Dan Cody (born 1857) was an American multi-millionaire who made a fortune from the silver and copper mining.
Biography[]
Dan Cody was born in 1857, and he began to make money from several metal rushes in the American West (such as the Klondike Gold Rush), making a multi-million fortune after finding copper in Montana. In 1907, the young Jay Gatsby found Cody's yacht struggling during a storm in Lake Superior, so Gatsby climbed aboard the yacht and steered Cody to safety; Cody made Gatsby his assistant, and he took him on yacht journeys for 10 years. When Cody died of his alcoholism, Gatsby was cheated of his $25,000 inheritance by Cody's family, leaving him dirt poor once more.