In May of 1892, the New York Tribune published a list of all the millionaires in the United States: Four in Albany, two in Schenectady, and twenty-four from Troy. Twenty-five if you include Lansingburgh, although not annexed by Troy until 1900. So during the Gilded Age, Troy had the most!

LANSINGBURGH

Edward Tracy

Malting, brewing, real estate investments.

NOTE: Sued the Troy and Lansingburgh Railroad Company to prevent them from erecting poles for an electric motor system on a street in Lansingburgh opposite his property. Won a temporary injection but was vacated. He was as a director of the United National Bank in 1890. Owned the Tracy & Russell Brewing Company in NYC in 1864. He was a well known bachelor to his friends and associates in Lansingburgh until his “wife” sued his estate after death claiming otherwise. It appears she did not win.

TROY

Est Ralph J Starks

Banking and real estate

NOTE: He was a first director of the National State Bank and president in 1852.

Est John J. Joslin

Manufacturing hemp, flax, and wool; lands in the........

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