The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1901-01-10
PHILIP ARMOUR DEAD
Well Known Millionaire Packer
Passes Away at Chicago.
ILLNESS OF LONG DURATION

Lords Prayer Was Read While
Life Was Going Out--Brief
Sketch of His Career.
A Chicago special says: Philip Dan
forth Armour, philanthropist, fnan-
cier and multi-millionaire. head of the
J vast commercial establishment that
/ bears his name, died at his home, 2115
Prairie avenue, at 2:45 o'clock Sunday
afternoon..
A muscular affection of the heart,
known to the medical profession as
myocarditis, was the immediate cause
Of death. He had been slowly recov-
ering from pneumonia that for three
weeks had threatened his life. At 9
o'clock his heart gave way under the
strain of his recent illness, his pulse
running up to 103. That was the be-
ginning of the end.
During the day he had realized that
death was near. To those around him
he said:
sT know I am very sick, and am
ready for death when it comes"
Soon after luncheon, and just before
the physician forbade his talking more,
Mr.Armour in feeble tones said that he
would like to hear the Lords Prayer
read. One Of the trained nurses who
had been attending him drew chair
TO the bedside of the dying man and
slowly read from the Bible the prayer
for which the dying man had asked.
It was read sentence by sentence, and
each was repeated by Mir. Armour.
When the stanen" had been repeated
BY him, he sank back on the pillow
and closed his eyes restfully. It was
{ the last word the great finsncier spoke
except feeble fsrewells to his family
little later. =
The end came after two years of ILL
ness. during which Mr.. Armour visit
ed German baths, passed the cold
months in southern California and de-
voted himself largely to an attempt to
restore his health, which, however
had been broken never to be regained.
Estimates of MIR. Armour's own es-
tate run from $40, 600, 900 to $a5, ,000.-
900. This, of course, does not include
the $l5, 600, ,00o or 500, ,000, 900 owned
by the younger members Of his family.
Philip D. Armour, who was in his
sixty-ninth year, made his own life on
lines unique and wholly original with
himself.
From NOT over-rich Oneida county,
New York, farm to the position Of pay
ing more freight and controlling more
provisions than any other man in the
world were two extremes OF his life.
The ancestral Armours were Con-
necticut people, but Philip Armour
was not born until after the family
had moved to Stockbridge, Oneida
county, New York. His birth date
was May Is, 1882.
The California gold fever struck
western New York in 1849, and young
Armour was the first in Stockbridge to
determine to visit the Pacific coast.
He secured the permission OF his par
ents and at that age started, having
three or four companions from the
same neighborhood. The almost in
credible part OF it was that the party
walked nearly the entire distance from
: New York to California.
The commercial sense, which always
predominated in his life, indicated its
presence as soon as he saw the gold
fields of Caifornia. He made money
from the start and at the end of six
months he returned home with for
tnne. Becoming dissatisfied with the
quiet life ofhis native town he went west
again. and together with q brothefsin-
law established large Wholesale gro
Gerry house in Milwaukee.
This venture was also successful
and in . years time he purchased the
largest grain elevator in Milwaukee.
This led to more elevators and rail-
road stock. In 1866 he came to Chi
cago to take charge of the Chicago
branch Of New York packing estab-
ment. The result was that the Chicago
house ceased to be branch and the
west gained the largest packing and
provision plant in the world.
In works of charity Mr.. Armour's
monument will be found in the Ar
mour Institute, to which but short
time ago he gave $3.50, 900 in one re-
memorance. Asked once what he
considered his best paying investment,
he replied: ''The Armour Institute.
& Mr.. Armour was heavy owner in
the Chicago, Milwaukee and st. Paul
railroad company, and in the reorgan-
lied Baltimore and Ohio. He was
largely interested in the Illinois Trust
and Savings, Metropolitan National
and Northern Trust banks, of Chicago,
and in the Armour bank, of Kansas
City. He was director of the North
western Life Insurance company and
was heavy stockholder in the COM
psny which controls the street rail
ways Of Kansas City, Mo-, and Kansas
City, Kas.
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