Identifier: financialgiantso00redm2 (find matches)
Title: Financial giants of America
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: Redmond, George F
Subjects: Capitalists and financiers
Publisher: Boston, Mass., The Stratford company
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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litical life of the State and Nation. He pos-sessed a genius for organization and finance, like that whichhis brother, the former United States Circuit Court Judge, hasfor the law. He has added lustre to the name of a dis-tinguished family. He was Rhode Islands ablest, most pro-gressive and distinguished citizen. Expressions of regret wereheard on all sides when the news of Colonel Colts deathbecame known in Rhode Island and elsewhere. The Colonel was a large trader in United States Rubbershares and often joined interests with Anthony N. Brady.The Brady-Colt holdings of rubber were large at times, run-ning around 75,000 shares and the two men were fast friends.Short sellers of United States Rubber on Colonel Colts deathdiscovered that they had not an easy road to fortune. Nocorporation, it is true, can afford to lose its biggest unit, butif he is a really big man, the probabilities are that he has builtup an organization which can guide the craft tolerably wellafter he has gone. (109)
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JOHN D. RYAN / The story of John D, Ryan is the story of Ana-conda Copper. He is chairman of its hoard ofdirectors and a mighty factor in its activities. His career was checked for over a year by aserious illness, hut he resumed operations with re-newed vigor as soon as his health permitted. He directed Air Craft production during thewar. His executive ahility and foresight showedthat ex-president Wilson had made a wise choice. r !:/ r^l /^^^ 12^ i JOHN D. RYAN 7 JOHN D. RYAN, chairman of the board of directors of theAnaconda Copper Mining Co., the president of the Mon-tana Power Co. and a director of aircraft production dur-ing the war, was born October 1 0, 1 864, at Hancock, Michigan. •His father was the discoverer of what are now the CopperRange Mines of the Lake Superior district. Although the sonof a miner, he never did a days mining in his life. He neverknew what it was to sleep in miners togs at the bottom ofthe shaft. His parents wanted him to go to college, but he preferre

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