RAGS TO HONEST RICHES
from far less than humble beginnings. The son of penniless Catholics in Dublin, Ireland, he was nine when he sailed with his family to America in 1840. The Mackays joined thousands of immigrants crowding a squalid Lower Manhattan slum. On the inadequately-drained arteries of Five Points, feral pigs rooted amid human and animal waste, kitchen slops, ash, and the rotting remains of dead beasts. Fifty years later, now one of the world’s richest men,
