The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-09-16
WHERE MR MORGAN
WILL LIVE HERE
Great Financier Soon to Spend
Several Weeks in This
City.
WILL BE PROMINENT FIGURE
House Will Probably Be Scene
of Many Functions in Honor
OF Delegates.

With the great Episcopal Convention
less than three weeks off, attention Is
beginning to centre on the personnel of
what will be one of the most distln-s
guislled gatherings OF churchmen anu
lnymenF that has been seen in Richmonn
in many years One Of the The most p pier-
ront Morgan. the eminent tinancier ana
banker, OF New York City, who has at
tended the last two gatherings o. lhe
EPISCOPAL Church, being "a, d 81 ihe fa -
nous convention which assembled IN
San Francisco. Mr.. Morgan's great
wealth and his liberality to the church
have made him prominent hg y re ~ ~
irencc II sns financial world OF TINS ms
principal contributor to the great Ca
Is in process OF erection on Morningside
Heights, New York City. He has also
been a GENEROUS patron. of missions
both at home and abroad. Outside Of
fine arts has made hin, famous through:
out the country. He has been director
in the Metropolitan Museum. OF New
York, and has personally collected one
ures ever brought into this country.
The Thomas House.
For the period OF the convention Mr..
Morgan will carry out in Richmond the
custom no has laid down in othersc cities.
and. as stated some months ago. his
agents have rented for October the ia
nous old Thomas mansion. at the corner
OF Second and Grace Streets, where the
New York banker and millionaire will
entertain In handsome style during the
weeks OF the Episcopal Convention:
The house which Will be Mr.. Nor
.gan's Headquarters stands in one of the
most desirable sections OF Grace Street
and is centrally located for the va
rious functions which will come be-
blocks away sEthe Jefferson Hotel on
Franklin Street. which will be In a
measure the headduarters OF. the, con-
yentlon- Near the hotel is tho resi-
OF the convention. which has been
placed Mt tile disposal of Bishop Glib
son of8tliez fDtotese4 Of Virginia. and
will be used as a sort of bishops club
for the period Of the gathering. stroa4
is st. Paul's Church. where the con-
ventton will hold It's sessions, and here
the delegates from all parts OF the
United States will sit In pews once
Lees and the old aristocracy of Rich
mond.
The Thomas house is one OF the
largest private homes In the city. boz
Ing u square three story br aL,' !; man 7,
cupy a half block along the Grace
Street front. Ample stables and out.
buildings are Oh tho premises. and
tho house itself is fitted and furnished
In style which represents the pe 7
taste OF an old regime OF Virginia
: Mr.. James Thomas, the founder of
the family and builder OF the house
was the pioneer nnanufaetur ,e Of o.
baceo on large scale In Richmond
cessioa Of tobacco mlllIonaires,s,
has produced. The business establish
cd BY Mr.. Thomas afterwards became
the &c. Williams II bacco Company,
ana is to-day one OF the largest con
stituent branches Of the great tobac-
60 combine OF the country, tn Ameri-
can Tobacco COMPANY.
The present house was built shortly
After the death OF Mr.. Thomas and
Tor, Mrs Thomas IN. rutherford, by
whom It Ia now owned.
Mr.. Thomas WAS q patron OF edllca I
ton and literature. and his beq!lests
to Richmond College make the foun-
dalton OF the .endowmentGof that in-
stitutlon, One gof the daughters of Mr.,
Thomas married Dir. j IL. NJ. Curry,
we'll known throughout the country
Az an author, educator and statesman.
Dr. Curry, besides being q professor OF
note, an huthor of several standard y,
works on litical economy y y, J, his
minister to SPAIN He was for mann
years the secretary OF tho Peabody
fund for education. and inathls capac-
ity had u wide nscl yin nj anca ~ ltl, ed "
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