Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1901-01-10
PHILIP D. ARMOUR DEAD.
The Head of the Great PACKING 4 trm ano
MultimilIioaaire Has Passed
Away.

Observation-Disclosures, ~fnancier and
muItimillioraire, head of the vast
commercial establishment that bears
his name--died at his home, 2115 Pral-
RE avenue, at /: A o'clock yesterday
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-
erfae from pneumonia that for three
weeks had threatened his life. AT nine
o'clock Yesterday 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
family when he died. Those at his
bedside besides his physician and
nurses were his wife, Mrs. Philip u.
Armour, Jr., and Mr.. and Mrs. j.
Ogden Armour, and Rev-Frank W.Gun-
saulus. The millionaire regained con-
seriousness until within an hour OF his
death.
During the day he had realized tina
death was near. To those around him
he had said: 81 know I am very sick,
and am ready for death when IL
comes"
Soon after luncheon, and just be-
fore the physician forbade his talking
more, Mr.. Armour in feeble tones, said
! that be would like to near the Lords
prayer read.
One of the trained nurses who had
49, 49, Ii-o l-our n chair tn
the bedside and slowly cad from the
Bible the prayer for which the dying
man had asked. It 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 restful-
ly. 1t was the last word the great
fnancier spoke except feeble fare
wells to his family a little later.
The end came after two years of ILL
ness, during which time Mr.. Armour
visited German baths, passed h 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.
For several weeks the dead million
aire has been living at the old family
home in Prairie avenue, the usual trip
to southern California not having
been taken this winter. He came down
] to the Office in the Home Insurance
building but seldom, and as the cold
increasedhe didnot come at all. TWAS
understood in the Office that he had
an incipient attack of pneumonia, but
it was given put no later than a week
ago hat he was on the road to recov.
cry.
It was noted, however. hat the con.
slant attendance of DR.. Frank Billings,
the family physician, at the bedside of
the sick man did not corroborate the
favorable reports at the downtown
office.
For several days death had been
feared as the outcome by the close as
sociates of the great captain of indus
try. They realized that the decline
from day to day did not cease, and
that there could be but one end.
When death came his grandchildren,
who had so close a place in his heart,
were at the family residence, as was
j. Ogden Armour, the surviving son.
The death of his son, Philip d. AR.
mour, Jr., in southern California, on
January 90, 1900, was a great shock
to the health-broken man. The son
had gone on a visit to his father and
was taken suddenly with pneumonia.
His death followed with scarcely a
days warning. The son had largely
interested the father and inherited
the business ability Of the Armours
and was closely following the foot
steps of the head when he was strick-
en- down. HIS beautiful home, com.
pleted but a year or two before at
Michigan avenue and Thirty-seventb
street, told of his love of art.
Mr.. Armour was not able to accom-
pany the funeral party to Chicago.
When he did return here he went di-
rect to Oconomowoc, and remained
there until the chilly weather in the
fall drove the summer cottagers to
this city.
After the death of Philip D.. Armour,
Jr., the vast interests of Armour & Co.,
which had been carried on as a CO.
partnership, were Incorporated under
the old name of Armour & Co. This
was to provide greater stability in
case of death and made no change in
the practical ownership of the prop
critics.
So carefully had the plans for the
future been made that the death of
MI. Armour will have little effect on
the outward working of the great en-
terprise with which he had been SO
closely identified. 1t is believed all
the Armour properties will be held in
tact until the grandchildren come into
their own.
Estimates of Mr.. Armour's own es-
tate run from SO, 900, 900 to $685. 900, 900.
This of course does not include the
$751; o 900 or $780, O0,0 900 owned by the
younger members of the family. For
years every enterprise he was inter-
ested in has been making immense
profits. His holdings of stock have all
advanced largely during the last three
years.
Philip d. Armour, who was in his
sixty-ninth year. made his own life
on lines unique and wholly original
with himself. From a not over rich
Oneida county, N. Y, farm to the po-
sition of paying more freight and con-
trolling more provisions than any
other a in the world were the two
extremes of his life.