Benjamin Nathan was born 20 Dec 1813 in New York, to Seixas Isaac Mendes Nathan (1785-1852) & Sarah Seixas Mendes (1791-1834).
(Images courtesy of Josh Nathan-Kazis)
Benjamin Nathan: . He was elected a member of the New York Stock Exchange in 1836, became its vice-president in 1851, and remained an active member until his death. For a number of years he was a director of the Chicago & Northwestern Railroad and of the Ninth Avenue Street Railway of New York; he was also a member of the first board of directors of the Jews' Hospital (now Mount Sinai Hospital) in 1852, its vice-president in 1855, and president from 1856 to 1870. In 1849 Benjamin Nathan was appointed aide-de-camp, with the title of colonel, to Governor Hamilton Fish of New York. He was a member of the Union and Union League clubs, of the St. Nicholas Society, and was president of the Shearith Israel congregation. Two sons of Benjamin Nathan, Harmon (b. 1843) and Frederick (b. 1844), were members of the Seventh Regiment, New York State Militia, which volunteered, in 1863, into the Union army; they served with the regiment during the riots in New York in July, 1863. Both Harmon (since 1864) and Frederick (since 1869) are members of the New York Stock Exchange; the latter has been a director of the Home for Aged and Infirm Hebrews for twenty-one years, and honorary secretary for over seven years.
He was elected a member of the New York Stock Exchange in 1836, became its vice-president in 1851.
He served as a director of the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad and the Ninth Avenue Street Railway. He also served on the first Board of Directors for Jews" Hospital.
He was also President of Shearith Israel.
In 1849 he was promoted to colonel and named aide-de-camp to New York State Governor Hamilton Fish. Nathan's wife Emily Grace Hendricks-Nathan died in 1879.
He was bludgeoned to death while he was writing out a $10,000 check. There were a few small diamonds missing and some jewelry. There were several rewards posted, the stock exchanged and his wife both made reward requests to the public in the local newspapers. His son Washington was under suspicion for many years but was cleared later.
old Nathan house photo
photographer unknown, from the collection of the Museum of the City of New York
There are endless newspaper articles on this murder so I am only going to post a few links.
Det. Nathan Thomas Byrne's lived and breathed this case until his death
Emily died in 1879 and again in her obituary they discuss her husband murder.
1880 Frederick Nathan gets married
There were several confessions for criminals trying to strike up deals, but none panned out.
It was said Washington squandered his inheritance and he also so the end of a barrel of a gun that put a bullet in his head but he survived. here's the article.
He drank too much and had too many women and it came to a halt in Apr 1879 with a bullet in his temple. He later dies 25 Jul 1892 in Dover, England.
What a story, I found the first mention of this in a book I ordered from Amazon called Undisclosed Files of the Police Case's from the Archives of the NYPD.
Here's a YouTube mentions some of this story and other unsolved stories.
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