New-York tribune., 1903-02-27
r. j. G-4TLING DEAD.
Succumbs TO Heart Disease an Has
Danphter's arms.

Richard Jordan Gatliug the inventor OF the
Calling gun and the recently perfected auto
plough. 6ied suddenly yesterday afternoon from
heart disease and grip at the home of his SON.
in-law. Hugh o. Pentecost. in the Aberdeen
No. 249 West hundred-and-seventh-st The
inventor was eighty-four years old.
Mr.. Gatiing had been suffering from heart
disease for about three years. OF late it mao
been aggravated by an attack of influenza IL
was the general feeling of i'll health that leo
Mr. Calling 10 leave St Louis. where he mao
been for time on business. 10 come 20 TINS
city. visit his daughter and her husband, and at
the same time get = rest. Mrs. Gatling had been
travelling with him, and they reached here TWO
weeks ago Mr.. Gating seemed 10 be recover
ing He decided yesterday morning TO go down
TO the Office of The Scientific American. at
No. 3e1 Broadway do a little business and re
turn home.
The trip did him no good. Mrs. Gatlng and
Mrs. Pentecost went to luncheon, and Mir. CAT
ling lay down a couch in the room near by
Just as Mrs. Pentecost sat down. the telephone
bell rang in the room in which Mr.. Gatling was
lying She hurried in. took down the receiver,
and her husband. Mr.. Pentecost, spoke to her
from his office in the New-York Life Building.
Mrs. Pentecost's attention was Immediately dis
1racted by the heavy breathing of ner father.
She asked Mr.. Pentecost TO wait moment
while she went 10 her father. and then told her
husband of Mr. Gatlng's condition Mr. Pente-
cost told his wife to call q physician and he
would return home at once Mrs Gatling came
into the room. having heard her daughters eX-
cited tones, 10 see what the trouble was.
See If you can do anything: I'll get the doc
tor said Mrs. Pentecost as she called a mes
sencer boy in the apartment hall and told him
10 get DR. Charles p Duffy, of No. 211 West
One-hundred-and-sevent Mrs. Pentecost
ran back and found her father worse. He was
hardly able to catch his Breath, and his daugh-
ter took his head in her arms, TO see if it would
help him. She bolstered him up, but he was
limp. and she had TO use her strength TO keep
his head and shoulders Alright. Mrs. Gatling
was bending over him, watching the symptoms
in an agony. Then came the last throe. but
they did not know it. and by the time DR.. Duffy
had arrived Mr. Calling was dead
Richard Jordan Gatling was born in Hertford
County N c. on September II, 1878 When
g boy he made his first invention. assisting ms
father TO perfect a machine for sowing cotton
seed. He later invented a machine for sowing
rice and adapted il TO the sowing OF wheat ana
had IL patented. He received a degree from the
Ohio Medical College in 1880, but never prac-
Used medicine Mr. Gatlngs greatest invention,
and the one which brought his name peIore Ile
public. was the invention OF the GatlnS Sn Sun.
This was A revolving gun. invented IN 1oo-'
which fired al a rapid rate. In 1886 he IN
vented q new gun metal. composed OF steel ana
.lur,inun Congress voted him S4OtoO Tor
proof experiments in new method OF casrli.s sun.
cannon shortly after this Invention MI Cat
linz invented several other Appliances now III
,7ractical llse among which Is a hefnpbreaklhS
machine steam plough, etc ,.,..
The funeral and burial VIII pe az Io;,s a
~ ca+Iing left widow. two sons-hlchdru n
1.atli7r and Robert B. Gatling-and a oaushlei'
Mrs H. O. Pentecost-