The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-05-13
ROSWELLP. FLOWER DEAD
HEART FAILURE FOLLOWED AN ACcUTe
ATTACK OF GAS 'RI'ls.
His Career as Farmer, Poi'i ion and an 0p.
orator on the New York STICK
lxchargs

| New York. May 12.-Formar Governor
Roswell +. Flower died tonight at 1880
| at the Eastport County Club at East
port. Long Island. MIR. Flowcr vas
taken i'll early in the day witt! IL severe
attack of acute indigestion In the
afternoon symptoms of neart failure
supefvenea and he grew steadily worse
until the time of his daa.n.
! Mr.. Flower had been IA sufferer from
gastritis for long time with every now
and then an acute attack. For a month
or two past he had been a resciar
visitor at the Eastport Country Cub
| in the hope that he would lind some
relief in the outing. lie appeared in
robust health Yesterday and tli, morn
ing When ne arrived at Eastport, where
he iptended to remain until Monday. his
| health was apparently excellent The
attack from which he suffered today.
cane on suddenly and was OF Il more
severe tyre at the outset than any ne
had previously suffered FROM
| Frederick $. Flower took charge Of
the details after his death but no ar
rangemcnt for the funeral has yet been
made. The body will probably be trans
ferred to Manhattan tomorrow morning
Roswell Pttibone Flower was born in
/ Theresa. Jefferson, y. ". August 18th.
1850 His father was born at Oak Hill,
Green county. y. ". and his ancestors
were from Connecticut Roswell was
the sixth OF lrine children and when
Eas father died he was = years old. He
worked With his brothers OH two farms.
4 Df hnp n l..
Between school sessions in rne hardest
kind of labor.
| Mr.. Flower came to New York in 1869
to take charge Of the estate Of Henry
Keep. whore widow was Mrs. Flowers
sister. MIR. Keep owned a great many
raillaad and other stocks and during
the mnnthS before Eis death he spent
much time instructing Mr.. Flower about
them. Having thus gained an insight
into Wall Street and its methods. Mr..
Ficwer formed in 1870 the firm of
Ber@dlct, Flower and Company. in
which he joined l.. G.. Benedict and IL,
Ii. Truman. This firm was dissolved i'm
1877 when Mr.. Flower was i'll for seye-
raj months. Net leng afterward he
organized the banking firm of Flower &
Company, which has since been a power
Pin Wall Street. Mr.. Flower always
was 4 Democrat.
| In the early seventies he helped Sam
uel j. Iilden to develop the famous or
gaEtzation which exposed Tweed and en-
joyed many other triumpns.
| Mr.. Flower was chosen chairman of
/ the Democratic State Committee i'm 1877
and in 1881 he defeated William Wal
dorf Astor for Congress after hot
campaign i'm the Eleventh district. He
refused Il denomination. He was elected
| Governor of the State in 1891
In the cholera epidemic IN the late
summer of 1882 thousands of passen-
gers arriving from Europe. were quar-
antined on shipboard down the bay. As
an emergency measure Governor Flower
bought with his own money the Fire
Island Hotel. in the name or the State,
dnd ordered that the passengers be
sent there.
Mr.. Flower took up Brooklyn RAPID
Transit less than two years ago. buying
| from o0,00O to 10000 shares mt about
yo25 when the capital stock was only
lS23.0OO.0n0. He absorbed many subor-
dinate lines. among them the Nassau u
Electric Company. and increased the
| eaiifai stock to ST.. .0bO. 600. and by his
extraordinarily successful manipulation
| Continued on Sixth Page)