Jonathan Bryan, Richmond financier and a member of the widely known Bryan family of Virginia, died early yesterday of a heart attack at his home here, Rothesay. He was 58 years old. Death came very suddenly after he had apparently rallied from a sharp attack of an ailment from which he had suffered intermittently for some years.
The funeral services will be held at 11 oclock Tuesday morning from Rothesay. Mr. Bryan will be buried in the family section of the Emmanuel Church Cemetery at Brookhill, Henrico County. The interment will be private. Services will be conducted by the Rev. Beverly D. Tucker of St. Pauls Episcopal Church and the Rev. Lewis Carter Harrison of Emmanuel Church.
Mr. Bryan had suffered from heart trouble for some time, friends said yesterday, but recently had shown improvement. He filled a social engagement Saturday night, with no evidence of illness. Shortly after he retired he called Mrs. Bryan and said he thought he was going to have an attack. Mrs. Bryan called Dr. Robert C. Bryan, a brother, who brought Dr. Alexander Brown with him to the Bryan home. Mr Bryan responded to treatment and fell asleep. The doctors warned Mrs. Bryan that the heart attack had been acute, and that Mr. Bryan should be kept under treatment and under the care of a nurse. While the physicians were gone to make arrangements for the nurse Mr. Bryan roused from his sleep, with a recurrence of the attack, and died. Death came about 2:30 in the morning.
Jonathan Bryan was the third son of Joseph Bryan, Richmond publisher, and Isobel Lamont Stewart Bryan. He was born at Brookhill, December 6, 1874. The other sons of Joseph Bryan are John Stewart Bryan, Dr. Robert C. Bryan, J. St. George Bryan, all of whom survive, and the late Thomas Pinckney Bryan.
The story of Jonathan Bryans life is almost the story of the Richmond financial world and real estate development for a third of a century. His business career started when he was a young man, 20 years of age, and during the succeeding years it grew until it included many far-flung interests.
As a boy Mr. Bryan attended Nolleys School in Richmond, and later McGuires. At the age of 17 he entered the University of Virginia, where he was active in student life. Not caring to graduate from the university, he left at the end of his third year, the spring of 1896, and took a position with the Richmond Locomotive Works, of which his father was president.
Three years late, when he was only 23, the locomotive company sent its young official to Helsingfors, Finland, to treat with Finnish railway financiers for an order of Richmond-built locomotives. Young Jonathans sales argument was successful, and the Finns placed an order. The firm then cabled its salesman to stay in Helsingfors and superintend the assembling of the locomotives and see that they went into service in proper condition. By his work he greatly impressed the Finnish officials, and made a number of life-long friends among them. In later years some of them visited the young man who had sold them Richmond locomotives, then a financier of many interests.
Jonathan Bryan kept his connection with the locomotive works until it was sold to the American Locomotive Company. Through his work in it he became connected with the Southern Railway Company, of which he was formerly a director.
He was president of the firm of Bryan, Kemp & Co., which was organized here in 1920 as an investment and brokerage firm. Through the Laburnam Realty Corporation, the Westover Hills Realty Corporation, and the Rothesay Realty Corporation, all of which he helped organize and served as president, and the Westview Land and Improvement Company, which he helped develop, Mr. Bryan exerted a large influence in the development of Richmond real estate and some of the finer residential districts of the City. The concerns which he was instrumental in starting were organized in the early 1920s.
Mr. Bryan was president of the Richmond Tractor Company, and was formerly vice-president of the Richmond-Ashland Railway Company. He was also president of the Richmond Forgings Corporation, and was associated with Bryan Brothers, an organization formed to handle part of the estate of Joseph Bryan.
Mr. Bryan was married to Mrs. Winifred Hayden in New York City in 1911, by the Rev. Percy Stickney Grant. There are no children.
During the World War President Wilson offered the post of Assistant Secretary of War to Mr. Bryan, but he was forced to decline by his extensive business connections.
While at the University of Virginia, he was noted for his great capacity for friendship, a capacity which he retained all through his life, and which endeared him to hundreds of friends and acquaintances. As a student he was a member of the Delta-Psi fraternity; the Eli Banana, Z Club and Thirteen Club, all honor societies, and now extinct society known as O. F. C. He served as manager of baseball in 94-95, and was elected manager of football for the following year, a post which he did not fill due to leaving the University.
Mr. Bryan was a member of the Commonwealth Club and the Country Club of Virginia. He was a former member of the Westmoreland Club.
During his lifetime Mr. Bryan was a devotee of golf, playing regularly. As a young man he also rode and swam a good deal. Two of his greatest pleasures were traveling and reading. Through his fondness for reading he developed a large private library, with volumes on all subjects, and his friends recall that his manner of reading was that of a student, rather than of a man reading for pleasure. Through study and discussion of the books he read, Jonathan Bryan established a reputation as an authority on many subjects, matching his authority as a man of business affairs.
Mr. Bryan was actively interested in gifts to the public, but he allowed his part to be known only in a few instances, friends recalled yesterday. Among the improvements to which he was instrumental in giving to the City is the fountain in Byrd Park Lake. Associated with him for this instance were Stuart Christian, Herbert Jackson and Henry E. Litchford. According to the story told by his friends, Mr. Bryan saw a fountain with changing colored lights during a trip through the South. He thought it would be a good idea to put one in the lake here and through his efforts it was done.
The Boulevard Bridge over the James River was part of the real estate development of Westover Hills. A. L. Adamson, E. D. T. Myers and other Richmonds were associated with Mr. Bryan in building this bridge, which furnished a new highway outlet South.
Published in the Richmond-Times Dispatch on January 16, 1933
The funeral services will be held at 11 oclock Tuesday morning from Rothesay. Mr. Bryan will be buried in the family section of the Emmanuel Church Cemetery at Brookhill, Henrico County. The interment will be private. Services will be conducted by the Rev. Beverly D. Tucker of St. Pauls Episcopal Church and the Rev. Lewis Carter Harrison of Emmanuel Church.
Mr. Bryan had suffered from heart trouble for some time, friends said yesterday, but recently had shown improvement. He filled a social engagement Saturday night, with no evidence of illness. Shortly after he retired he called Mrs. Bryan and said he thought he was going to have an attack. Mrs. Bryan called Dr. Robert C. Bryan, a brother, who brought Dr. Alexander Brown with him to the Bryan home. Mr Bryan responded to treatment and fell asleep. The doctors warned Mrs. Bryan that the heart attack had been acute, and that Mr. Bryan should be kept under treatment and under the care of a nurse. While the physicians were gone to make arrangements for the nurse Mr. Bryan roused from his sleep, with a recurrence of the attack, and died. Death came about 2:30 in the morning.
Jonathan Bryan was the third son of Joseph Bryan, Richmond publisher, and Isobel Lamont Stewart Bryan. He was born at Brookhill, December 6, 1874. The other sons of Joseph Bryan are John Stewart Bryan, Dr. Robert C. Bryan, J. St. George Bryan, all of whom survive, and the late Thomas Pinckney Bryan.
The story of Jonathan Bryans life is almost the story of the Richmond financial world and real estate development for a third of a century. His business career started when he was a young man, 20 years of age, and during the succeeding years it grew until it included many far-flung interests.
As a boy Mr. Bryan attended Nolleys School in Richmond, and later McGuires. At the age of 17 he entered the University of Virginia, where he was active in student life. Not caring to graduate from the university, he left at the end of his third year, the spring of 1896, and took a position with the Richmond Locomotive Works, of which his father was president.
Three years late, when he was only 23, the locomotive company sent its young official to Helsingfors, Finland, to treat with Finnish railway financiers for an order of Richmond-built locomotives. Young Jonathans sales argument was successful, and the Finns placed an order. The firm then cabled its salesman to stay in Helsingfors and superintend the assembling of the locomotives and see that they went into service in proper condition. By his work he greatly impressed the Finnish officials, and made a number of life-long friends among them. In later years some of them visited the young man who had sold them Richmond locomotives, then a financier of many interests.
Jonathan Bryan kept his connection with the locomotive works until it was sold to the American Locomotive Company. Through his work in it he became connected with the Southern Railway Company, of which he was formerly a director.
He was president of the firm of Bryan, Kemp & Co., which was organized here in 1920 as an investment and brokerage firm. Through the Laburnam Realty Corporation, the Westover Hills Realty Corporation, and the Rothesay Realty Corporation, all of which he helped organize and served as president, and the Westview Land and Improvement Company, which he helped develop, Mr. Bryan exerted a large influence in the development of Richmond real estate and some of the finer residential districts of the City. The concerns which he was instrumental in starting were organized in the early 1920s.
Mr. Bryan was president of the Richmond Tractor Company, and was formerly vice-president of the Richmond-Ashland Railway Company. He was also president of the Richmond Forgings Corporation, and was associated with Bryan Brothers, an organization formed to handle part of the estate of Joseph Bryan.
Mr. Bryan was married to Mrs. Winifred Hayden in New York City in 1911, by the Rev. Percy Stickney Grant. There are no children.
During the World War President Wilson offered the post of Assistant Secretary of War to Mr. Bryan, but he was forced to decline by his extensive business connections.
While at the University of Virginia, he was noted for his great capacity for friendship, a capacity which he retained all through his life, and which endeared him to hundreds of friends and acquaintances. As a student he was a member of the Delta-Psi fraternity; the Eli Banana, Z Club and Thirteen Club, all honor societies, and now extinct society known as O. F. C. He served as manager of baseball in 94-95, and was elected manager of football for the following year, a post which he did not fill due to leaving the University.
Mr. Bryan was a member of the Commonwealth Club and the Country Club of Virginia. He was a former member of the Westmoreland Club.
During his lifetime Mr. Bryan was a devotee of golf, playing regularly. As a young man he also rode and swam a good deal. Two of his greatest pleasures were traveling and reading. Through his fondness for reading he developed a large private library, with volumes on all subjects, and his friends recall that his manner of reading was that of a student, rather than of a man reading for pleasure. Through study and discussion of the books he read, Jonathan Bryan established a reputation as an authority on many subjects, matching his authority as a man of business affairs.
Mr. Bryan was actively interested in gifts to the public, but he allowed his part to be known only in a few instances, friends recalled yesterday. Among the improvements to which he was instrumental in giving to the City is the fountain in Byrd Park Lake. Associated with him for this instance were Stuart Christian, Herbert Jackson and Henry E. Litchford. According to the story told by his friends, Mr. Bryan saw a fountain with changing colored lights during a trip through the South. He thought it would be a good idea to put one in the lake here and through his efforts it was done.
The Boulevard Bridge over the James River was part of the real estate development of Westover Hills. A. L. Adamson, E. D. T. Myers and other Richmonds were associated with Mr. Bryan in building this bridge, which furnished a new highway outlet South.
Published in the Richmond-Times Dispatch on January 16, 1933
Jonathan Bryan, Richmond financier and a member of the widely known Bryan family of Virginia, died early yesterday of a heart attack at his home here, Rothesay. He was 58 years old. Death came very suddenly after he had apparently rallied from a sharp attack of an ailment from which he had suffered intermittently for some years.
The funeral services will be held at 11 oclock Tuesday morning from Rothesay. Mr. Bryan will be buried in the family section of the Emmanuel Church Cemetery at Brookhill, Henrico County. The interment will be private. Services will be conducted by the Rev. Beverly D. Tucker of St. Pauls Episcopal Church and the Rev. Lewis Carter Harrison of Emmanuel Church.
Mr. Bryan had suffered from heart trouble for some time, friends said yesterday, but recently had shown improvement. He filled a social engagement Saturday night, with no evidence of illness. Shortly after he retired he called Mrs. Bryan and said he thought he was going to have an attack. Mrs. Bryan called Dr. Robert C. Bryan, a brother, who brought Dr. Alexander Brown with him to the Bryan home. Mr Bryan responded to treatment and fell asleep. The doctors warned Mrs. Bryan that the heart attack had been acute, and that Mr. Bryan should be kept under treatment and under the care of a nurse. While the physicians were gone to make arrangements for the nurse Mr. Bryan roused from his sleep, with a recurrence of the attack, and died. Death came about 2:30 in the morning.
Jonathan Bryan was the third son of Joseph Bryan, Richmond publisher, and Isobel Lamont Stewart Bryan. He was born at Brookhill, December 6, 1874. The other sons of Joseph Bryan are John Stewart Bryan, Dr. Robert C. Bryan, J. St. George Bryan, all of whom survive, and the late Thomas Pinckney Bryan.
The story of Jonathan Bryans life is almost the story of the Richmond financial world and real estate development for a third of a century. His business career started when he was a young man, 20 years of age, and during the succeeding years it grew until it included many far-flung interests.
As a boy Mr. Bryan attended Nolleys School in Richmond, and later McGuires. At the age of 17 he entered the University of Virginia, where he was active in student life. Not caring to graduate from the university, he left at the end of his third year, the spring of 1896, and took a position with the Richmond Locomotive Works, of which his father was president.
Three years late, when he was only 23, the locomotive company sent its young official to Helsingfors, Finland, to treat with Finnish railway financiers for an order of Richmond-built locomotives. Young Jonathans sales argument was successful, and the Finns placed an order. The firm then cabled its salesman to stay in Helsingfors and superintend the assembling of the locomotives and see that they went into service in proper condition. By his work he greatly impressed the Finnish officials, and made a number of life-long friends among them. In later years some of them visited the young man who had sold them Richmond locomotives, then a financier of many interests.
Jonathan Bryan kept his connection with the locomotive works until it was sold to the American Locomotive Company. Through his work in it he became connected with the Southern Railway Company, of which he was formerly a director.
He was president of the firm of Bryan, Kemp & Co., which was organized here in 1920 as an investment and brokerage firm. Through the Laburnam Realty Corporation, the Westover Hills Realty Corporation, and the Rothesay Realty Corporation, all of which he helped organize and served as president, and the Westview Land and Improvement Company, which he helped develop, Mr. Bryan exerted a large influence in the development of Richmond real estate and some of the finer residential districts of the City. The concerns which he was instrumental in starting were organized in the early 1920s.
Mr. Bryan was president of the Richmond Tractor Company, and was formerly vice-president of the Richmond-Ashland Railway Company. He was also president of the Richmond Forgings Corporation, and was associated with Bryan Brothers, an organization formed to handle part of the estate of Joseph Bryan.
Mr. Bryan was married to Mrs. Winifred Hayden in New York City in 1911, by the Rev. Percy Stickney Grant. There are no children.
During the World War President Wilson offered the post of Assistant Secretary of War to Mr. Bryan, but he was forced to decline by his extensive business connections.
While at the University of Virginia, he was noted for his great capacity for friendship, a capacity which he retained all through his life, and which endeared him to hundreds of friends and acquaintances. As a student he was a member of the Delta-Psi fraternity; the Eli Banana, Z Club and Thirteen Club, all honor societies, and now extinct society known as O. F. C. He served as manager of baseball in 94-95, and was elected manager of football for the following year, a post which he did not fill due to leaving the University.
Mr. Bryan was a member of the Commonwealth Club and the Country Club of Virginia. He was a former member of the Westmoreland Club.
During his lifetime Mr. Bryan was a devotee of golf, playing regularly. As a young man he also rode and swam a good deal. Two of his greatest pleasures were traveling and reading. Through his fondness for reading he developed a large private library, with volumes on all subjects, and his friends recall that his manner of reading was that of a student, rather than of a man reading for pleasure. Through study and discussion of the books he read, Jonathan Bryan established a reputation as an authority on many subjects, matching his authority as a man of business affairs.
Mr. Bryan was actively interested in gifts to the public, but he allowed his part to be known only in a few instances, friends recalled yesterday. Among the improvements to which he was instrumental in giving to the City is the fountain in Byrd Park Lake. Associated with him for this instance were Stuart Christian, Herbert Jackson and Henry E. Litchford. According to the story told by his friends, Mr. Bryan saw a fountain with changing colored lights during a trip through the South. He thought it would be a good idea to put one in the lake here and through his efforts it was done.
The Boulevard Bridge over the James River was part of the real estate development of Westover Hills. A. L. Adamson, E. D. T. Myers and other Richmonds were associated with Mr. Bryan in building this bridge, which furnished a new highway outlet South.
Published in the Richmond-Times Dispatch on January 16, 1933
The funeral services will be held at 11 oclock Tuesday morning from Rothesay. Mr. Bryan will be buried in the family section of the Emmanuel Church Cemetery at Brookhill, Henrico County. The interment will be private. Services will be conducted by the Rev. Beverly D. Tucker of St. Pauls Episcopal Church and the Rev. Lewis Carter Harrison of Emmanuel Church.
Mr. Bryan had suffered from heart trouble for some time, friends said yesterday, but recently had shown improvement. He filled a social engagement Saturday night, with no evidence of illness. Shortly after he retired he called Mrs. Bryan and said he thought he was going to have an attack. Mrs. Bryan called Dr. Robert C. Bryan, a brother, who brought Dr. Alexander Brown with him to the Bryan home. Mr Bryan responded to treatment and fell asleep. The doctors warned Mrs. Bryan that the heart attack had been acute, and that Mr. Bryan should be kept under treatment and under the care of a nurse. While the physicians were gone to make arrangements for the nurse Mr. Bryan roused from his sleep, with a recurrence of the attack, and died. Death came about 2:30 in the morning.
Jonathan Bryan was the third son of Joseph Bryan, Richmond publisher, and Isobel Lamont Stewart Bryan. He was born at Brookhill, December 6, 1874. The other sons of Joseph Bryan are John Stewart Bryan, Dr. Robert C. Bryan, J. St. George Bryan, all of whom survive, and the late Thomas Pinckney Bryan.
The story of Jonathan Bryans life is almost the story of the Richmond financial world and real estate development for a third of a century. His business career started when he was a young man, 20 years of age, and during the succeeding years it grew until it included many far-flung interests.
As a boy Mr. Bryan attended Nolleys School in Richmond, and later McGuires. At the age of 17 he entered the University of Virginia, where he was active in student life. Not caring to graduate from the university, he left at the end of his third year, the spring of 1896, and took a position with the Richmond Locomotive Works, of which his father was president.
Three years late, when he was only 23, the locomotive company sent its young official to Helsingfors, Finland, to treat with Finnish railway financiers for an order of Richmond-built locomotives. Young Jonathans sales argument was successful, and the Finns placed an order. The firm then cabled its salesman to stay in Helsingfors and superintend the assembling of the locomotives and see that they went into service in proper condition. By his work he greatly impressed the Finnish officials, and made a number of life-long friends among them. In later years some of them visited the young man who had sold them Richmond locomotives, then a financier of many interests.
Jonathan Bryan kept his connection with the locomotive works until it was sold to the American Locomotive Company. Through his work in it he became connected with the Southern Railway Company, of which he was formerly a director.
He was president of the firm of Bryan, Kemp & Co., which was organized here in 1920 as an investment and brokerage firm. Through the Laburnam Realty Corporation, the Westover Hills Realty Corporation, and the Rothesay Realty Corporation, all of which he helped organize and served as president, and the Westview Land and Improvement Company, which he helped develop, Mr. Bryan exerted a large influence in the development of Richmond real estate and some of the finer residential districts of the City. The concerns which he was instrumental in starting were organized in the early 1920s.
Mr. Bryan was president of the Richmond Tractor Company, and was formerly vice-president of the Richmond-Ashland Railway Company. He was also president of the Richmond Forgings Corporation, and was associated with Bryan Brothers, an organization formed to handle part of the estate of Joseph Bryan.
Mr. Bryan was married to Mrs. Winifred Hayden in New York City in 1911, by the Rev. Percy Stickney Grant. There are no children.
During the World War President Wilson offered the post of Assistant Secretary of War to Mr. Bryan, but he was forced to decline by his extensive business connections.
While at the University of Virginia, he was noted for his great capacity for friendship, a capacity which he retained all through his life, and which endeared him to hundreds of friends and acquaintances. As a student he was a member of the Delta-Psi fraternity; the Eli Banana, Z Club and Thirteen Club, all honor societies, and now extinct society known as O. F. C. He served as manager of baseball in 94-95, and was elected manager of football for the following year, a post which he did not fill due to leaving the University.
Mr. Bryan was a member of the Commonwealth Club and the Country Club of Virginia. He was a former member of the Westmoreland Club.
During his lifetime Mr. Bryan was a devotee of golf, playing regularly. As a young man he also rode and swam a good deal. Two of his greatest pleasures were traveling and reading. Through his fondness for reading he developed a large private library, with volumes on all subjects, and his friends recall that his manner of reading was that of a student, rather than of a man reading for pleasure. Through study and discussion of the books he read, Jonathan Bryan established a reputation as an authority on many subjects, matching his authority as a man of business affairs.
Mr. Bryan was actively interested in gifts to the public, but he allowed his part to be known only in a few instances, friends recalled yesterday. Among the improvements to which he was instrumental in giving to the City is the fountain in Byrd Park Lake. Associated with him for this instance were Stuart Christian, Herbert Jackson and Henry E. Litchford. According to the story told by his friends, Mr. Bryan saw a fountain with changing colored lights during a trip through the South. He thought it would be a good idea to put one in the lake here and through his efforts it was done.
The Boulevard Bridge over the James River was part of the real estate development of Westover Hills. A. L. Adamson, E. D. T. Myers and other Richmonds were associated with Mr. Bryan in building this bridge, which furnished a new highway outlet South.
Published in the Richmond-Times Dispatch on January 16, 1933
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