Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1901-01-07
?. D. ARMOUR DEAD.
My Best Friend on Earth, Said
Rev. DR.. GunsauIus.
HIS pRIBE IN ARMOUR INSTITUTE.
With All His Wealth, lie Yet Declared
That His Most Profitable Investment,
Was Ills Great Charitable AFFAIR Lived
to Be 90 -multl-Miliionaire.


/. Chicago, Jan. Phillip Danforth
Armour philanthropist, fnancier and
inulti-miliionaife. head OF the vast
commercial establishment that bears
his name-died ut his home, 2115
Prairie avenue.
muscular election of the heart,
known to the medical profession as
myoearditis, was the immediate cause
of death. He had been slowly recov-
ering from pneumonia that for three
weeks had threatened his life. About
8 o'clock Sunday morning his heart
gave way under the strain Of his re-
cent Illness, his pulse running up to
f03. 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
ID. Armour. IT.. and Mr. and Mrs. j.
Ogden Armour and Rev. Frank Gun
saulus. The millionaire retained con
seriousness until within an hour of bis
death.
death was near. To those around
him he had said:
Il know | am very sick, and am
ready for death when it comes''
Soon after luncheon, and inst be-
fore the physician forbade his talking
more. Mr. Armour, in feeble tones,
said he would like to hear the Lords
Prayer read.
Ono IF thn ff.aipa1 pytrcnc trbn bod
been attending him drew chair to
the bedside and slowly read from the
Bible the prayer for which the dy-
ing man had asked 1t was read SEN
ten1e by sentence, and each was re-
peated by Mr.. Armour When the
"Amen" had been repeated by him
he sank back upon the pillow and
closed his eyes restfully It was the
last word the great financier spoke,
except feeble farewells to his family
little later.
Chicago, Jan. Phillip d. Armour
died at his residence, in Prairie ave-
nue., i'll this city. The end came after
about two years of illness. during
which time Mr.. Armour visited Ger
man baths, passed the cold months
In Southern California, and devoted
himself largely to an attempt to re-
store his health, which, however. had
been broken never to be regained
For several weeks the millionaire
had been living at the old family
home, in Prairie avenue, the 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
increased he did not come at all 1t
was understood in the office that he
had had an incipient attack of pneu-
monia, but ii was given out no later
than 4 week ago that he was on the
road to recovery. 1t was noted how
ever that the close attendance of DIR.
Frank Billings, the family physician.
ut the bedside of the sick man did
not corroborate the Favorable reports
ut the downtown office
For several days death had been
feared as the outcome by the close
associates of the great captain of in
dnstlT. They realized that the de-
cline from day to day did not cease.
and that mere could be but one end.
When death came his grandchildren.
who had SO close 4 place in his heart.
Were at the family residence, as was
j. Ogden Armour, the surviving son.
The sudden death of his son and
namesake from pneumonia nearly
wear ago. hung heavily on him during
the closing months Of his life In
fact. he never recovered from the
shock he experienced from that event.
which occurred at the fathers win
tor home IN Pasadena, where the son
had gone to visit him.
Mr.. Armour was not able to ae-
company the funeral party to Chi
caso. When he did return here he
went direct to Oconomowoc Wis.
and remained there until the chill
weather in the fall drove the summer
cottaeers to their city homes.
After the death of Philip D. Ar
mour, .Ir.. the vast interests of Ar
mour x Co. which had been carried
on as co-paStnership. were incorpor-
ated under the old name of Armour
Go. This was to provide greater
stability Ia case of death. and made
no change in the practical ownership
of properties. Some years before the
grain department had been incorpor-
ated under the title of the Armour
Elevating company. The death Of
Simeon Y. armour at Kansas City. in
March. 1890. caused no particular
change in the Armour interests there.
as they were operated as Il stock
company.
SO carefully had the plans for the
future been made that the death of
Mr. Armour. it was believed. will
have little effect on the outward
working of the great enterprise with
which he had been so closely identi-
fed
Philip d. Armour was in his Goth
year when he died
The Armours We're Connecticut peo-
pie, but Philip Armour was not born
until after the family had moved to
Etockbrdge Oneida county. \. Y.
His birth date was May is. 1892.
The California gold fever struck
Western New York in 1910. and
gnnna sLnlGIlr ,naS tho GrSt in Stanl.