The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1886-01-13
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This commuuify yesrer
hay morning to hear that Col. EDMusp
RrcHA RDsoS had died suddenly OF
&poplexy in this city on Monday night
Z He arrived from Vicksburg about
falf-past ten o'clock, and about half an
tpur thereafter was found dead IN West
dickson. The body was taken TO New
Okeans yesterday afternoon, accom-
panied by Rev. DR.. HUNTER and other
friends. After lying in state, at the
Cotton Exchange, in New Orleans, for
two DAYS. it viii be returned to this
city for internent.
y. o. PieayuDe, 18th.
Col. Edmund Richardson was born
near Danville, IL the State OF North
Carolina. in wear 1918. At an earls age
he came to Mississippi with his fathers
family
The family was not burdened with
much Of this worlds goods, and when
the youth had received such education
as Was 10 be attained in the country
schools at that day, he went ~ work u
| Law the foundations of one of the most
successful business careers and exten
siye private fortunes known in the
annals Of the South.
/ Time fails for a narrative of the pain
/ ful aud laborious steps of the early days
of his industrious life, but it is enough
to say that he finally acquired large
/ interests in cotton planting, and fof
years before his death was known as the
most extensive cotton planter in the
world.
His growing business induced the es
tablishment of commercial house IN
/ this citv, where for years he has been as
ISOLATED with A H. May, Esq under
the firm name of Richardson x May.
/ He purchased controlling interest in
! the cotton mills at Wesson, Miss, some
years ago, after the establishment had
been burned aud rebuilt, and reorganiz
ed it on an extensive scale. He was alst
President of the Refuge Oil Mills, al
| Vieksburg.
Col. Richardson was a man Of bust
4 ness aIl his life, and his private opera
tons werl so vast that they left him n,
time for political ambitions. He nevel
sought or held any public office, ano
although he was a large stock holder il
|
| neser desired or felt that he could spar,
the time To take control of any of them
In 1888, when the corporation of til,
Worlds Industrial and Cotton Ceuten
NAL Exposition at New Orleans wa
organized. after much urging, on TIN
,rouud that the leading cotton grove
, of the world shou d be President OF al
institution intended TO commemorat
n tnsaf inn 1
America. Col. Richard, on consented t
take the first place IN It's Board OF Man
: agement, a place ne held during the eA
istence of tie Exposition.
Col. Richardson married sister o
, the late .ex Gov. Robert NJ. Patton, q
Alabama, who still survives him. Th
e lruit OF this union were four sons an
e one daughter They are respectivei
! James 3, vino lives in Bolivar, Miss.
= William F., who lives in Nicksburg
John Z who is an extensive whoiesal
l 0ry goods merchant III this city, an
e two Younger, Charles Z. and Miss Susl
, f., charming young lady, we'll know
in the social circles uf the South. a
: the children save the Oldest son bea
e their neither ; name of Patton.
5 Colonel Richardson, despite the car
+ of his great anu ever growing busines
maintained cordial Intimacy with
circle OF old friends, but he had nt
Il much time to give to merely socii
5 affairs; but those who know him be-
Will mourn him most.
His plantations are situated in Il
States of Mississippi, Louisiana an
Arkansas, and lis vast landed domai
all in active cultivation, rivals that
J. any great feudal lord OF the old worl
He was cut off in the midst of b
{ busy life aud mis- death was as startir
i to his nearest friends as the news of
IS will be TO the busy world in which
bore so conspicuous a part.