Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1898-12-23
DEATH Of CALVIN 5. BR|CE. |
Capitalist and Former United
States Senator Dies of
Pneumonia.
RESULT OF THE STORM.
He Had Never Had Days Illness
and Exposed Himself Heed
lesSly to the Gale.

Confined TO His Home Only Since Sun
day-Passing of a Great Figure in the
Financial and Railroad " orId-Head
of the American China Development
Company.
New York, Dec. 17.-Calvin S. Brice
died Thursday afternoon at his home,
693 Fifth avenue this city, of pneu-
monia. He had Leen confined to the
house since Sunday, and had suffered
slightly from a cold, which affected his
voice for a week Or ten days, but his
illness was not diagnosed as pneumonia
until Tuesday. Hlving been Of robust
health all his life Mr.. Brice thought
nothing of the cCld, except that it in
cOnvenienced him somewhat. He was
at his office on Sat friday until late that
night. On Sunday his family prevailed
upon him to rem.lin at home, and by
Tuesday his condition was such that a
consultation of physicians was called,
which DR.. JaneWay attended with
others. Mr.. Brice's trouble was pro-
nounced pneumonia. He rallied under
treatment and was thought to be doing
well until about / o'clock Thursday
morning, when he sank rapidly. Oxygen
was given him. but his condition con-
tinued most critical. At 2:3O o'clock
his immediate business associates down
town were told over the telephone that
he might live an hour. At 3:l5 he died.
Mrs. Brice and four of the five children
were with him. His son John arrived
from Harvard few minutes before his
father death. w. Kirkpatrick Brice
has been on the staff of Gen. Anderson
at Manila, but is said to be now in
China on business connected with his
father interests. The other children
are Stewart, who bears his fathers
middle name: Katherine and Helen
Brice.
Mr.. Brice was born at Denmark. o.,
on Sept. l., lS4j His father was a
Presbyterian clergyman. He entered
the preparatory school of inland Uni
versity at Oxford, o., at -. and in
April, lS6l enlisted in Captain DOdd )
university company that was stationed
at Columbus. o. He went back 10 col
lege and i'm April. lN62. re-enlisted in a
university organization that became the
Eighty-siNth Ohio Infantry, which was
sent to West Virginia on guard duty.
In 1863 he was graduated from the uni
versity and went TO Lima. where he
taught school for time and then I'M
dertoOk a clerkship in the County Aud
itOr's Office. In July. ls64, he recruited
a company of Union volunteers and was
made Captain of Company f, l0Sth
Ohio Infantry. He served in the field
in the Twenty-third Army Corps in
Tennessee, Virginia, the Carolinas and
Georgia, and was appointed Lieutenant
Colonel, but WASH t mustered IN. He
took the law school lectures of'Michi-
gan University in lS65 and was admitted
to the bar in the following year, prac-
ticing law for ten or a dozen years at
Lima. He Interested himself in cor
poratiOn law and affairs of traffic and
transportation and acquired holdings
of the old Lake Erie and Louisville
Railroad stock. He was successful in
carrying through some extensions of
the road and undertook later the con-
struction of the Nickle Plate because
the Lake Shore couldn't be induced to
make a desired arrangement to handle
the business delivered by the Lake Erie
and Louisville.
He was President at the time of his
death of the Lake Erie and Western
Railroad and Cleveland, Akron and
Columbus: Nice-President of the Du-
! luth. South Shore and Atlantic, and a
director of the Chicago, indianapolis
and Louisville 'Alonon, of the Pacific
Mail Steamship Company, the Wells
bach Commercial Company and the
! Chase National Bank.