Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1901-01-07
PHILIP D. ARMOUR DEAD
FAMOUS PACKER PASSES AWAY AT
CHICAGO HOME.
He Had Been In Failing Health for
the Past Two
Years.

A dispatch from Chicago last night says:
Philip Danforth Armour, philanthropist,
financier and multimillionaire, head Of the
| vast commercial establishment that bears
his name, died at his home, 2115 Prairie
! avenue at 5:45 o'clock this afternoon.
| A muscular affection of the heart, known
| to the medical profession as myocarditis
was the immediate cause Of death. He
had been slowly recovering from pneumo-
mia that for three weeks had threatened
| his life At . o'clock this morning his
! heart gave way under the strain of his re-
cent illness, his pulse running up to 1O3.
That was the beginning of the end.
! Mr.. Armour was surrounded by his fami-
ly when he died Those at his bedside be-
sides his physician and nurses were his
wife, Mrs. Philip D. Armour, jr., and Mr..
and Mrs ]. Ogden Armour and Rev. Frank
consciousness until within an hour of his
death. During the day he had realized
that death was near. To those around
him he said:
II know 1 am very sick and am ready for
death when it comes"
Soon after luncheon and just before the
physician forbade his talking more Mr.. Ar
mour in feeble tone said that he would like
| to hear the Lords Prayer read.
! One of the trained nurses who had been
attending him drew a chair to the bedside
| ana SLOWLY TedU lTOil tIlc blDlc lIe pI dy SI
| for which the dying man had asked. 1t
was read sentence by sentence, and each
was repeated by Mr.. Armour. When the
Amen" had been repeated by him he sank
| back on the pillow and closed his eyes rest
! fully. 1t was the last word the great
| financier spoke except feeble farewels to
| his family little later
Philip Armour was born in Stockbridge,
| Oneida county N. Y, May 16, 1882. The
! California gold fever struck western New
| York in 1919 and young Armour was the
| first in StOckbridge to determine to visit
the Pacific coast. He obtained the per-
mission of his parents and at the age of
seventeen started, having three or four
companions from the same neighborhood.
The almost incredible part of it was that
! the party walked nearly the entire distance
! from New York to California.
| The commercial sense. which always pre-
| dominated in his life, indicated its presence
as soon as he saw the gold fields of Califor-
MIA. He made money from the start and
| at the end of six years he returned home
with a fortune. Becoming dissatisfied with
| the quiet life of his native town, he came
west again, and together with a brother
| in-law, established a large wholesale grocery
house In Milwaukee, This venture was also
| successful, and in a years time he pur-
chased the largest grain elevator in Mil
waukee This led to more elevators and
railroad stock In 1866 he came to Chicago
| to take charge of the Chicago branch of
a New York packing establishment. The
result was that the Chicago house ceased
| TO DE q DTdncn ana tne west SdiIleu TIE
largest packing provision plant in the
| world.
The property interests for which Mr.. Ar
| mour stood are estimated at $50 000Oo0
! His personal share of this property is esti-
mated at from S25.OO0.0 600 to $50, 900, 900. In
| works of charity Mr.. Armours monument
! will be found in the Armour Institute, to
which but a short time ago he gave S75OOOO
| in one remembrance. Asked once what he
| considered his best paying investment he
! replied, THE Armour Institute
! The Armour Institute today represents
! an investment on the part of Mr.. Armour
and his brother Joseph of S275o,o00, and
a yearly expense for maintenance of $780,
900.
| Mr. Armour married Miss Malvina Belle
/ Ogden, daughter Of Jonathan Ogden of
! Cincinnati, in October, 1862 They have
/ had two children-Phip D. Armour, jr.,
! who died year ago, and J. Ogden Armour.
/ who seems destined by character, training
/ and circumstances, to succeed his father
! as the head of the Armour house.
! OF the five brothers who have been identi-
/ fed with the upbuildng of the Armour
/ enterprises Herman o. Armour. who went
! to New York in 1871 to look after the in
! terests of the copartnership, is the only
| survivor.
Joseph f. Armour. who came to Chicago
/ in 1863 and gave his attention to super
vision of the packing business, died sew
/ eral years ago.
/ Simon Z. Armour, who for many years
! directed the Kansas City packing business
! died in March, 1899.
Andrew Watson Armour, who managed
/ the banking interests of the Armours in
Kansas City died in 1893.