Morning journal and courier., 1894-03-20
rHE LArE HoADLEY 5. IVES.

THE LATE HOADLEY ELVES.
 Sketch of the Career of This Late Prominent Townsman and Banker | -His Indomitable win and Perse. | verance Coupled With Rare Business I .Aagacity-His Party Amliatfons-His Last Hours. Hoadlsy B. Ives passed away yesterday at his home on York street, aged eighty four years. Mr.Ives was up and about the house during Sunday, and was hopeful of recovery up to Sunday evening, when he began to fail rapidly, great weakness being apparent. He grew steadily weaker during the night and his attendants hardly ex- pected him to live until daylight. Tester day morning he was greatly prostrated and Dr. Russell was sent for, but was at the bedside of another patient who was criu- oally i'll. Dr. Lewis was then called and Dr. Hawkes. was also called, and the latter remained until Mr. Ives death. Lsverett Candse, treasurer of the Fair Haven horse railroad, together with the immediate fam fly, was also present. MT. Ives retained consciousness until within few moments of the end.
 . Mr. Ives illness dated from March g, he having been taken i'll with nervous pros tration and collapse soon after arriving at his home at noon. His mind was shat tered temporarily, but in 8 day or two he rallied mentally and seemed in this respect much the same ss ever. He had been ap- parently gaining in strength each day and received many of his friends at his home on York street. While they were there he, with his wonderful power of will, talked with them and appeared to be as we'll as ever. The disease with which he had been suffering for some time, Bright's disease, finally sappsd his vital forces. Dr.. T. Fl. Russell, who has attended him from the first, says MT. Ives was suffering the diagnosis. It was thought at first by many that breaking down of the nervous system was the only thing with which MT. Ives was suffering. The doctor saw that the nervous forces of his patient were growing weaker day by day and knew that he could not long survive. Sunday night he called on Nr. Ives and found him very weak. He had hoped to keep MT. Ives alive and comfortable for some weeks at least, but knew that he could not recover. MT. Ives died peacefully at about 10:30 .. m.
 Hoadley B. Ives was born in North Hs. ven, November go, 1911. He was the eld- est child of William Ives and Polly An drews Bray, and was named for his uncle, Honorable Rosdley Bray of East Have n. He inherited his remarkable business abil- ity and persistency from long line of Puritan ancestry.
 He was lineal descendant from William Ives, one of the founders of New Haven who was united in the civil compact of 1889, and from Thomas Yale, another of | the first settlers; also from William Hoad- | ley of Branford. 1864; from Dr. John Hull of Stratford, 1861, and from John Bray of Branford, 1735, all of whom were men of was farmer. After attending the district ! school and assisting his father on the farm, | at the age of about twelve years, bs began ! a years schooling at the Connecticut Epis | copal academy in Cheshire.
 At the age of fifteen he went to learn the tin business with his uncle, Hoadley Bray of East Haven. They sent him i1 the field to pull turnips. He stayed on. hour at that, which he thought wal | enough. He then walked into New Haver ! with only fifty cents in his pocket. He ' AAACSA 0o a oA0AA HI Q AAooC4y blo1o Oo OlANs street near Grand avenue, where he re mained three years. Then at the age oi nineteen he went into business for hi m self on Church street, where Somers' store Is now.
 Here is where he got the start which cul | minated in building up large fortune. | He was located in this store between thirty | and forty years, and Mr. Somers, who wal his clerk, at last bought the business. Be fore selling out MT. Ives had been invest ing his savings, with his ususl rare dis. | cretion, in real estate and mortgages, ani when he left the store he was ready to em
 bark more largely in the financial field. | After leaving mercantile life he invested
 his savings in stock companies and banks
 but keeping up his placing of mortgages Having invested in the Fair Haven ani
 Westville horse railroad soon after it wa organized, he became a director in the com
 pany in 1864, and it's president four year
 later, which office he filled until his death
 In 1866 he became the secretary and treas
 urer of the National Savings bank, havin,
 been one of the principal incorporators o
 the same. He was also for several years
 director of the Merchants' bank, althougl
 retiring from She directory years ego, bu
 retaining his investment in the stock. H,
 was for many years and up to the time O
 his death c director in the Yale Nations
 bank. He also had investments in variou
 other banks of this city.
 In the New Haven Water company h
 was large owner. He also had c larg
 holding in the New Haven Gas Light com
 psny. In these corporations he invested years ago, and his gain in them financial,
 was large. His investment in the Fai
 Haven road. which was perhaps his pc
 business scheme, was considerable. MT
 Ives held also about 200 shares of the stool
 and other securities of the Consolidated
 road, most of which he bought also year l ego, when the stock did not command higl
 figures. Tnere were many other interests
 in which he had holdings, and they are al
 in gilt-edge affairs. He also held the SC
 curities of reliable outside railroads ant
 other corporations, but the bulk of hi
 monetary holdings will be found to be il
 real estate mortgages, according to the bes
 information. MT. Ives fortune has bee,
 variously estimated and overestimated. 4
 conservative and probably reliable estimst, puts the value of his estate at about three
 quarters of 8 million dollars.
 He married Mary E. Fisher of this city
 a daughter of the late engineer, who diee
 recently in Saybrook and whe for man,
 years was an engineer on the New Yori
 and the Shore Line railroads. He had nt
 children. His widow survives him. Ht
 also leaves two sisters, Jane l., wife O
 John Fl. Washburn, vice president of tho
 Home Insurance company of New York
 and Hannah J. Fl. Ives of Iowa. Ex-Judg
 Charles A. Bray, Mrs. Lester P. Mallory
 and Mrs. Sarah B. Ives of Fair Haven Eas
 are first cousins of the deceased.
 MT. Ives will be greatly missed in th,
 corporations with which he was so lonI
 and 90 prominently connected, and alsi
 among the business men with whom h. came so often in contact He was partic
 ularly marked for his indefatigable sppll
 cation to business, which was the grea
 hobby of his life and in which he took sin
 cere pleasure, and many have the impres
 sion that his attention to bushes pro
 lonaed his life. He kept in the harnes
 until near the erd of long and usefu
 life.
 MT. Ives was in politics staunch repub
 licsn, and in this field of enquiry and ao
 tivity he was for many years active sni
 alert. He was prominent in the counsel,
 of the party in New Haven, and was fo
 many years an active participant in tn
 city and town conventions of his party
 He was sage counsellor and discreet ad
 wiser both in financial matters and city
 politics, and he was firm friend where h,
 placed his friendships and went out of hil
 way many times Is his busy career to d.
 substantial favors for others. It was re