The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1901-01-07
PHILIP D. ARMOUR DEAD,
THE NJ ULTI- MIL IRE P4 CKER
PASSES AWAYIN CHICAGO.

monta-His Demise VIII Have Little
Effect on the Great Business-Plans
Had Been Carefully Made for Such al
Emergency.
Chicago. Jan. 6-Philip d. Armour
died at his residence in this city to-
night The end came after two years
of illness, during which time Mr.. Ar
mour visited German baths, passed the
cold months in Southern California
and devoted himself largely to an at
tempt to restore his health. For sever
al weeks the millionaire had been liv-
ing at the family home, the usual trip
to Southern California not having been
taken this winter. He came down to
the office in the Home Insurance build
ing but seldom and as the cold weather
increased he did not come at all.
1t was understood in the office that
he had an incipient attack of pneumo-
mia, but it was given out no later than
a week ago that he was on the road to
recovery. 1t was noted, however. that
the constant attendance o. DR.. Frank
Billings, the family physician, at the
bedside of the sick man did not cor
roborate the favorable reports at the
down town office. For several days
death had been feared as the outcome
by the close associates of the great cap
tain of industry. They realized that
the decline from day to day did not
cease and tina. death was near. When
death came his grandchildren were at
the family residence, as was ]. Ogden
Armour, the surviving son.
Mr.. Armour had lost strength stead
lily from day to day since the COM
mencement Of the winter. The pneumo-
MIA was checked. but strength was not
regained. The firm grip he had so
long maintained upon the business of
Armour & Co., whether at the Office or
thousands of miles away. slowly relax
ed. Reports no longer interested him,
as they did during the first months of
his declining health. The sudden death
of his son and namesake nearly year
ago hung heavily on him during the
closing months OF his lie In fact, he
never recovered from the shock he ex-
perienced from that event. 1t stopped
his progress toward recovery in his win
ter home at Pasadena. and it's sorrow
remained fresh until the end.
His treadmill Of work and his firm
grip on affairs were maintained until
the spring of 1899. Then the machine
began to show signs of breaking. Mr..
Armour was reported to be sick man,
and these reports were confirmed when
he sailed for Germany to take baths at
Bad Nauheim. He spent most of the
summer at the baths. and was suffi-
ciently restored in health to take a trip
to Switzerland, where he remained a
month among the mountains. When he
returned to Chicago that fall he looked
we'll and his friends hoped his recovery
was complete. He went to Danforth
Lodge, the summer home of his son,
Philip d. Armour, jr., at Oconomowoc
Lake, Wis, and remained there until
nearly winter. Then he journeyed to
Pasadena in Southern California for
the cold months. All the time he was
at Oconomowoc he made weekly trips
to his office in the Home Insurance
building and was receiving constant re-
ports of the general drift of his busi-
ness affairs.
After the death of Philip D. Armour.
jr., the vast interests of Armour & Co..
which had been carried on as co-part-
nership, 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 prac-
tical ownership of the properties. Some |
years before the grain department had I
been Incorporated under the title of the
Armour Elevating company. The death |
of Simeon B. Armour at Kansas City
n March, 1899 caused no particular
'hange In the Armour interests there as
hey were operated as stock com
oany
So carefully had the plans for the fu-
'ure peen made that the death of Mr. l.
armour Will have little effect on the |,
workings of the great enter
Prise with which he had been SO closely +
oentlhed. 1t is believed all the Ar
nour properties will be held intact IN
II the grandchildren come into their
)wn.
FOR years every enterprise he was in
crested in has been making inmansa
'rof1ts. His holdings of stocks have all
ldvanced largely during the last three F,
ears
Phlllp Danforth Armour, who was in
us slXty-nlnth year, made his own life i
N lines unique and wholly original :
With himself =
From not over rich Oneida county. r
Y. T., farm to the position of paving ,
more freight and controlling more pro- =
'isions than any other man in th, ,
World were the two extremes of his ,
ife
The ancestoral Armours were Connec- :
icut people, but Philip Armour was
lot born until after the family had !
aoved to Stockbridge, Oneida county, ;
7. Y. His birth date was May 16, 1882. y
The California gold fever struck :
yestern New York in 1S49 and young :
-rmour was the first in Stockbridge to !;
etermine to visit the Pacific coast. He ;,
the permission of his parents
nd at the age of seventeen started,
aving three or four companions from
he same neighborhood. The almost =
lcredible part of it was that the party
'alked nearly the entire distance from :.
lew York to California. :
The commercial sense, which always u
in his life, Indicated it's 6
resence as soon as he saw the gold
elds of California. He made money =
'om the start and at the end of six :.
ears he returned home with fortune. u
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