, an ambassador, and Director of Central Intelligence.Bush was born in Milton, Massachusetts, to...

.

Legacy

The Anthony N. Brady Memorial Laboratory, School of Medicine, Yale University
Yale University
Yale University is a private, Ivy League university located in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701 in the Colony of Connecticut, the university is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States...

 is named for him.

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