The Grant County herald. (Big Stone City, Grant County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1883, 1879-10-25
DEATH OF DANIEL DREW

5 m)EATH OF DANIEL DREW
h. I The Story Of Ills Life.
,na Daniel Drew, who, for forty years was
- - of the most prominent figures IN
/ ~. II street, and the prime cause Of many
~ nancial convuIsion, died on Thursday
~ 7sV he house Of his son, at No. 3 East
Wv 'ty-secona street, in 4 very sudden
aner. The old man had been IN his
f'.sal health apparently during the carly
egg / of the evening He bad uincd with
~" oi'ius Lawrence, Of the firm OF Lawrence
ahea theirs, Broad street brokers', in the
the End Union Hotel, and made no com
Fafplls mt untll 7. NJ, when he said that he
( you not feel quite well, He refused TO
Eyman nit any one to set up with him and
by vhered to his room; but at 10 +. NJ. lie
led jose and said that he was suffering from
I fon, lin over his heart similar to that
1et w-ch his mother experienced Just before
has beedeath. A moment later his head
upon his breast and he was dead,
cause being either epilepsy or heart
: Eus ase.
ftbe p ost universally known in latter days
!, n IS born at Carmel, Putnam county,
Il H. =, on the Goth Of July,l.91, and was
.aditia ,fore in his eighty-third year. He
- "A farmers son, and Scottish and
/, sv,,ish blood was mingled in his veins.
j. ~, n2 his father died leaving his moth
H. H.. it'll two children. himself and a
,.nss ger brother, in straitened elrcum-
n,a.a5 les. Daniel was then in his seven
80, !. nh b year and began life by enllstine as
ia .stitute in the state militia. He
i with his regiment To Fort Ganse--
f. do, but IL three months peace was pro
ed, and he was mastered out of the
,,s e. With his substitute money he
IN red IN cattle trade He bought cat
o., Putnam and Duchess counties and
- them into the city after nighttall.
l3 as an excellent Judge Of cattle and
- IS worker. and made money from the
- But his restless energy was not
7p p,. ed with this small sphere OF action.
-. nceived the idea Of bringing cattle
!. u Ohio-an apparently wild scheme
- sc days-and succeeded in induc-
| '''',r r. enry Astor the butcher, brother OF
80 Jacob Astor, to advance him the
E'iies : arv capital. The profits were 50
on to Isha+ NV. n.as sna, alla - ,a,,.,,
|ed pretig rrowaa ,noney and .ytona h;s 90 ps
I ~ i1s to Kentucky and Illinois. Once
w he was driving cattle across the
+ fhlp, lany Mountains his horse was kill
he ol lightning and he himself was hurl-
oi .'ie seless to the ground In 1920 Mr.
Ese ii'es opened a cattle yard at Third aven-
! 10. Y Twenty-fourth street, and the
|o Noih Head Tavern became the head
VII hor rs of the drovers. In nine years
moalf ew accumulated a large fortune.
ready as in 1884 that Drew first pitted
les iais' as an opponent to Commodore
/ tninA .bilt in the steamboat business, by
(ola y g the Westchester and Emerald
er ana n New York and Albany. He re-
Empress the passenger fare from 81 to S
herself lol de corresponding reduction in
Fst ana eN rates. lIe built new boats, and
n sterling lpetition between him and his RI
- SO high that passengers were car
II smith a shilling, aut his energetic and
management Won tie day at last
[,hmond the Well-known Peoples Line OF
Losen the 3 was organized and Mr.. Drew
of earnln. largest stakeholder. When the
Rachel Railroad was opened in 1852 he
is country to sell his stock, and the result
lack smith owed the shrexdness Of his judg-
ned The y Traffic was stimulated by the
IL
father gre'assengers and rs much freight as
Top and ss
bwn labo4 A Mr. Drew entered Wall street
len dres lcrship with his son in-law, Mr.
Pn, and # and Nelson Taylor Ten years
pc as she ,th his partners Were dead, and it
she sti that Uncle Danl became known
months of the boldcst and shrewdest
|dlv suah 3 in Wall street lie was es-
her bestdaF interested in Harlem and Erie
man. sind it was in connection with
Ice when lat he fought his battles with bis
single al1al, Vanderbilt In the famous
corner" he got the worst Of Il
compelled to pay nearly half
1anos inhof dollars into Nanderbllt's pock-
a.a erffhe had his revenge for this later
W - 10 great Erie contest
~ 50 Wash the Vanderbilt party had oh
~ hu.;gontrOl Of the Hudson River, Cen
~, ~ styt Harlem lines there remained the
'na, "a the to be overcome. They bought
h who wer = 11iie s'ooN - 'ne niaihe'' ana