Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-01-10
P. D. ARMOUR lSDEAD
Passed Away at 8 O'clock Sunday
Night in Chicago.
CAUSE OF DEATH WAS HEART DISEASE
His Wealth is Estimated at One Hun
dred Million Dollars-Was Con-
scious to the Last-Died Peacefully,
Surrounded by His Entire Family.

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scous to the Last-Died Peacefully,
Surrounded by His Entire Family.
Chicago. Jan. Phillip D. Armour
died last evening at 6 o'clock. The
end OF the great packer and merchant
was as peaceful as child falling into
deep sleep. To the community his
death was a surprise and shock. He
had been i'll for two years, but no
alarm was felt by his family. Re-
Gently he had several depressing
periods and not until Saturday even
ing did he give any sign of collapse.
The noted financier had an attack
of pneumonia following a bad cold
and he was considered out of dan
ger. Wednesday his heart, which
had given him some trouble showed
signs of weakness again, and the
gravity of his ailment disturbed the
physicians and family.
Mr.. Armour was not unconscious of
his own condition. Saturday after
noon he was attacked by intense pain
which DR.. Frank Billings pronounced
acute myocarditis. His son j. Ogden
Armour, Mrs. J. Ogden Armour and
Mrs. Philip d. Armour, Jr., were sum-
moned to the house and remained at
the bedside all night with Mrs
Armour.
Death Ends a Calm Sleep.
His breathing was labored yester-
day morning and the heart pains caus-
ed intense suffering He spoke to his
family as one who knew his hours
We're numbered. AT 3 o'clock in the
afternoon he sank into a comatose
state His family stood by the bed
side and watched the ebbing of his
life. With them were DIR. Billings and
DR.. j. A. Caps. For three hours he
fingered in calm and quiet sleep
and his passage into death was al
most unnoticed by the watchers.
The natural heir to the vast inter
ests that were controlled by Mr.. Arm
our is j. Ogden Armour. his son, on
whom the great burden doubtless will
fall
For two years Mr.. Armour knew
that his days were numbered. Short
ly after his first attack of heart trou-
BILE his brother Augustus w. Armour
of Kansas City, died and the shock
affected him greatly. He sought
health at the curative springs of Maui
helm, Germany, and returned greatly
improved Last winter vile in Cali
forni his son, Philip d. Armour, Jr.,
was stricken with pneumonia and
died.
Philip d. Armour was born at
Stockbridge, Madison county. N. ",
in 1882. His father was DanforthS
Armour, a farmer of old New Eng.
land stock, and his mother, whose.
maiden name was Juliane Brooks,
traced her ancestry back to the early
days of the Puritans. Married in
Union, Conn, in 1926, Danforth Arm
our and his bride moved to New York
and reared their large family of six
boys and two girls in the hills or
Madison county and gave them the
advantages of the education of the
neighborhood-th district school and
the academy of the county seat.
Philip d. Armour's boyhood was
like that of the average farmer boy
of that period He worked about the
farm and attended the school and
academy. At 20 years he was a
strong, robust man, the leader of his
associates, a shrewd trader at the
store and noted for his industry and
helpfulness to the family. He had
the gold fever in 1S49, but his, serv-
ices at home were needed and the
keen young farmer, schooled by a
sturdy father, had learned to hold
himself in restraint before the duties
of life.
Becomes an Argonaut.
Three years later. in 1852, when
the other boys had grown old enough
to be of support to their father and a
surplus OF labor was apparent, Philip
announced to his father that the way
was now open for the journey to Cali
fornia and the approval of his father
was cheerfully given to the boy who
had demonstrated strong selfreliance,
independence, courage and self-con-
troll. In the spring of 1852 Philip was
one of party of thirty people that
left Oneida, N. Y, and six months lat
er the toilsome journey over the
plains was completed and the farmer
boy became miner.
Here again his industry shone out
among his fellows. The best claims
had been gathered up before young
Armour reached the golden state, but
while others were fitting from place
to place hoping to make a strike the
broad-shouldered New Yorker stuck
to his claim and worked over every
bit of earth. Four years of mining,
quietly and unostentatiously enabled
him to gather few thousand dollars.
He returned home in 1856. He did
not boast of his earnings; in fact, he
was just as reserved about the results
of his four years in California as he
was in his latter days about a wheat
deal.
Comes West Second Time.
The humdrum life of a country dis
trict in New York offered no induce
ments to the active spirit of Philip D.
Armour. He had seen a wider hor-
lion in the world and the limitations
of the hills of his native county could
not hold him and again he went west,
| hut not IN California He was seeking