The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1897-06-14
DEATH or JEDEDIAH WILCOX.

DEATH OF JEDEDiIH WLLCOA.
Occurred Suddenly In Louisville, KY,
Saturday. Widely Known Business Man.
A telegram was received Saturday by
Mrs. Jedediah Wilcox Of 70 Howe street,
this city. announcing the sudden death
in Louisville, KY, of her husband, Mr..
Jedediah Wilcox, business man and
former manufacturer, well known
throughout the state. Mr.. Wilcox had
been on an extended business trip in
the west and was on his way home,
having stopped at Louisville to attend
to some business, when his death oc-
CURED at the Gait house in that city.
Since receiving the dispatch announc-
ing the death Mrs. Wilcox has wired
to Louisville to learn particulars, but
has as yet been unable to ascertain the
cause Of death. From the fact, how
ever. that Mr. Wilcox had been in good
health. and that his demise was pre-
ceded by no illness, it is concluded by
his friends and members of his family
that death was due to apoplexy or
heart disease, although it is not known
that he had ever been afflicted with
heart trouble or apoplectic symptoms.
Directions have been sent to Louis
vile to have the remains embalmed
and sent at once to this city. When
they will arrive is not known and con-
sequently no definite arrangements for
the funeral have yet been made. 1t is
expected, however, that particulars OF
the death and other information will
be received to-day, so that the funeral
can be arranged for. Edmund Wilcox
of Meriden, a brother of the deceased,
will come to this city to-day to assist
in the arrangements.
Mr.. Wilcox, although seventy years
of age, was wonderfully well preserved
and scarcely appeared to be more than
fifty years Of age at the most He had
resided in New Haven about twenty
one years, having removed to this city
from Meriden, where he was a promi-
nent manufacturer of Woolen goods.
Previous to that he organized and con-
Quoted a silverware manufacturing bus
mess in Meriden which eventually was
combined with the Meriden Britannia
company's interests. During recent
years his chief business had been the
promoting and organizing of companies
of various kinds, and in this he had
been most successful. He also owned
large interest in the famous Hathorn
Spring at Saratoga, and business in
connection with this spring had occu-
pied much of his time and attention
during the past eight or ten years.
While he was in business in Meriden
he tullt a large and elegant residence
in that city. which is now owned by
Charles Parker, one of the leading
manufacturers Of the place and one of
the wealthiest men in the state. Mr..
Wilcox was at one time president of
| the Meriden Fire Insurance company
and the Wilcox Hose company of Mcri
| lien was raIned for him. He was a
brother of Horace G. Wilcox, founder
of the Meriden Britannia company, who
died of aloplexy about five years ago
/ Another frt ther was Dennis Wilcox, a
broker in New York who died some
years ago.
Mr.. Wilcox leaves, besides his wife
and daughter in this city, two sisters
who reside in Meriden, and also two
| brothers, one of whom is Edmund Will
cox of Meriden and the other is Wat.
son Wilcox, who conducts the High.
land house in Westfield, the old Wilcox
homestead The deceased was an TN.
| Gle of George II. Wilcox, at present
/ president of the Meriden Britannia
! company.