James Cox Brady, B.A. 1904.
Born September 23, 1882, in Albany, N Y
Died November 10, 1927, in New York City.
Father, Anthony Nicholas Brady, a capitalist, largely interested in gas and electric lighting corporations in Albany, Troy, New York, Chicago, and other cities and in traction lines in Troy, Albany, and New York, born in Lille, France, and came to America with his parents in childhood; son of Nicholas and Ellen (Malone) Brady.
Mother, Marcia Ann (Myers) Brady, daughter of Harmon Myers, a Vermont jurist, and Margaret Ruth (Eldred) Myers; descendant of Nicholas Myers, who came to this country from Germany and settled in Little Compton, R. I., about 1708
Yale relatives include a nephew, Luther Tucker, '31.
Albany Academy. Member Alpha Delta Phi and Scroll and Key Had been engaged in business along financial lines since 1904, being associated with his father until the latter's death in 1913, with his brother, Nicholas F. Brady, '99, had since been coexecutor and cotrustee of his father's estate; had been former president and director of Consolidated Light & Power Company of Whitehall, N. Y., Glens Falls Gas & Electric Company, Herkimer County Light & Power Company, United Gas, Electric Light & Fuel Company of Sandy Hill and Fort Edward, N. Y., and U. S. Locomotive & Equipment Company; former treasurer and director of Chattanooga & Tennessee River Power Company and Harway Improvement Company of New York City; former secretary and treasurer of Crude Rubber Regenerating Company and treasurer of Thomson Hill Land & Improvement Company, former director of Albany Trust Company, Bridgeport Gas Light Company, East River Gas Company of Long Island City, New Amsterdam Gas Company of New York City, Westchester Lighting Company, Utica Gas & Electric Company, Municipal Gas Company,Tennessee Electric Power Company, Kings County Electric & Power Company, Consolidated Light & Power Company, American Tobacco Company, Maxwell Motor Corporation (chairman of board 1913-17), Blair & Company, Inc , of New York City, U S Motor Company, Leslie-Judge Company, and U S Cast Iron Pipe & Foundry Company, Brooklyn Heights Railroad Company, Continental Insurance Company, New York, Helderberg Cement Company, Albany, Meyer Rubber Company, New York, National Commercial Bank, Albany, North Beach Land & Improvement Company, New York, Transit Development Company, Brooklyn, U S Rubber Company, and United Timber Corporation, New York, former director and member of executive committee of Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company and New York Municipal Railway Corporation; at the time of his death was a trustee and director of Central Union Trust Company of New York and director of Chrysler Motor Corporation, Mohawk Hudson Power Company, New York Title & Mortgage Company, Prudential Oil Corporation (chairman of board), and New York Post-Graduate Medical School and Hospital, in 1918 served as chairman of New York Club Committee of Federal Food Administration and as member of the Mayor's Committee on National Defense and of Motor Transport Corps in Washington, D C ; in 1923 was created a Knight Commander of the Order of St Gregory, with the Grand Cross of that order, and a Private Chamberlain of the Cape and Sword by Pope Pius XI, and the same year was created a Knight Commander of the Crown of Italv by the Italian Government, with his brother gave to Yale the Anthony N. Brady Memorial Foundation of the Medical School, of $1,000,000, his gifts also included the Elizabeth Jane Hamilton Brady Memorial, a Roman Catholic parochial school and home at Bernardsville, N J., and the Villa Victoria, a home for orphans and Italian nuns at Trenton, N J., a memorial to his second wife; owner of the Dixiana stock farm near Lexington, Ky ; had a summer home at Hamilton Farm, near Gladstone, N. J.; member Albany Society of New York and of its board of governors for many years; governor of the Essex Fox Hounds of Peapack, N. J.; member of Our Lady of Perpetual Help Roman Catholic Church, Bernardsville.
Married (1) March 4, 1905, in Albany, Elizabeth Jane, daughter of Andrew and Jessie Reed (Walker) Hamilton.
Children: Elizabeth Jane Hamilton, the wife of Frederick S. Moseley, Jr. (B.A. Harvard 1926); James Cox, Jr., '29; and Ruth. Mrs Brady was killed in a railroad accident October 3, 1912.
Married (2) October 14,19i4,at Monmouth Beach,N. J., Lady Victoria Mary Pery, daughter of Edmond Pery, Earl of Limerick, and Countess May Limerick, of Dromore Castle, Limerick, Ireland.
Children: Victoria Mary Pery and Genevieve. Mrs. Brady died December 26, 1918.
Married (3) October 2,1920, in London, Helen, daughter of John Timothy and Ellen (Mornssey) McMahon, of Flushing, N.Y., and sister of John T. McMahon, '26.
Death due to pneumonia.
Buried in St. Agnes Cemetery, Albany.
Survived by wife, son, four daughters, brother, and three sisters, Mabel Brady Garvan, the wife of Francis P. Garvan, '97, Marcia M. Brady Tucker, the wife of Carll Tucker, '04, and Mrs James C. Farrell, of Albany, N. Y.
His brother has established the James Cox Brady Memorial Fund of $500,000 for the benefit of the Yale School of Medicine.
http://mssa.library.yale.edu/obituary_record/1925_1952/1927-28.pdf
Born September 23, 1882, in Albany, N Y
Died November 10, 1927, in New York City.
Father, Anthony Nicholas Brady, a capitalist, largely interested in gas and electric lighting corporations in Albany, Troy, New York, Chicago, and other cities and in traction lines in Troy, Albany, and New York, born in Lille, France, and came to America with his parents in childhood; son of Nicholas and Ellen (Malone) Brady.
Mother, Marcia Ann (Myers) Brady, daughter of Harmon Myers, a Vermont jurist, and Margaret Ruth (Eldred) Myers; descendant of Nicholas Myers, who came to this country from Germany and settled in Little Compton, R. I., about 1708
Yale relatives include a nephew, Luther Tucker, '31.
Albany Academy. Member Alpha Delta Phi and Scroll and Key Had been engaged in business along financial lines since 1904, being associated with his father until the latter's death in 1913, with his brother, Nicholas F. Brady, '99, had since been coexecutor and cotrustee of his father's estate; had been former president and director of Consolidated Light & Power Company of Whitehall, N. Y., Glens Falls Gas & Electric Company, Herkimer County Light & Power Company, United Gas, Electric Light & Fuel Company of Sandy Hill and Fort Edward, N. Y., and U. S. Locomotive & Equipment Company; former treasurer and director of Chattanooga & Tennessee River Power Company and Harway Improvement Company of New York City; former secretary and treasurer of Crude Rubber Regenerating Company and treasurer of Thomson Hill Land & Improvement Company, former director of Albany Trust Company, Bridgeport Gas Light Company, East River Gas Company of Long Island City, New Amsterdam Gas Company of New York City, Westchester Lighting Company, Utica Gas & Electric Company, Municipal Gas Company,Tennessee Electric Power Company, Kings County Electric & Power Company, Consolidated Light & Power Company, American Tobacco Company, Maxwell Motor Corporation (chairman of board 1913-17), Blair & Company, Inc , of New York City, U S Motor Company, Leslie-Judge Company, and U S Cast Iron Pipe & Foundry Company, Brooklyn Heights Railroad Company, Continental Insurance Company, New York, Helderberg Cement Company, Albany, Meyer Rubber Company, New York, National Commercial Bank, Albany, North Beach Land & Improvement Company, New York, Transit Development Company, Brooklyn, U S Rubber Company, and United Timber Corporation, New York, former director and member of executive committee of Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company and New York Municipal Railway Corporation; at the time of his death was a trustee and director of Central Union Trust Company of New York and director of Chrysler Motor Corporation, Mohawk Hudson Power Company, New York Title & Mortgage Company, Prudential Oil Corporation (chairman of board), and New York Post-Graduate Medical School and Hospital, in 1918 served as chairman of New York Club Committee of Federal Food Administration and as member of the Mayor's Committee on National Defense and of Motor Transport Corps in Washington, D C ; in 1923 was created a Knight Commander of the Order of St Gregory, with the Grand Cross of that order, and a Private Chamberlain of the Cape and Sword by Pope Pius XI, and the same year was created a Knight Commander of the Crown of Italv by the Italian Government, with his brother gave to Yale the Anthony N. Brady Memorial Foundation of the Medical School, of $1,000,000, his gifts also included the Elizabeth Jane Hamilton Brady Memorial, a Roman Catholic parochial school and home at Bernardsville, N J., and the Villa Victoria, a home for orphans and Italian nuns at Trenton, N J., a memorial to his second wife; owner of the Dixiana stock farm near Lexington, Ky ; had a summer home at Hamilton Farm, near Gladstone, N. J.; member Albany Society of New York and of its board of governors for many years; governor of the Essex Fox Hounds of Peapack, N. J.; member of Our Lady of Perpetual Help Roman Catholic Church, Bernardsville.
Married (1) March 4, 1905, in Albany, Elizabeth Jane, daughter of Andrew and Jessie Reed (Walker) Hamilton.
Children: Elizabeth Jane Hamilton, the wife of Frederick S. Moseley, Jr. (B.A. Harvard 1926); James Cox, Jr., '29; and Ruth. Mrs Brady was killed in a railroad accident October 3, 1912.
Married (2) October 14,19i4,at Monmouth Beach,N. J., Lady Victoria Mary Pery, daughter of Edmond Pery, Earl of Limerick, and Countess May Limerick, of Dromore Castle, Limerick, Ireland.
Children: Victoria Mary Pery and Genevieve. Mrs. Brady died December 26, 1918.
Married (3) October 2,1920, in London, Helen, daughter of John Timothy and Ellen (Mornssey) McMahon, of Flushing, N.Y., and sister of John T. McMahon, '26.
Death due to pneumonia.
Buried in St. Agnes Cemetery, Albany.
Survived by wife, son, four daughters, brother, and three sisters, Mabel Brady Garvan, the wife of Francis P. Garvan, '97, Marcia M. Brady Tucker, the wife of Carll Tucker, '04, and Mrs James C. Farrell, of Albany, N. Y.
His brother has established the James Cox Brady Memorial Fund of $500,000 for the benefit of the Yale School of Medicine.
http://mssa.library.yale.edu/obituary_record/1925_1952/1927-28.pdf
James Cox Brady, B.A. 1904.
Born September 23, 1882, in Albany, N Y
Died November 10, 1927, in New York City.
Father, Anthony Nicholas Brady, a capitalist, largely interested in gas and electric lighting corporations in Albany, Troy, New York, Chicago, and other cities and in traction lines in Troy, Albany, and New York, born in Lille, France, and came to America with his parents in childhood; son of Nicholas and Ellen (Malone) Brady.
Mother, Marcia Ann (Myers) Brady, daughter of Harmon Myers, a Vermont jurist, and Margaret Ruth (Eldred) Myers; descendant of Nicholas Myers, who came to this country from Germany and settled in Little Compton, R. I., about 1708
Yale relatives include a nephew, Luther Tucker, '31.
Albany Academy. Member Alpha Delta Phi and Scroll and Key Had been engaged in business along financial lines since 1904, being associated with his father until the latter's death in 1913, with his brother, Nicholas F. Brady, '99, had since been coexecutor and cotrustee of his father's estate; had been former president and director of Consolidated Light & Power Company of Whitehall, N. Y., Glens Falls Gas & Electric Company, Herkimer County Light & Power Company, United Gas, Electric Light & Fuel Company of Sandy Hill and Fort Edward, N. Y., and U. S. Locomotive & Equipment Company; former treasurer and director of Chattanooga & Tennessee River Power Company and Harway Improvement Company of New York City; former secretary and treasurer of Crude Rubber Regenerating Company and treasurer of Thomson Hill Land & Improvement Company, former director of Albany Trust Company, Bridgeport Gas Light Company, East River Gas Company of Long Island City, New Amsterdam Gas Company of New York City, Westchester Lighting Company, Utica Gas & Electric Company, Municipal Gas Company,Tennessee Electric Power Company, Kings County Electric & Power Company, Consolidated Light & Power Company, American Tobacco Company, Maxwell Motor Corporation (chairman of board 1913-17), Blair & Company, Inc , of New York City, U S Motor Company, Leslie-Judge Company, and U S Cast Iron Pipe & Foundry Company, Brooklyn Heights Railroad Company, Continental Insurance Company, New York, Helderberg Cement Company, Albany, Meyer Rubber Company, New York, National Commercial Bank, Albany, North Beach Land & Improvement Company, New York, Transit Development Company, Brooklyn, U S Rubber Company, and United Timber Corporation, New York, former director and member of executive committee of Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company and New York Municipal Railway Corporation; at the time of his death was a trustee and director of Central Union Trust Company of New York and director of Chrysler Motor Corporation, Mohawk Hudson Power Company, New York Title & Mortgage Company, Prudential Oil Corporation (chairman of board), and New York Post-Graduate Medical School and Hospital, in 1918 served as chairman of New York Club Committee of Federal Food Administration and as member of the Mayor's Committee on National Defense and of Motor Transport Corps in Washington, D C ; in 1923 was created a Knight Commander of the Order of St Gregory, with the Grand Cross of that order, and a Private Chamberlain of the Cape and Sword by Pope Pius XI, and the same year was created a Knight Commander of the Crown of Italv by the Italian Government, with his brother gave to Yale the Anthony N. Brady Memorial Foundation of the Medical School, of $1,000,000, his gifts also included the Elizabeth Jane Hamilton Brady Memorial, a Roman Catholic parochial school and home at Bernardsville, N J., and the Villa Victoria, a home for orphans and Italian nuns at Trenton, N J., a memorial to his second wife; owner of the Dixiana stock farm near Lexington, Ky ; had a summer home at Hamilton Farm, near Gladstone, N. J.; member Albany Society of New York and of its board of governors for many years; governor of the Essex Fox Hounds of Peapack, N. J.; member of Our Lady of Perpetual Help Roman Catholic Church, Bernardsville.
Married (1) March 4, 1905, in Albany, Elizabeth Jane, daughter of Andrew and Jessie Reed (Walker) Hamilton.
Children: Elizabeth Jane Hamilton, the wife of Frederick S. Moseley, Jr. (B.A. Harvard 1926); James Cox, Jr., '29; and Ruth. Mrs Brady was killed in a railroad accident October 3, 1912.
Married (2) October 14,19i4,at Monmouth Beach,N. J., Lady Victoria Mary Pery, daughter of Edmond Pery, Earl of Limerick, and Countess May Limerick, of Dromore Castle, Limerick, Ireland.
Children: Victoria Mary Pery and Genevieve. Mrs. Brady died December 26, 1918.
Married (3) October 2,1920, in London, Helen, daughter of John Timothy and Ellen (Mornssey) McMahon, of Flushing, N.Y., and sister of John T. McMahon, '26.
Death due to pneumonia.
Buried in St. Agnes Cemetery, Albany.
Survived by wife, son, four daughters, brother, and three sisters, Mabel Brady Garvan, the wife of Francis P. Garvan, '97, Marcia M. Brady Tucker, the wife of Carll Tucker, '04, and Mrs James C. Farrell, of Albany, N. Y.
His brother has established the James Cox Brady Memorial Fund of $500,000 for the benefit of the Yale School of Medicine.
http://mssa.library.yale.edu/obituary_record/1925_1952/1927-28.pdf
Born September 23, 1882, in Albany, N Y
Died November 10, 1927, in New York City.
Father, Anthony Nicholas Brady, a capitalist, largely interested in gas and electric lighting corporations in Albany, Troy, New York, Chicago, and other cities and in traction lines in Troy, Albany, and New York, born in Lille, France, and came to America with his parents in childhood; son of Nicholas and Ellen (Malone) Brady.
Mother, Marcia Ann (Myers) Brady, daughter of Harmon Myers, a Vermont jurist, and Margaret Ruth (Eldred) Myers; descendant of Nicholas Myers, who came to this country from Germany and settled in Little Compton, R. I., about 1708
Yale relatives include a nephew, Luther Tucker, '31.
Albany Academy. Member Alpha Delta Phi and Scroll and Key Had been engaged in business along financial lines since 1904, being associated with his father until the latter's death in 1913, with his brother, Nicholas F. Brady, '99, had since been coexecutor and cotrustee of his father's estate; had been former president and director of Consolidated Light & Power Company of Whitehall, N. Y., Glens Falls Gas & Electric Company, Herkimer County Light & Power Company, United Gas, Electric Light & Fuel Company of Sandy Hill and Fort Edward, N. Y., and U. S. Locomotive & Equipment Company; former treasurer and director of Chattanooga & Tennessee River Power Company and Harway Improvement Company of New York City; former secretary and treasurer of Crude Rubber Regenerating Company and treasurer of Thomson Hill Land & Improvement Company, former director of Albany Trust Company, Bridgeport Gas Light Company, East River Gas Company of Long Island City, New Amsterdam Gas Company of New York City, Westchester Lighting Company, Utica Gas & Electric Company, Municipal Gas Company,Tennessee Electric Power Company, Kings County Electric & Power Company, Consolidated Light & Power Company, American Tobacco Company, Maxwell Motor Corporation (chairman of board 1913-17), Blair & Company, Inc , of New York City, U S Motor Company, Leslie-Judge Company, and U S Cast Iron Pipe & Foundry Company, Brooklyn Heights Railroad Company, Continental Insurance Company, New York, Helderberg Cement Company, Albany, Meyer Rubber Company, New York, National Commercial Bank, Albany, North Beach Land & Improvement Company, New York, Transit Development Company, Brooklyn, U S Rubber Company, and United Timber Corporation, New York, former director and member of executive committee of Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company and New York Municipal Railway Corporation; at the time of his death was a trustee and director of Central Union Trust Company of New York and director of Chrysler Motor Corporation, Mohawk Hudson Power Company, New York Title & Mortgage Company, Prudential Oil Corporation (chairman of board), and New York Post-Graduate Medical School and Hospital, in 1918 served as chairman of New York Club Committee of Federal Food Administration and as member of the Mayor's Committee on National Defense and of Motor Transport Corps in Washington, D C ; in 1923 was created a Knight Commander of the Order of St Gregory, with the Grand Cross of that order, and a Private Chamberlain of the Cape and Sword by Pope Pius XI, and the same year was created a Knight Commander of the Crown of Italv by the Italian Government, with his brother gave to Yale the Anthony N. Brady Memorial Foundation of the Medical School, of $1,000,000, his gifts also included the Elizabeth Jane Hamilton Brady Memorial, a Roman Catholic parochial school and home at Bernardsville, N J., and the Villa Victoria, a home for orphans and Italian nuns at Trenton, N J., a memorial to his second wife; owner of the Dixiana stock farm near Lexington, Ky ; had a summer home at Hamilton Farm, near Gladstone, N. J.; member Albany Society of New York and of its board of governors for many years; governor of the Essex Fox Hounds of Peapack, N. J.; member of Our Lady of Perpetual Help Roman Catholic Church, Bernardsville.
Married (1) March 4, 1905, in Albany, Elizabeth Jane, daughter of Andrew and Jessie Reed (Walker) Hamilton.
Children: Elizabeth Jane Hamilton, the wife of Frederick S. Moseley, Jr. (B.A. Harvard 1926); James Cox, Jr., '29; and Ruth. Mrs Brady was killed in a railroad accident October 3, 1912.
Married (2) October 14,19i4,at Monmouth Beach,N. J., Lady Victoria Mary Pery, daughter of Edmond Pery, Earl of Limerick, and Countess May Limerick, of Dromore Castle, Limerick, Ireland.
Children: Victoria Mary Pery and Genevieve. Mrs. Brady died December 26, 1918.
Married (3) October 2,1920, in London, Helen, daughter of John Timothy and Ellen (Mornssey) McMahon, of Flushing, N.Y., and sister of John T. McMahon, '26.
Death due to pneumonia.
Buried in St. Agnes Cemetery, Albany.
Survived by wife, son, four daughters, brother, and three sisters, Mabel Brady Garvan, the wife of Francis P. Garvan, '97, Marcia M. Brady Tucker, the wife of Carll Tucker, '04, and Mrs James C. Farrell, of Albany, N. Y.
His brother has established the James Cox Brady Memorial Fund of $500,000 for the benefit of the Yale School of Medicine.
http://mssa.library.yale.edu/obituary_record/1925_1952/1927-28.pdf
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