Diamond Jim Brady
James Buchanan " Diamond Jim " Brady ( born August 12, 1856 in New York City; † April 13, 1917 in Atlantic City, New Jersey) was an American business leaders, entrepreneurs and self-made millionaire who to because of his tendency extravagance " Diamond Jim " was called and had a nearly 40-year love affair for the actress and singer Lillian Russell.
Life
Climb to multi-millionaire
Brady, a son easier saloon owner, was already active as a boy as a page at the New York Central Railroad and met the owner of the Railway Company, Cornelius Vanderbilt, who appointed him to be his assistant shortly before his death in 1877. After that, he worked in the management of Manning, Maxwell and Moore in Stratford, a company for railway and industrial material, and provided with skilful shops for a doubling of the company's turnover.
Through his subsequent work as Director General of the Fox Pressed Steel Car Company, he came to the first wealth. His fortune grew by more business through which he sold to the growing railway companies of Jay Gould, Edward Henry Harriman, JP Morgan, and Leland Stanford, among other accessories and spare parts. In addition, he -actuated successful investment transactions on the New York Stock Exchange on Wall Street and possessed at the beginning of the 20th century a fortune of 15 million U.S. dollars.
In addition, he was from 1902 until his death in 1917, Vice President of the Standard Car Company and next President of the Independent Pneumatic Tool Company, Director of the United Injector Company and Consolidated Safety Valve Company and Vice President of the Keith Car & Manufacturing Company and Osgood -Bradley Car Company.
Brady believed that he would show his success and was the most expensive suits and a collection of expensive jewelry, which led to his nickname " Diamond Jim ". He was also a regular guest at the poker and baccarat tables at the Waldorf - Astoria. According to him, the Annual Diamond Jim Brady is named, a poker event held annually.
He was also a regular visitor to the places of entertainment and night clubs of Broadway and known there as a dancer and a generous tipper. Among his extravagances was provided with a clock jewels worth 9000 U.S. dollars, an umbrella provided with diamonds and equipped with a diamond glasses for his dog to the value of 8500 U.S. dollars.
He was also famous as a gourmet, but more than Gourmand, which often ordered consuming, dozen -course meals. Brady, who never drank alcohol, and was never married, maintained a nearly forty-year romantic love affair with the actress and singer Lilian Russell.
Film version of his life and death circumstances
1935 was loosely based on Brady's life movie Diamond Jim with Edward Arnold in the title role. This Brady told by his doctor that he will die if he does not keep a diet. Brady decides, however, that a life without gluttony is not worth living and continues to be to eat at a great feast to death.
The true Brady, however, died in a myocardial infarction, but also suffered from Bright 's disease, coronary heart disease, diabetes, gallstones, hypertension, inflammation of the prostate as well as persistent, recurrent urinary tract infections. Because of urinary tract infections he was treated at the hospital of the Johns Hopkins University, the University of leaving a portion of its assets, and is the namesake of the local Brady Urological Institute.