Born in Albany, New York, the son of industrialist Anthony N. Brady, he graduated from Yale University in 1899. He was raised an Episcopalian but converted to Catholicism. Nicholas Brady and his brother James Cox Brady oversaw a vast business empire built by their father. James Brady died in 1927 and Nicholas continued running the businesses. He was Chairman of the Board of Directors of New York Edison Co. and a director of Anaconda Copper Mining Co., Westinghouse Electric, National City Bank, Union Carbide, plus numerous other companies in the United States and Japan whose activities were primarily in utilities. The Brady brothers provided substantial funds to enable Walter Chrysler to take over the ailing Maxwell Motor Company and to acquire Chrysler Corporation. Nicholas Brady would be
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| - Born in Albany, New York, the son of industrialist Anthony N. Brady, he graduated from Yale University in 1899. He was raised an Episcopalian but converted to Catholicism. Nicholas Brady and his brother James Cox Brady oversaw a vast business empire built by their father. James Brady died in 1927 and Nicholas continued running the businesses. He was Chairman of the Board of Directors of New York Edison Co. and a director of Anaconda Copper Mining Co., Westinghouse Electric, National City Bank, Union Carbide, plus numerous other companies in the United States and Japan whose activities were primarily in utilities. The Brady brothers provided substantial funds to enable Walter Chrysler to take over the ailing Maxwell Motor Company and to acquire Chrysler Corporation. Nicholas Brady would be
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| - Born in Albany, New York, the son of industrialist Anthony N. Brady, he graduated from Yale University in 1899. He was raised an Episcopalian but converted to Catholicism. Nicholas Brady and his brother James Cox Brady oversaw a vast business empire built by their father. James Brady died in 1927 and Nicholas continued running the businesses. He was Chairman of the Board of Directors of New York Edison Co. and a director of Anaconda Copper Mining Co., Westinghouse Electric, National City Bank, Union Carbide, plus numerous other companies in the United States and Japan whose activities were primarily in utilities. The Brady brothers provided substantial funds to enable Walter Chrysler to take over the ailing Maxwell Motor Company and to acquire Chrysler Corporation. Nicholas Brady would be a lifelong member of Chrysler's Board of Directors. Nicholas Frederic Brady married Genevieve Garvan, sister of Francis Patrick Garvan. The couple had no children. A devout Roman Catholic, she was a Dame of the Holy Sepulchre, holder of the Cross Pro Ecclesia et Pontifice, founder of the Carroll Club ("for Catholic business girls"), 1933 receipient of University of Notre Dame's Laetare Medal as the most notable lay Catholic in America, Board Chairman of the Girls Scouts of America and a Vice-President of the Welfare Council of New York. Nicholas Brady was a lay adviser to the Roman Catholic Church and was the second American to be named Papal Chamberlain. In 1926 he was made a Papal Duke. Brady and his wife lived at 910 Fifth Avenue in New York City but also built a large Tudor Elizabethan mansion on an estate on the North Shore of Long Island, New York that was completed by 1920 and known as "Inisfada." Following his death in 1930, his widow gifted the Estate to the Society of Jesus.[1] Nicholas Frederic Brady is buried in a crypt beneath an altar in the main chapel at the Jesuit Novitiate at Wernersville, Pennsylvania, an institution to which he had gifted more than 2 million dollars. Genevieve Brady remarried to the Irish Free State Minister to the Vatican, William J. Babington Macaulay. She died in 1938 and was buried beside Nicholas.[2]
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