The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-02-17
I, P. GRASTY DIES
 NEAR TALLADEG Was One of the South's Very
 Best Friends DIES OF PERlIONlTlS Was Vice President of the Baltimore Manufacturers Record-Had lm- portant Mineral Interests
 In Alabama.

Talladega, February 16.-(Special.)- Thomas P Grasty of Baltimore, a dis tinguished journalist, a member of the staff of the Manufacturers Record, and a man well known in the industrial world. died suddenly al the residence of Al Will Hams in this county, about nine miles west of the city this morning at 3 clock
 MT Grasty had great confidence in the immense gray ore deposits of the Emau- hee mountains, and for some weeks past he has been making experimental borings and tests in order to prepare report of their value to syndicate of Baltimore capitalists. The work was about finished and the contracts between the owners of the mines and the syndicate had been practically agreed upon.
 Saturday he complained of a trouble in his bowels and called in physician Sunday he was sitting up but his condi- tion rapidly grew worse, and this morn ing he died of peritonitis.
 The death of MT. Grasty is distinct loss to the mineral development of this county, as he firmly believed the gray ores of Talladega county to be the most
 
 his death ne was bending his energies to induce money and labor to develop them
 Mir. Grasty for 20 years has been con nected with the Manufacturers Record He had been in bad health for the last five or six years and during that time has not been engaged in active work, having spent most of his time on his farm at Staunton, Virginia, and in the moun- tains of Virginia and Alabama, building up his strength He had been regainlng his health quite rapidly of late and his letters to his business associates on the Manufacturers Record had been very cheerful and full of rejoicing over the restoration of his health.
 He is survived by his widow two sons and d daughter, all living al Staunton except the oldest son. Dr. Grasty, who is adjunct professor of geology in the University of Virginia.
 He was a graduate of Washington and Lee University and also a graduate in law, though he always preferred news paper work to law.
 Probably no man in the country had a wider personal acquaintance with lead ing business men and men in public life in all sections of the country. He had
  ing friends. For many years he was staff correspondent for the Manufacturers Record. In that capacity he visited and studied almost every part of the south, and later on became one of the vice pres idents of the Manufacturers Record Pub fishing company He was born in North Carolina 56 years ago. of distinguished Virginia ancestry, his father having been prominent Pres byterian minister, temporarily stationed in Carolina when Mir Grasty was born
 He was associated with Douglas H. Cor don. Wm c. Seddon and others in the ownership of large mineral properties in Alabama since retiring from active news paper work and on account of his health had given them his attention as far as his health permitted to looking after these mineral interests
 Birmingham physicians were to have gone tosralladega yesterday to perform an operation on Mr Grasty with the hope of saving his life. But the sad inteli- gence of his death was telegraphed to this city just as the surgeons were pre- pairing to leave.
 MT. Grastys body was embalmed and was sent to Birmingham last night The remains will be forwarded to Staunton Va, early this morning, and the funeral day
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