The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-10-12
A. C. LANIEK Is DEAD
MADISON'S MILLIONAIRE PHILAN-
THRoPIsT PASSES AWAY.
Brother OF the Well-Known New York
Financier-Romance That Ended
In Marriage Late I'm Life.
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MADISON, Ind, Oct. E.-Alexander
Chalmers Lanier, millionaire and local phi
lanthropist, died at his home here this aft
ernoon at 2:40 o'clock. Mr.. Lanier recently
returned from Indianapolis. where an oper-
alton was performed on one of hie eyes at
st. Vincent's Hospital. A cataract was sue
cessfully removed, but DIR. Davidson, Of
this city. the attending physician, thinks
the shock OF the operation caused his pa
tient's death, as he began to grow weaker
after his return home. Just as he was
leaving the hospital to go to the train he
was seized with a fainting fit and had to
be returned to his bed, where he remained
for several days in a condition of great
nervous depression, but whether this attack
was due to the shock OF the operation or
to other causes Is not known. The funeral
will take place Sunday afternoon at
o'clock. The interment will be at Sprngdale
Cemetery in Madison. where his mother and
other members of the family are buried.
His father. j. F. d. Lanier. is buried in
New York.
Alexander c. Lanier was of Huguenot or
igin, and was the son of ]. F. d. and Eliz-
abeth G. Lanier. He was born in Madison.
Ind, Oct. 6, 1920, and there his entire life
was spent. He was educated at the Indiana
University and at Yale College, graduating
from the latter in 1916. But few men lived
to his age with less eventful or a more
peaceable and honorable life that Alex
ander Chalmers Lanier. In 1858 he con-
nected himself with the Second Presbyte-
rian Church OF Madison, and lived there
after a respected a1d consistent member
thereof. His charity was quiet and unos-
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beautiful home. with its ample orchards,
vineyards. gardens and hothouses, afforded
him the means to minister to the sick with
delicate attentions and to crafty his
friends with the choicest of natures pro-
ductions. His interest in flowers, horti-
culture and game has been of inestimable
value to this community. for he introduced
countless new varieties of fruits and flow
ers. and did as much as any man in the
State to preserve the song and game birds
and fish from indiscriminate slaughter
The old ladies' and children's homes, and
hundreds of the deserving poor and un-
fortunate in Madison who have shared his
benefactions will feel that they have lost
friend whose place to them will not be
Mfe of the ase S the
whom he was married in indianapolis Nov
q, 1889. 1t is known by many of the older
Mr. Sering were suitors for the hand of
Miss Stella Sering, who in the early days
was a belle Of Madison. Mr.. Sering won
her, and Mr.. Lanier would probably have
never married but for the death of Mr.
Sering, after which the old love was re-
newed, and for years this venerable and
respected couple lived happily.
Alexander Lanier's younger brother,
Charles Lanier, now the head of the old
banking house of Winslow, Lanier & Co.,
resides In the city of New York. His eldest
sister Mrs. Elizabeth L. Dunn, widow of
the late Gen. William Mckee Dunn, re-
sides in Washington city. His sister Mrs
Drusilla Cravens, wife of Hon. John r.
Cravens, lives in Madison. Another sister.
Mrs. Mary l. Stone, lives in the city of
New York. Mrs. Miles Standish, a half
sister, also resides in New York.