The sun., 1898-12-02
J. TAYLOR CAUSE DEAD
Prominent Citizen of This City
Passes Quietly Away to His
Final Rest.
DEATH DUE TO PNEUM)N[A
Deceased Was President of the Ship
building Firm of Harlan & H0l.
lingsworth.-.His Ancestors
Came to This Country
in 1900.
DEATH DUE TO PNEUM)N[A

j. Taylor Cause, president of he Har-
Ian and Holingsworth Company died at
S O'Clock yesterday afternoon at his
home, Pennsylvania avenue and R 'dney
street.
The deceased, who was one of the
most prominent citizens of Wilmington,
had been in poor. health for humber Of
years bnt was able to attend to his busi-
! ness duties until abont two weeks ago
when he was confined tn his home.
Under the careful treatment Of DR.. J..
N. Crumhangh he was apparently re-
gaining health. Two days ago, however,
pneumonia SIT in and this, with the ad-
vanced age of Mr.. Cause, soon placed
him beyond the hope of recovery and he
passed peacefully away at the hour des-
ignated. =. -.r'
Mr.. Cause was rs years Of age and has
been identified with the Harlan & Hol-
lingsworth Company since 1850.
He is survived by four children, three
sons and daughter, the former being
Horace, Harvey and Victor Cause, all of
this city.
J. Taylor Gause was born on Septem-
Der 80, 1928 nearly quarter of century
before the practical introduction of iron
ships, far from the scene of his then un-
dreamed of future labors and successes
another illustration of the mysterious
play of chances in the complicated game
OF life. His father, Harlan Cause as we'll
as his grand fathers for four generations
and his mothers family for six genera
tions, had lived upon the identical lands
then granted the first owners, and short
ly afterwards merged by previous mar
riage into one estate. Charles Cause
l..e first of his name in this country
came from Wales, with his young wife
Jane Powell, daughter o. Evan Powell, of
Radnor, Wales, in 1899, and settled in
Chester county, Pennsylvania, where his
decendents have lived down to the death
Of Harlan Cause, and the removal OF the
subject-o. this sketch to wilmington On
January 20, 1913.
Of Welsh and English stock upon the
male and female sides respectively,
mingled in later generations with some
pure Teutonic blood, Mr.. Cause carries
with him through his liniage the peculiar
qualities which have been developed by
his career, and which had so eminentIy
qualified him for the bearing OF heavy
burdens, both physically and intellectual
ly with the sturdy endurance and capacity
typical of the races from which he had
sprung. His coming to Wilmington in
1913 was for the purpose of starting
life" on his own account.
His boyhood and youth had been
passed on his fathers farm near Ken
nett Square. Beginning at the foot Of
the ladder he climbed slowly but surely
to the top round of official and executive
position, finally assuming, upon the
deaih h of Samuel Harlan in 1883, the sole
management Of the business. In 1858
Mr.. cause was formally admitted as an
equal partner in the business with Mr..
Harlan and Mr.. HolIingsworth, forming
the Harlan, Ho'lingsworth & Company,
which was ir 1866 merged into the pres
ent corporation ofthe Harlan & Hollings-
worth Company.
The deceased held the office of presi-
dent of the company for many years and
relinquished it in July, 1896, at which
time Henry G. Morse succeeded him, but
a few months ago Mr.. Morse resigned
and Mr.. Cause was again elected pres-
dent OF the company and remained as
such until his death.