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Thomas Fortune Ryan (October 17, 1851 – November 23, 1928) was an American tobacco, insurance and transportation magnate. Although he lived in New York City for much of his adult career, Ryan was perhaps the greatest benefactor of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Richmond in the decades before the Great Depression.
Thomas Fortune Ryan was an American financier who played a key role in numerous mergers and business reorganizations that took place about the turn of the 20th century, including those resulting in the creation of the Metropolitan Street Railway Company and the American Tobacco Company.
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Author tells about the millionaire, Thomas Fortune Ryan, and about some of his descendants. When Thomas Fortune died in 1928, he left an estate of $141,824,497.
8 de abr. de 2019 · When he died, he was the 10th wealthiest man in America with a fortune of more than $200 million that after tax left $140 million between his five surviving sons. He was born a Protestant and his ancestors were Anglo-Irish but he became a Catholic through his wife, a devout Catholic.
23 de sept. de 2014 · Gracias a él, conoció Sorolla a Thomas Fortune Ryan, su segundo gran mecenas americano, que le encargó su retrato y que con posterioridad atesoró más de una veintena de pinturas del valenciano, dedicadas sobre todo a jardines andaluces y a la imagen típica de España en el exterior.
19 de ene. de 2005 · Thomas Fortune Ryan was the son of Virginia’s Piedmont and a product of the Reconstruction-era South. There is no comprehensive biography on him, and because he was highly...
27 de dic. de 2023 · El otro gran mecenas del valenciano fue Thomas Fortune Ryan, un magnate americano a quien Sorolla retrató en 1913. Gran filántropo, en su representación quiso destacar, además de esa labor caritativa, su amor por el arte mediante la presencia en primer plano de una pequeña escultura –recurso también del pintor y la época–.
