Businessman. Brady was raised in Upstate New York. His first job was working in an Albany barber shop. Later, he owned a tea store that grew to include multiple branches. He invested heavily in the Albany Gas Light Company and soon owned many shares in larger New York City utility companies. He also acquired holdings in transportation stocks including the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company. At one time, he was the richest Catholic in the United States.  While in London, he died from indigestion and left an estate worth approximatlely 85,000,000 dollars.  He is an ancestor of President George Herbert Walker Bush’s Secretary of Treasury, Nicholas F. Brady.    (bio by: Thomas J  Fraser)  Family links:  Spouse:  Marcia Ann Myers Brady (1847 – 1921)*  Children:  Nicholas Frederic Brady (1878 – 1930)*  James Cox Brady (1882 – 1927)* *Calculated relationship