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August Belmont Sr.




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August Belmont

As it must to all men, Death came to August Belmont, famed sportsman, financier, recognized as the leading turf man in the U. S. An inflammation in his right arm bred blood-poisoning. He died in his Manhattan home after an illness of 36 hours, was buried in the family plot at Newport, R.I.

August Belmont was born in 1853. His father, August Belmont, a Prussian Jew, came to the U. S. in the diplomatic service, became a representative of the Rothschilds (European bankers), founded the banking house, August Belmont & Co., made a vast fortune, kept a racing stable. The second August Belmont was known rather as a turfman than as a financier or railroad director. He put the horse before the locomotive. He is credited with having saved thoroughbred racing when it was at its lowest ebb in the East, after the repeal of the racing law in New York State. He was Chairman of ihe Jockey Club, founder of Belmont Park (famed Long Island track), owner of many celebrated horses—Rock Sand, Norman III, Tracery, Man o' War, Ladkin. These swift beasts wore his famed colors—scarlet, maroon sleeves, black cap—to victory. His greatest regret was that he sold Man o' War to S. D. Riddle, under whose ownership he developed into the "fastest horse since Pegasus." Last fall (TIME, Oct. 6) his fleet Ladkin defeated Epinard, the touted French colt, at the Aqueduct race course.

In English county meets Mr. Belmont was praised by grooms and squires alike for his skill at point-to-point riding. He played polo until injured in 1911, when his pony stepped in a mole-hole, and severely threw him. As a Harvard sprinter in the early 70's, he introduced the wearing of steel spikes in cinder track meets.

In business he gave attention to the minutest details of every enterprise. His adroitness in pickiing up stray pins was so startling that his office boys were instructed to see that there were none about when important conferences pended, since his zeal for pin-picking distracted his mind from other topics. Twelve years after the death of his first wife (née Elizabeth Hamilton Morgan), he married Eleanor Robson, actress. Her wedding cut short the engagement of her theatrical company. With characteristic generosity, Mr. Belmont paid every member of the troupe a year's salary.

In the War, he took a commission as major in the U. S. flying corps. He befriended many charitable organizations and churches, presented the Chapel of St. Saviour to the Cathedral of St. John the Divine. In all that he did there was a quality of canny vision, of testy self-will. His astuteness was reflected in his arrogant, slightly clouded, Mongolian eyes; his hunger for life in his red and heavy lips which, in later life, he concealed with a mustache.

Said The New York Times: "His was a life richly colored and abundantly lived. Never again, in all likelihood, can a single mortal span cover so much that is vital and picturesque. . . ."



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August Belmont

original name August Schönberg.

 born Dec. 8, 1816, Alzey, Rhenish Prussia [now Germany] died Nov. 24, 1890, New York City

U.S. banker and diplomat, founder in 1837 of the banking house of August Belmont & Company, in New York City.

At 14 he entered the banking house of the Rothschilds at Frankfurt am Main and later transferred to the Naples office. In 1837 he moved to New York and opened a small office on Wall Street, where he served as American agent for the Rothschilds and laid the foundations for his own banking house.  

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The King of Fifth Avenue: The Fortunes of August Belmont

Part 1

Beginning of excerpt from The King of Fifth Avenue: The Fortunes of August Belmont:

"The Civil War was over.

Just before the last Presidential election, Mr. A. Belmont...made a public offer to bet $10,000 that, if Mr. Lincoln should be re-elected, the war would outlast his second term, The New York Times later would gloat. "What does Mr. B. think about the matter now?"

Ten hours and fifteen minutes after the flag was raised at Fort Sumter, Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth at Ford's Theater in Washington.

Seward, at home in bed, was also attacked.

Rumors of a conspiracy spread, and the incredible story again surfaced that August had been a member of a plot to kill the President. An anonymous letter sent from New York to Stanton claimed that "General McClellan, A. Belmont, Fernando Wood, Charles H. Haswell [the designer of the first steam launch], and Jeremiah Larocque [one of Barlow's law partners], were all cognizant of the conspiracy to murder President Lincoln, yourself, and Secretary Seward. These parties I learn through a servant in Belmont's employ were all together at a supper at Belmont's house with J. Wilkes Booth in November last."... [The naive anonymous writer erroneously assumed that Stanton was not part of the conspiracy.]

August, as chairman of the Democratic National Committee, was an obvious target for such rumors. He openly, frequently, and intensely deplored what seemed to be the Republicans' attempt to gut the Constitution: Lincoln's trust in Stanton and Stanton's arbitrary exercise of power. The military censorship. The control of the telegraph wires. The gagging of newspaperspers. The suppression of honest dissent. The promiscuous accusations of treason and the Draconian policies such accusations justified. The illegal arrests and the prisoners jailed without being charged. The dishonest tactics used in the election. The centralizing of power in Washington and the stranglehold on Washington by the Republicans.

Like many others August believed that the Republicans, having been returned to the White House, would dismantle the Republic and establish a tyranny.

So if August were party to a conspiracy, his motives--although hard to understand with hindsight--would have been patriotic. The situation seemed desperate and required desperate remedies.

But there were competing theories of other conspiracies (one implicating Stanton himself in the assassination). And the evidence against August is meager and inconclusive. The diary entry by McClellan's aide proves nothing; and the person who wrote the anonymous letter to Stanton may have wished merely to make trouble for August. Anonymous accusations can be subtle weapons for revenge, and August had many enemies--some of whom seemed to find in the tragedy of the President's assassination reason to rejoice in the effect it might have on August.

"There are hopeful signs that the community may be ready at last," said Strong a few days after the assassination, "for action against its Barlows, Larocgues, Belmonts."

True or not, the rumors branded August. Many people believed that he had led the conspiracy, and this belief forever after shadowed him and affected how he was viewed in public and private life. To some he was a hero, the defender of the Republic; to others he was a traitor. The rumor vested in August a secret and far-reaching power that grew in the public's imagination as the specifics of the rumor were blurred by time-- until August seemed to loom over the history of the nation." -----End of excerpt from The King of Fifth Avenue: The Fortunes of August Belmont, By David Black

Part 2

Although August Belmont maintained that he was a distant and poor relation of the Rothschild brothers. There were rumors circulating New York society that he was a bastard of one of the Rothschild brothers.

Belmont's mother was named Fredericka Elsass from Mannheim, Germany. She was 24 years old when she married Simon Belmont of Alzey, who was a year younger than his bride. They were married in 1813.

"She had dark hair, striking large, elongated, almost Oriental eyes and once was described as being 'just as beautiful as she was charming and kind.' Her dowry of 12,000 florins was high. Her parents were satisfied with their new son-in-law. He was modern and aggressive; he did not wear a beard; and he had candid eyes that looked boldly around his world. He was not an old ghetto Jew who ducked his head and shaded his glance for fear of provoking Gentiles; on the other hand he was not an assimilated German. "

If her parents were satisfied with Simon Belmont they would have been ecstatic with any one of the Rothschild brothers. In March of 1813 there were only two Rothschild sons eligible for marriage. The youngest, James Rothschild was nineteen. Carl Rothschild was twenty-five, a year older than Fredericka.

August Belmont was born on December 8, 1813 which puts conception in March of that same year. If one of the five Rothschild brothers was the father the question is which one. Which son had the opportunity.

During March of 1813, the Rothschild sons were involved in a massive smuggling operation on behalf of Britain in it's quest to defeat Napoleon. The brothers smuggled British gold buillion through France, under Napoleon's nose where it was used to finance Wellington's army- the army that would ultimately defeat Napoleon at the decisive battle at Waterloo.

Consider the following excerpt from The Rothschilds: A Family Portrait , By Frederic Morton

"...In the space of a few hundred hours Mayer's youngest [James] had not only gotten the English gold rolling through France, but conjured a fiscal mirage that took in Napoleon himself. A teen-age Rothschild tricked the imperial government into sanctioning the very process that helped to ruin it. What had happened to Bethmann Brothers would now happen to an empire.

The family machine began to hum. Nathan sent big shipments of British guineas, Portuguese gold ounces, French napoleons d'or (often freshly minted in London) across the Channel. From the coast James saw them to Paris and secretly transmuted the metal into bills on certain Spanish bankers. South of the capital Kalmann [Carl] materialized, took over the bills, blurred into a thousand shadowed canyons along the Pyrenees-and reappeared, Wellington's receipts in hand. Salomon was everywhere, trouble-shooting, making sure the transit points were diffuse and obscure enough not to disturb either the French delusion or the British guinea rate. Amschel stayed in Frankfurt and helped father Mayer to staff headquarters.

The French did catch a few whiffs of the truth. Sometimes the suspicious could be prosperously purged of their suspicion. The police chief of Calais, for example, suddenly was able to live in such distracting luxury that he found it difficult to patrol the shoreline thoroughly. On the other hand, the commissioner of the Paris police proposed more than once that young James be arrested. But the protection of the finance ministry proved stronger.

While Napoleon struggled his might away in the Russian winter, there passed through France itself a gold vein to the army staving in the Empire's back door.

Soon the Rothschilds became England's lifeline not only to Wellington but also to her allies. During the final years of the Napoleonic war, Britain appropriated immense subsidies for Austria, Prussia and Russia. Yet she had no convenient means with which to effect payment. The shipping of bullion involved a prohibitive risk. Issuing single huge drafts on the British treasury would ruin the sterling rate. John Herries, the Exchequer officer in charge of foreign financing, knew one sure answer: let Nathan [Rothschild] do it.

Nathan and his brothers did it by operating simultaneously from their variously shifting bases. Between them, Mayer and boys established the first great international clearinghouse. They expedited most of the fifteen million pounds Britain advanced to her friends. With so light a touch were these stupendous transactions juggled, with such soundless grace, that the sterling rate never suffered a dent. The only perceptible commotion was the abacuses clicking in the counting houses. To this day the Rothschild commissions are unknown and incalculable." - End of excerpt from The Rothschilds: A Family Portrait , By Frederic Morton page 47.

The Rothschild sons were involved in financing Wellington from 1811 until Napoleon's defeat in 1815. During this time it was Carl that did most of arduous road travelling. Carl was most experienced with this aspect of the business ever since his father's health began deteriorating.

From Count Corti's The Rise of the House of Rothschild:

"Meyer Amschel was often sent to the elector by Buderus to convey accounts or other information. These seven day journeys in bad coaches over rough roads, with the constant risk of falling into the hands of the enemy, with the letters with which he had been entrusted, came to be felt as exceedingly burdensome by Meyer Amschel in the course of time. He was not more than sixty-four years old, but his health had latterly suffered from the extraordinary demands made upon the chief of the extensive business house. Henceforth he generally left these journeys to the north to his son Kallmann (or Carl), as his two eldest sons, Amschel and Solomon, were fully occupied at the head office in Frankfort.

These journeys had now to be very frequently undertaken...."-page 55.

So Carl, until he finally settled in the Naples branch, was the family schlepper. Of all of the Rothschild brothers it was he who had the opportunity to father Belmont. Carl was a contemporary of Fredericka being but a year older than she. Did Carl Rothschild possess the audacity to seduce the beautiful bride of his distant relative?

We do know that a child was born to Fredericka. A child who did not resemble her husband Simon. A child who did, however,resemble Simon's distant yet illustrious relative and business associate, Carl Rothschild.

Fredericka Belmont died on June 9, 1821, after giving birth to her third child. August Belmont was seven and a half years old. Nine months later his father, Simon, traveled 40 miles from Alzey to Frankfurt. He brought August to Frankfurt to be raised by his grandmother, Gertrude. He would also be near Carl Rothschild who would ultimately take responsibility for the boy. Belmont's grandmother's husband, Hajum Lehman Hanau, was the brother-in-law of the eldest Rothschild brother. His sister, Eva (1779-1848), was married to Amschel Rothschild (1773-1855).

Before returning to Alzey, Simon enrolled August in Philanthropin, a Jewish school run by Dr. Michael Hess, a Frankist Sabbatean. Belmont rarely returned to Alzey. After 7 years at the school, Simon, who had a reputation for being stingy, refused to pay the tuition. After he was removed from the school he began working for the Rothschilds. He began by sweeping floors, polishing furniture, and running errands.

"He was neat. He was punctual. In September 1828, a few weeks after beginning work, he wrote his father, "I thank you very much for the sound advice and the admonitions you were kind enough to give me, and I shall try to comply with your wishes and thereby gain the satisfaction of my dear grandmother and my uncle [Isaac Hanau] as well as that of my employers."

Proudly he added, "Until now I have done rather well at the office." And he informed his father, "In addition to English lessons, I have made arrangements for arithmetic and writing" lessons. "Now I am trying to find two fellow-students-I've already found one-to join me in French lessons. Thus," he concluded a little archly, "I shall comply with the orders of Baron Carl von Rothschild, who recommended I take the above-mentioned classes"

His father could object to his taking English when he was at Dr. Hess's Philanthropin, but he couldn't disagree with Carl von Rothschild, especially not when he himself was asking August to deliver letters about certain business matters to the Baron."

By 1832 Belmont was made a confidential clerk. In 1833 he was sent on a mission to Naples where Carl Rothschild headed the Naples branch of the bank. A year later he was promoted to private secretary.

Belmont arrived in the U.S. on May 14, 1837. He was the Rothschild's agent in America. He would quickly grow to become America's hidden overseer. That he was able to remove Lincoln and get away with it, some thirty years later, is proof of this. One hundred years into the future, the Rothschilds determined that another U.S. President needed to be removed. Their chief U.S. agents at the time of November 22, 1963 were the partners of Kuhn Loeb- the John Schiff and Frederick Warburg.

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August Belmont, Sr.

August Belmont, Sr. (December 8, 1813 – November 24, 1890) was born in Alzey, Hesse, to a Jewish family. He immigrated to New York City in 1837 after becoming the American representative of the Rothschild family's banking house in Frankfurt. On receiving his American citizenship, he married Caroline Slidell Perry, daughter of Commodore Matthew Calbraith Perry.

Early life

August Belmont was born on December 8, 1813 (some sources say 1816), to Simon and Frederika Elsass Schönberg. After his mother's death, when he was seven, he lived with his uncle and grandmother in Frankfurt.[1] He attended the Jewish Junior and Senior High School until he began his first job, an apprentice for the Rothschilds.[1] He would sweep floors, polish furniture, and run errands for the Rothschilds, while also studying English, arithmetic, and writing.[2] He was then given a confidential clerkship in 1832 and promoted to private secretary before travelling to Naples, Paris, and Rome.[2] In 1837, Belmont was assigned to Havana to manage the Rothschild's branches. However, while travelling to Havana, Belmont originally went to New York. He arrived during the Panic of 1837, and remained in New York instead of continuing on to Havana to supervise jeopardised Rothschild interests.[1] He changed his surname to Belmont after emigrating to the United States.
[edit] August Belmont and Company

In May 1837, right before Belmont arrived in New York, nearly 250 businesses, including the Rothschild's American agents, had collapsed. As a result, Belmont postponed his Havana departure indefinitely and began August Belmont & Company, believing that he could replace the defunct American Agency with his company.[2] It was an instant success, and Belmont was able to straighten out the Rothschild interests in the United States between 1837 and 1842.[1] In 1844, Belmont was named the consul-general of Austria at New York in an attempt to strengthen his business position. He resigned in 1850 in response to what he viewed as Austria's cruel treatment of Hungary, and because of his increasing interest in politics.[1]
[edit] Entrance into Politics

After marrying Caroline Slidell Perry on November 7, 1849, (the daughter of Matthew Calbraith Perry ), his wife's uncle John Slidell became interested in Belmont, a Democrat unlike most of his business acquaintances, seeing him as an able and enthusiastic protégé.[1] Belmont was originally asked by Slidell to campaign for James Buchanan in New York. Belmont began campaigning for him, and in June 1851, he wrote letters to the New York Herald and the New York National-Democrat, insisting that they do justice to Buchanan's presidential run.[1] Although Franklin Pierce ended up winning the nomination, Belmont supported him and gave him large contributions despite being on the receiving end of political attacks.[2] After Pierce's victory in the 1852 election, he appointed Belmont chargé d'affaires for the United States at the Hague, as well as the American minister at the same place due to his generous contributions to Pierce's campaign. During his time in Holland, Belmont encouraged his fellow diplomats James Buchanan and Pierre Soule to advocate American annexation of Cuba as a new slave state in the soon-notorious Ostend Manifesto.[3]

Belmont's controversial stance on Cuba led Buchanan to deny him the ambassadorship to Spain, a position he lobbied for after Buchanan's 1856 electoral victory.[4] As a delegate to the Democratic Convention of 1860, he supported Stephen A. Douglas, who subsequently named Belmont the Chairman of the Democratic National Committee the same year in Baltimore. He energetically supported the Union cause during the Civil War as a War Democrat, conspicuously helping Missouri Congressman Francis P. Blair raise and equip the Union Army's first predominately German-American regiment.[5] Belmont also used his acumen with European business and political leaders on behalf of the Union Cause, dissuading the Rothschilds and many other bankers from providing the Confederates with loans, and meeting personally with the British Prime Minister Lord Palmerston and various members of Napoleon III's French government.[6]
[edit] Postwar Political Career

Remaining chairman of the Democratic National Committee after the war, August Belmont oversaw the Party's bids for power during what he called "'the most disastrous epoch in the annals of the Democratic Party.'"[7] He began his attempts to rally the disintegrating party as early as 1862, when he and Samuel Tilden bought stock in the New York World and shaped it into a major Democratic institution with the help of its editor, Manton M. Marble.[8] Belmont, seeking to capitalize on Republican divisions at the war's end, spent enormous effort organizing new party conventions and promoting Salmon Chase, whom he saw as the candidate least vulnerable to charges of disloyalty, for the 1868 Democratic nomination.[9] Horatio Seymour's eventual nomination and electoral defeat, while disheartening to Belmont, paled in comparison to Belmont's humiliation by the Democrats' 1872 nomination of Liberal Republican Horace Greeley for president. While the party chairman had promoted Charles Francis Adams for the nomination, Greeley's nomination meant Democratic endorsement of a candidate who had frequently referred to Democrats, Irving Katz notes, as "'slaveholders,' 'slave-whippers,' 'traitors,' and 'Copperheads,' and frequently accused them of thievery, debauchery, corruption, and every known form of vulgarity and sin."[10] Although this embarrassment prompted Belmont to resign his chairmanship of the Democratic National Committee, he frequently reentered the political realm after 1872, as a champion of Delaware Senator Thomas F. Bayard as a presidential candidate, a fierce critic of the process granting Rutherford B. Hayes the presidency in 1877, and an advocate of "hard money."[11]
[edit] Death

He died in New York in 1890 and a volume entitled Letters, Speeches and Addresses of August Belmont was published at New York in 1890. He left between 10 and 50 million dollars for his wife and children. He is now buried in Newport Rhode Island.[2]

His sons Oliver Hazard Perry Belmont, Perry Belmont, and August Belmont, Jr. all rose to prominence in their own right.
[edit] August Belmont in culture

He threw lavish balls, and dinner parties, receiving at times from New York's high society, at first, mixed reviews. An avid sportsman, the famed Belmont Stakes thoroughbred horse race is named in his honor. Its debut took place in Jerome Park Racetrack, where both he and track owner, Leonard Jerome competed with one another. Today The Belmont Stakes are part of the triple crown series, and is done at Belmont Racetrack in New York. Also named in his honor is the town of Belmont, New Hampshire - an honor Mr. Belmont never acknowledged. Also, Edith Wharton reputedly modeled her character of Julius Beaufort in Age of Innocence on August Belmont [12]

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August Belmont, Jr.



August Belmont, Jr. (February 18, 1853 – December 10, 1924) was an American financier, the builder of New York's Belmont Park racetrack, and a major owner/breeder of Thoroughbred racehorses.

Early life

Born in New York City, he was the son of the wealthy banker, August Belmont. An 1875 graduate of Harvard University, where, as a sprinter, he introduced spiked track shoes to the United States. Upon his father's death, he inherited a position as head of the Belmont banking house and served as a Director of the National Park Bank. August Belmont, Jr. founded the Interborough Rapid Transit Company in 1902 to help finance the construction of and operate New York City's first underground rapid transit line. He served as president, and, in 1907, chairman of the company.[1] Belmont holds the distinction of owning the world's only purpose built private subway car. Named Mineola, she was used by Belmont to give tours of the IRT.
[edit] World War I

Following the United States' entry into World War I, August Belmont, Jr., at age 65, volunteered to assist and was sent to France by the United States Army. He received a commission as major in the U. S. flying corps. His wife, Eleanor, also devoted much time to raising funds in aid of Belgian relief efforts and for the Red Cross, she made a number of trans-Atlantic trips as an inspector of United States Army camps.[2]
[edit] Cape Cod Canal

August Belmont was instrumental in making the Cape Cod Canal a reality. Throughout the nineteenth century, many plans were made, but none succeeded. It took Belmont and modern engineering to finally make the pilgrims' dream a reality.

The grand opening of the Cape Cod Canal took place on July 29, 1914, and it was soon plagued with troubles. Belmont's canal was expensive for mariners, costing as much as $16.00 for a trip by schooner, a considerable sum in those days. The narrow 140-foot (43 m) width and shallow 25-foot (7.6 m) depth of the canal made navigation difficult, and tidal flows created dangerous currents, so many mariners continued to use the routes around the cape. As a result, tolls did not live up to expectations and the Cape Cod Canal became a losing proposition. As a result, the Canal was purchased by the U.S. Government on March 30, 1928.[citation needed]
[edit] Thoroughbred horse racing

Like his father, August Belmont, Jr, was an avid thoroughbred racing fan. According to his TIME magazine obituary, August Belmont, Jr. "is credited with having saved thoroughbred racing when it was at its lowest ebb in the East, after the repeal of the racing law in New York State."

August Belmont, Jr. served as the first president of The Jockey Club and was chairman of the New York State Racing Commission. In 1895 he was one of the nine founding members of the National Steeplechase Association.

August Belmont, Jr. inherited Nursery Stud, a Thoroughbred breeding operation established in 1867 by his father at his 1,100-acre (4.5 km2) Babylon, New York estate. There, Belmont, Jr. raised polo ponies and played on a polo team with Harry Payne Whitney. It was here he stood the Hall of Fame stallion Kentucky. In the early 1880s, Belmont, Sr. leased a farm property in Kentucky, located about three miles outside Lexington. After transferring all of the breeding business there, August Belmont, Jr. developed a very important stud farm whose influences are still felt today. Given the same name as the New York operation, at the Kentucky Nursery Stud he bred 129 American Stakes winners. The greatest of the horses he bred was Man o' War, born while he was serving overseas in World War I. In his absence, his wife Eleanor named the new foal "My Man o' War" in honor of her husband but because of his age and the uncertainty as to the war's end, August Belmont, Jr. decided to disband the stable and with the "My" dropped from the name, Man o' War was sold to Glen Riddle Farm in Maryland.

August Belmont, Jr. organized the Westchester Racing Association in 1895. In 1905 he built Belmont Park racetrack in Elmont, on Long Island which operates to this day as the largest thoroughbred racing facility in the state. In the year of its opening, the prestigious Belmont Stakes, inaugurated in 1867 and named in his father's honor, was transferred from the financially troubled Morris Park Racecourse. Three times, horses from August Belmont, Jr.'s stable won the Belmont Stakes, the first coming in 1902 followed by back-to-back wins in 1916 and 1917.

Belmont, Jr. also had horses competing in England and in 1908 his American-bred colt Norman III won a British Classic Race, the 2,000 Guineas. In addition to his Kentucky horse farm, in 1908 Belmont established Haras de Villers, a breeding operation near Foucarmont in Upper Normandy, France. Following the cessation of racing in New York State as a result of the Hart-Agnew Law banning parimutuel betting, Belmont, Jr. stood American stallions at Haras de Villers such as Flint Rock, Ethelbert, and the sire of Norman III, Octagon. At his French farm, he bred notable horses such as Prix de Diane winner Qu'elle est Belle as well as Vulcain, one of the best three-year-olds of his generation in France.[3]

August Belmont, Jr. operated the Kentucky farm until his death in 1924 after which the business was broken up and its bloodstock sold. According to Thoroughbred Heritage, today the property is home to a condominium development. Its horse cemetery, which became part of Hurstland Farm then the Nuckols Farm, is now occupied by the Rood and Riddle Veterinary Clinic.

His son, Raymond, owned Belray Farm near Middleburg, Virginia where the Hall of Fame horse Colin lived out his final years, dying there in 1932 at the age of 27.
[edit] American Kennel Club

"In 1888, August Belmont, Jr. became the American Kennel Club's fourth President".
[edit] Family

In 1881, August Belmont, Jr. married childhood sweetheart and next-door neighbor, Elizabeth Hamilton Morgan. She died at age thirty-six while visiting Paris, France. A widower for twelve years, in 1910 August Belmont, Jr. remarried to actress Eleanor Robson.

August Belmont, Jr. died in 1924, after living much of his life on a 1,100-acre (4.5 km2) estate in North Babylon, New York. He was buried in the Belmont family plot at Island Cemetery in Newport, Rhode Island. After his death, his widow, Eleanor, sold most of the estate to a property developer. Eleanor Belmont outlived her husband by fifty-five years, dying just shy of her 100th birthday in 1979. The remaining 158 acres (0.64 km2)--including the family mansion, lake, and main farm buildings—fell into the hands of the New York State Government. Under the control of planner Robert Moses, the estate was enlarged back to 459 acres (1.86 km2) and turned into Belmont Lake State Park. The mansion served as headquarters for the Long Island State Park Commission until 1935 when it was leveled to make way for the current building.

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Biography of August Belmont

August Belmont (1816-1890), for whom the prestigious Belmont Stakes thoroughbred racing cup is named, was one of the influential bankers who helped define America's Gilded Age. In addition to heading a Wall Street firm that bore his name, Belmont served various Democratic administrations as a diplomat, amassed an impressive art collection, and was a key figure in establishing thoroughbred racing as a sport in the United States. Known for his penchant toward lavish entertaining, Belmont was said to have been the inspiration for a character in Edith Wharton's 1920 novel, The Age of Innocence.



Belmont's Jewish family had roots in Alzei, a town in Germany's Rhenish Palatinate. He was born there on December 8, 1816, to Simon and Frederika (Elsaas) Belmont. His father owned land in the area. Because of the family's relative affluence, young Belmont was able to choose his career freely. After attending a commercial school, at the age of 14 Belmont became an assistant at the offices of the House of Rothschild. The Rothschilds ran Europe's most important bank, and had made their fortune by financing various royal follies over the years; they were perhaps most appreciated for loaning the necessary funds to help turn back Napoleon's armies just before the year of Belmont's birth. To work for their House was considered to be a great honor for a young man, and Belmont's mother had secured this appointment for him through an acquaintance of hers, who had married into the family.

One of Belmont's duties as a lowly assistant was to sweep the floors at the Rothschilds' Frankfurt-am-Main headquarters. However, he proved himself a quick study, and was promoted after three years. He was sent to Naples, Italy in order to negotiate financial contracts with emissaries of the Papal Court. His time there was spent wandering through the city's art museums and galleries. This instilled in him an appreciation for art that would fuel a collecting mania later in life.
Became Rothschilds' Wall Street Representative

In 1837, the House of Rothschild posted Belmont to Havana, Cuba, to look after the firm's interests there. At the time, the island was a possession of the Spanish empire, and an ongoing civil war in Spain gave reason to believe that its monarch, Queen Christina, was extracting large sums from the island in order to finance her side against the Carlist claimants to her throne. On his sea journey there, however, a financial panic erupted in the United States. Belmont transacted his business in Havana hurriedly and then went on to New York. Having learned that the American banking firm which had handled all the Rothschilds' business in the U.S. had failed, Belmont offered to set up his own firm to fill the void; it was said that August Belmont and Company was founded with almost no capital, save for its principal's ties to the famed Rothschild name.

Belmont and Company had an office on Wall Street, and primarily handled foreign exchange transactions. In a few years the firm was thriving. However, the currency business did not offer the chance for large profit margins. "Had he been as bold in business as he was outside it ... he might have been the richest banker in America," Belmont's obituary in the New York Herald later noted. From his earliest days in New York, however, Belmont also enjoyed a reputation as somewhat of a bon vivant. He frequented a popular nightspot called Niblo's Garden Theater, where in the summer of 1841 he became involved in a quarrel with one William Hayward of South Carolina, reportedly over a woman. A duel between the two to resolve the matter resulted in a groin injury that left Belmont with a permanent limp. He was also fond of gambling, and allegedly lost $60,000 one night in a game of baccarat. In conservative New York, he seemed to enjoy defying social conventions. However, his established business reputation gave him a certain gravitas, and the raconteur stories that circulated about him only added to his allure.
Marriage to Prominent Socialite

Belmont became an American citizen and joined the Democratic Party to further establish himself. In 1844 he was named the U.S. consul general for Austria in New York City. Five years later, he married Caroline Slidell Perry, the niece of Oliver Hazard Perry, the War of 1812 naval hero whose fleet defeated the British on Lake Erie. She was also the daughter of Commodore Matthew Calbraith Perry, another famed naval officer. Four years after the marriage, in 1853, Belmont's father-in-law would sail to Japan and persuade its feudal rulers to allow Western ships in their harbor after a 250-year ban.

Such a union added immeasurably to Belmont's status. The newlyweds lived in one of the first residences built on Fifth Avenue, below 14th Street. They later acquired a mansion at 109 Fifth Avenue, where he lived the remainder of his life. He served as the consul general for Austria until 1850, resigning in protest after a newly-formed Hungarian republic was overthrown by Austrian and Russian troops. In 1853, President Franklin Pierce appointed Belmont minister to the Netherlands, and Belmont spent four years in The Hague. His time overseas allowed him to add to his growing private collection of European paintings; when he returned to New York in 1857 he was said to be the owner of over a hundred works of art. The collection even necessitated the renovation of his home to create a gallery space for them.
Democratic Party Executive

In addition to his duties in running the Wall Street firm that bore his name, Belmont also spent a dozen years as the Democratic Party's national chairperson. He rose to the post after the contentious split with the Southern Democrats just before the American Civil War in 1860. At the Charleston convention that year, the delegates were bitterly divided over the issue of slavery, though Belmont had made a rousing speech urging party unity. Belmont was opposed to slavery on principal, but did not believe in abolishing the institution altogether. He was not a supporter of Republican president Abraham Lincoln, but feared the breakup of the Union more. According to a Dictionary of American Biography profile, Belmont harbored deeply patriotic feelings for his adopted country. "I prefer," Belmont wrote to John Forsyth of Mobile, Alabama, in 1860, "to leave to my children, instead of the gilded prospects of New York merchant princes, the more enviable title of American citizens, and as long as God spares my life I shall not falter in my efforts to procure them that heritage."

During the Civil War, Belmont was integral in raising and equipping the first German regiment of the Union Army from New York City. He also worked behind the scenes to assure the Rothschilds and other influential names in Europe that the North would prevail, and cautioned them against providing financial support to the secessionist Confederacy. After the war, Belmont continued his activism inside Democratic Party circles, but fell out with some over the nomination of controversial war General George McClellan to oppose Lincoln in the 1864 presidential race.
Wharton Character Modeled After Him



During what became known as the Gilded Age, Belmont and his wife were counted among New York City's social elite, along with such prominent names as the Astors and the Rhinelanders. When the New York Stock Exchange closed at 4 p.m., he and several other scions of American finance enjoyed riding their carriages through Central Park in a daily promenade. The New York Sun reported in 1877 on the Belmonts' stature: "It is no exaggeration to say that on the whole of this continent there is not another house of which the appointments are as perfect as those of Mr. Belmont's. He is not a mere gastronome, a collector of works of art, or a blind follower of fashion. He is an artist in his household." The paper also commented favorably on Belmont's wine cellar, which it called perhaps the finest in America at the time. There were rumors that Belmont's wine bills sometimes exceeded $20,000 in a single month, and he was occasionally criticized for asking his esteemed, but then elderly father-in-law, Commodore Perry, to fetch a vintage from the cellar.

Belmont's connoisseurship was not without its detractors. His love of French painting was slyly mocked in The Age of Innocence, a novel of Old New York which won Edith Wharton the 1921 Pulitzer Prize for fiction. The wealthy Beaufort character was allegedly based on Belmont; Newland Archer, another character, dislikes the nattily-dressed banker and raconteur. In one exchange that takes place at the home of the Countess Olenska, the two men vie for her attention. "'Painters? Are there painters in New York?' asked Beaufort, in a tone implying that there could be none since he did not buy their pictures," Wharton's novel reads. Archer is secretly elated when Olenska dismisses Beaufort a moment later.

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Belmont had a summer home in the elite enclave of Newport, Rhode Island, and acquired a Long Island property when he became more deeply involved in thorough-bred racing after the Civil War. A friend of his, publisher and financier Leonard W. Jerome, organized the American Jockey Club and established Jerome Park, the first genuinely modern track in the United States. Belmont served as the Club's president for many years. In 1867 the first running of the Belmont Stakes occurred at Jerome Park. The Stakes became the first of the Triple Crown contests in American thoroughbred racing, with the Kentucky Derby and the Preakness following. Belmont's thousand acres near Babylon, in Long Island's Suffolk County, was home to a number of prize horses, some of them considered the best in the country at various times in their career. Belmont, true to form, also constructed an opulent home there. The Spirit of the Times reported in 1870 that "All the sports and recreations which render a sojourn at a fine country house so agreeable have been provided for at the Nursery. Riding, shooting, fishing, rowing, billiards, and croquet, to say nothing of the more business-like walks, talks and inspections of the thoroughbred horses, the Alderney cattle, the Chester hogs, the deer, etc." But Belmont eventually moved his thoroughbred stable to a farm near Lexington, Kentucky in the 1880s, believing that the climate there was better for breeding and training winning horses. In 1889, his thoroughbreds took $125,000 in prize purses.

Belmont's life was marked by some personal tragedies. One of his two daughters died at a young age, and a son committed suicide. In his later years the banker suffered from dyspepsia, and was known to become cantankerous at times. In November of 1890, he presided over a horse show at Madison Square Garden. The chill in the drafty hall sent him home with a cold. It turned to pneumonia, and he died on November 24. He is buried in the Belmont Circle at Island Cemetery in Newport. At the time of his death, Belmont was worth an estimated five to ten million dollars. When St. Blaise, one of his stallions, was sold at auction the following year, it became the first thoroughbred in America to fetch $100,000. His son August Jr., a Harvard graduate, took over Belmont and Co., and eventually became one of the main investors in the construction of New York City's subway system.
Books

Bowmar, Dan M. III, Giants of the Turf: The Alexanders, the Belmonts, James R. Keene, and the Whitneys, Blood-Horse, 1960.

Dictionary of American Biography Base Set, American Council of Learned Societies, 1928-1936.

Wheeler, George, Pierpont Morgan and Friends: Anatomy of a Myth, Prentice-Hall, 1973.


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... the influence of August mother's relations, the Hanaus, certainly played a key role. In later years, when he started his banking house in New York, a rumor was spread that he was an illegitimate Rothschild son, which would explain so many inconsistencies in his career within the family. Apparently the name "Schoenberg" was repeatedly used by Rothschilds, when they  ...


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The Rothschilds Take Japan

The Rothschilds Take Japan
By Clifford Shack

Like the American & French Revolutions, World Wars I & II were orchestrated by elite Freemasons within the Illuminati Lodges on both sides of the Atlantic. Of the four original lodges of the Illuminati, one was formed by Jacob Frank, the Sabbatean and claimant to the Messianic throne of Shabbatai Tzvi. Belonging to this particularly influential lodge at the heart of Freemasonry are members of the Rothschild banking family.

The Rothschilds have been linked to the political players of World War II. Their influence over the Allied powers have been explored through their connections to Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill . Their influence over the neutral powers have been explored through their connections to the Vatican. Their influence over the Axis powers has been explored through their connections to Hitler & Stalin.

But what about the Japan? How did the Japanese manage to become embroiled in World War II? Surely their participation warranted a close connection to the Rothschilds and the Illuminati?

How did the family Rothschild and their secret brethren establish hegemony over the Japanese?

The answer is quite simple.

In the nineteenth century, after Freemasonry had established sufficient inroads within Japan, it was determined that the time had come to overthrow the shogunate and bring Japan under the control of Freemasonry. The Rothschild's would send Commodore Matthew Calbraith Perry sailing into Yokohama.

According to history, President Millard Fillmore sent Perry to Japan. Not some supra-national secret power. That is as it should be. The Rothschilds, Shabbatai Tzvi, Jacob Frank, Freemasonry and the Illuminati are a bit much for the consumption of school children. Too much for students of any age for that matter.

Where is the Rothschild connection to the Perry expedition?

Simple.

Commodore Perry was the father-in-law of August Belmont- the Rothschild's agent in America. August Belmont, was the illegitimate son of Baron Karl Meyer Rothschild of the Rothschild branch in Naples, Italy.

August Belmont married Caroline Perry on November 7th, 1849.

By mid-January 1852 the Commodore was ordered to "proceed to Washington and report to the Secretary of the Navy without delay." He had, as August Belmont wrote his [foster] father, "a very honorable and respectable command over the greatest fleet which was ever appointed in peace times to an American commodore. Namely, he is going with 6 battleships to East India, China, and Japan, and, in addition to being the commander of the fleet, also has a diplomatic mission" - to open Japan to Western trade.

The Belmont family, The Hague, about 1854. (Left to right) Isabel Perry, August Belmont, Perry Belmont, Caroline Belmont, Fredericka Belmont, Jane Perry, August Belmont,Jr., Matthew Calbraith Perry.


August Belmont


Belmont's father-in-law, Commodore Matthew C. Perry in 1853


In 1853 United States Commodore Matthew Perry and his entourage met with Japan's royal commissioner in Yokohama, Japan. With a fleet of American gunships docked in the harbor, Perry presented the Japanese with a trade and friendship treaty. He returned the next year with an even more impressive fleet to assure the signing of the treaty.


Commodore Perry with his translator speaking to a Japanese official


Above is the American view of the first landing by the East India Squadron.


Above is the Japanese view of the first landing by the East India Squadron.


Commodore Perry's monument, Kurihama, Japan [1977]


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