The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-04-15
lanes H. ECKELS
CALLED TO DEATH
Garner Comptroller of the
treasury Found Dead in Bed
by His Butler.
VICTIM OF HEART DISEASE
,urs AND DAUGHTER IN EU'
ROPE.

-..-.u, AurfI thames II. Eckels,
.;s.v+ or the Commercial National
If this city and formerly comp
p.n1- of fine currency, died here today Of
io. disease. MI Eckels died while
/ .seap in his bed.
The fact that he was dead was discov-
"A nv the butler. who entered Mr.
-,.l,le. room after hearing a telephone
thin ring continuously without receiving
~, answer. other members of the family
.-, summoned. Dr. Frank S. Churchill
.ro # as his opinion that Mr.. Eckels
4 Id beeu dead for some hours
Mrs Eckels and her daughter Phoebe,
-g roarg old are i'm Paris. where the lat
- is attending a finishing school for
eirIs They have been abroad since last
kaU and planned to return to Chicago in
fcu- weeks They were at once COM
rrriested with by cable. II is under
s'ood they viii sail from France for New
York tomorrow
Died on Eve of Party.
The death of MIR. Eckels came on the
o., Of a breakfast party which he had
manned for a number OF his friends and
I.ti,es Judge X. NJ Lands OF the
t.Js-aI district court. Mrs. Lands. Judge
and Mrs T. H. Gary OF New York. Mr..
gr5 Mrs George n. Eckels. brother and
sistar-in-iaw Of the deceased, and others
,.are to have been his guests.
lanes A Eckels of Princeton. father OF
lanes H. Eckels. died two months ago
on the morning of the death of the elder
FckaIe the son was a host of former
President Cleveland. The former presi-
dent and Mr.. Eckels were at breakfast
whom news Of the fathers death was re
caiyed at the Eckels residence Mr. Eek
ais was kept in ignorance Of the fact for
several hours until Mr.. Cleveland had left
the city.
Organic Heart Disease.
Tt developed during the day that the
prfs0u who was trying to communicate
With Mr.. Eckeis over the telephone. the
ringing of which led to the discovery OF
the death. was George N. Eckels, a
brother Half an hour later ne was called
TO his own telephone and notified Of his
hrothcrS death. 4 post mOrtem eXamina-
ton was held and statement issued Civ
ing the cause of death as organic heart
disease. \ formal cOrOner's inquest VIII
be held tomorrow morning. The funeral
will be- held Tuesday afternoon from the
Fourth resbyterian church. Rev. VIM
hoffman will conduct the services. Inter
ment will not take place at once. II nav
iHg been decided to place the body in a
vault until the return of Mrs. Ecke1S and
daughter when a private funeral will be
he'd.
Prominent in Business Life.
Mr. Ec5els was a stakeholder and was
prominent i'm the management OF several
concerns. among them being the Hewitt
Manufacturing company and the Union
Traction company. of which he was vice
president: the Featherstone Foundry and
Machine company, the Chicago Real Es-
tate Trustees association. the Allis-Chal-
mers company. the American and British
Securities company, the Bankers Trust
company of New York and the First Ma
ti0nsl bank Of Baltimore. He was men,
Der Of the Union League, the Merchants
and the Commercial clubs of Chicago. and
Sf various clubs in the east. Mr.. Eckels
vas one Of the receivers OF the Union
Fraction company appointed by Federal
Judge Grosscup several years ago.
Biographical Sketch.
Mr. Eckels was born at Princeton. Ill,
November -, 1856. and most of his life
had been spent IN Illinois. He received
an early education in the schools of his
native city, later taking up the study OF
law at Albany, y. Y, graduating from
the Albany law school in 1880. He prac-
iced law at Ottawa. Ill, until appointed
ny President Cleveland to the post OF
comptroller of the currency in 1893
Mr. Eckels during the agitation of the
currency question became prominent as
an advOcatOr of gold standard. Always
Democrat he became affiliated in 1885,
with the gold standard Democrats. He
retained the office of comptroller of the
currency until the end of President Cleve-
lands term in 1897. when he became pres
ident OF the Commercial National bank
Of this city.
Mr.. EckeIs leaves only four near rela-
tiyes They are his wife and daughter
his brother. George NJ. Eckels, and a sis
ter Mrs. Jane f. Palmer of Princeton
ill., George NJ. Eckels is an attorney OF
this city.