The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1898-12-22
DEATH 0F 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.
RESULT OF THE STORM.

Confined TO His Home Only since Sum
day-Passing of n Great Figure In the
Financial and Railroad " orld-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 been confined to the
house since Sunday, and had suffered
slightly from cold, which affected his
voice for week or ten days, but his
illness was not diagnosed as pneumonia
until Tuesday. Having been of robust
health all his life, Mr.. Brice thought
nothing of the cold, except that it in
convenienced him somewhat. He was
at his Office on Saturday until late that
night. On Sunday his family prevailed
upon him to remain at home, and by
Tuesday his condition was such that q
consultation of physicians was called,
which DIR. 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 2:30 o'clock
his immediate business associates down.
town were told over the telephone that
he might live an hour, AT 3.15 he died.
Mrs. Brice and fouf Of the five children
were with him. His son John arrived
from Harvard a few minutes before his
fathers 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
fathers interests. The other children
are Stewart, who bears his fathers
middle name; Katherine and Helen
Brice.
Mr.. Brice was born at Denmark, O.,
Presbyterian Clergyman. He entered
versity at Oxford, o., at 13, and in
April, 1851, enlisted in Captain Dodd $
university company that was stationed
at Columbus, o. lie went back to col
lege and In April, 1862, re-enlisted in a
university organization that became the
Eighty-sixth 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 a time and then un-
dertook clerkship in the County Aud
itor's office. In July, 1864, he recruited
company of Union volunteers and was
made Captain of Company E, 10Sth
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 wasn't mustered in. He
took the law school lectures of Michi-
gan University in 1865 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 tie Cleveland, Akron and
Columbus; Vice-President of the Du
luth, South Shore and Atlantic, and g
director of the Chicago, indianapolis
and Louisville (Monon), of the Pacific
Mail Steamship Company, the Wells
bach Commercial Company and the
Chase National Bank.