The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1901-01-11
ARMOUR
IS DEAD
Wealthy Head of the Pack
ing House Dies Suddenly
Has Been in Poor Health for
Years and his Heart
Played out
FROM POVERTY TO WEALTH
A Poor Boy on a New York
Farm was his Start
And he Died, Rich, Powerful
and Famed for Generous
Charity
FROM POVERTY TO WEALTH
A Poor Boy on a New York
Farm was his Start

chicago, Jan. O-Inlllp DanlOrIn
Armour philanthropist, tinancier
head of the vast
commercial establishment that bears
his name-died at his home, 2ll5
Prairie avenue, at 5:45 this morning.
A muscular affection of the heart,
known Gas myocarditis, was the i'm
mediate cause of death. He had been
slowly recovering from pneumonia,
that for three weeks had threatened
his life. At 8 O'Clock this morning
his heart gave way under the strain of
his recent illness, his pulse running
up to 1903. That was the beginning of
the end.
The end came after two years of
illness during which time Mr.. Armour
visited German baths, passed the cold
months in Southern California and
devoted himself largely to an attempt
to restore his health, which, however,
bad been broken never 10 be regained.
Fon several weeks he had been living
at the old family home on Prairie av-
enue, the usual trip to Southern
California not having been taken this
winter.
The death of his son, Philip ID. Ar
mour, Jr. in Southern California on
January 20, 1900, was a great shock
to the health-broken man. The son
had gone on visit to his iather 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 Armors, and
was closely following the footsteps OF
his father when he was stricken
down.
So carefully had the plans for the
future been made that the death of Mr..
Armour will have little effect on the
outward working of the great enter
prise with which he had been so close
ly identified. 1t is believed all the
Armor properties will be held intact
until the grandchildren comeinto their
own.
Estimates of Mr.. Armour's own
estate run from $40, 900, 900 to $25, 000,'
600. This, of course, does not include
the 81. ZOO, 900 or $50, 900, 900 owned by
the younger members of the family
For years every enterprise he was in
terested in has been making immense
profits. His holdings of stock have
all advanced largely daring the las
three years.
Philip ID. Armour, who was in his
Goth year, made his own lire on lines
unique and wholly original with him
self.
From a not over-rich Oneida county
n. Y, farm to the positionlof paying
more freight and controlling NOR,
provisions than any other man in thu
world were the two extremes of hi
life.
The ancestral Armours were Con
necticnt people, but Philip Armou
was not born until after the famil.
had moved to Stockbridge, Oneida
county, N. Y.
The California gold fever strucl
Western New York in lS49 and youni
Armour was the first in Stockbridg
to determine to visit the Pacific coast
He secured the permission OF hi
parents and at the agelof II started
having three or four companions fror
the same neighborhood. The Hlmos
incredible part of it was that the part
walked nearly the entire distance fror
New York to California.
The commercial sense, which Away
predominated in his life, indicated it
presence as soon as he sa'
the goldfelds of California. He mad
money from the start, and at tn
end of six years he returned HON
with fortune. Becoming dissatisfie
with the quiet life of his native tow
he came West again and together wit
a brother-in-law established a larg
Wholesale grocery house in milwaukee,
This venture was also successful an
in a years. time he purchased II
largest grain elevator in milwaukee,
This led to more elevators and raj
road stock. In 1866 he came to Chicago
to take charge of the Chicag
branch of New York pacI
ing establishment. The result WI
that the Chicago house ceased TO be
branch and the West gained Il
largest packing and provision pla
in the world.
u Mr.. Armour n arried Miss MalviI