Waterbury Democrat., 1901-01-07
DEATH OF PHI ARMOUR.
The Millionaire Pork Packer
 Passes Away.
Had Been Sick for Nearly Two Years He Expected to Die, so Had His .At
 1airS All Arranged.

IalrS All Arranged. V
 Chicago, Jan Philip D. Armour eleu or heart trouble Just DeIore u CLOCK laSt nISnI at HIS residence, Z11J 1falfIe avenue. Although oeaIn was 1eafeu us coming was sudden, ana onlS the Immediate lnemDerS of the la1nlly and hlS physicians were at the bedside when deaIn occurred Mir Ar mour was CONSCIOUS until two hours be- lore ms death occurred, and talked to the members of his family and his pnySlclanS about his condition, He did not speak of death
 fCf two years, at various times, NIr Armour had said that he was ready for death and had made ali preparations Tor the event. lie faced the ordeal winch he expected at any time with the equanimi1y which characterized every action of his life, not even say ing farewell to his family before uil- consciousness came. The heart trol- ble, Which resulted in death, manifest ed itself two years ago and caused the, first Interruption in the business car ger of the packer. He abandoned all business ill June, 1898. and went to Manheim. Germany. to treat his ail- ment at the bathS He returned in Au- gust much improved and spent the fol lowing winter in Pasadena. Cal. He did not recover entirely and was told by his physician. Dr Frank Billings, that death might occur at any time.
 Mir Armour returned q to Mannheim last April and again spent three months at the baths. When he returned he was much improved and he spent his time. during the latter part of the summer and the early fall between Chicago and Oconomowoc. Wis, paying consid- erable attention to business. The i'm mediate cause of the illness which ended in his death was q bad cold which Mr Armour caught at the time of the first snow furry in November. At that time MT Armour took his two grandsons. the children of the late Philip D. Armour, Jr, for a ride on q hand sled on the sidewalk in front of the Armour residence. The children enjoyed the sport but Mir Armour got his feet wet. and q cold resulted which confined him to his bed for some time.
 MT Armour was born in Stockbridge Madison county, N. Y., on May 1G 1882. He was one of eight children and like almost every other boy of Madison county, divided his time be- tween working on the farm and going to the academy. But before he was out of school he gave up farm chores and was in business for himself and doing, in small way, in Madison county, the same things that made him rich a good many years later: He bought cattle from the neighboring farmers, butchered and dressed them himself and then hawked the meat about in q wagon through Oneida and Madison counties.
 That was the beginning of MT Ar mour'S business career, the first inter ruption of which was the result of q boy and girl love affair. Armour aud the girl played hockey from school one afternoon and went buggy riding. The boy was expelled next day. That marked what is always called the turning point in mans career. Ar mour went to California. He walked most of the way and rode the rest astride of q mule that he bought just this side of the Rockies for $1GO, about all that he had left of the money that he had saved from his Madison coun- ty butcher business. But Ee reached the Pacific in possession of the mule good spirits and good health, although he had been more than six months on tic road and had had one serious at tack of illness on his journey. He hunted for gold in California until 1856, but his dirt never banned out very we'll. It yielded enough, how- ever. to enable him to make q start in something else, so la came east again as far as Milwaukee,, where he went into tue warehouse and grain business.