Post-boxing Career
After he retired in 1908, McFadden opened a gymnasium in Manhattan, where he catered to financial lights such as the Morgans, Goulds, Whitneys and others. It is estimated that during the course of a single day, the ownership of half of New York passed through the posh portals of Elbows’ gym.
An entrepreneur, as late as 1938, at age 66, McFadden was selling a course on “How to Increase Your Height” at his gymnasium.
After World War II, he started to slow down. His once-alert mind became more and more unclear, and he relived more and more often his great fights of the past. He spent his last years unknown and ignored, living in another and better time, at the Creedmoor hospital for the insane.
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