The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-05-21
Railway Magnate Sue
cumbs After Illness of
Several Weeks.
HAD BEEN LOSING
ALL FACULTIES
Long Identified in Connection
With the Rockefellers for Share
in Conceiving and Developing
Standard Oil Company.
Planned "Over-sea" Line
to Key West.

West Palm Beach. Fla, May 20
Henry VI. Flagler, aged eighty three
years the noted capitalist and railroad
magnate. died at his winter home here
this morning. after an illness of sew
eral weeks. The octopenarian recently
sustained a fall from steps in his home,
and because OF his advanced age. his
recovery had not been Anticipated
For the past few weeks Mr. Flagler
had been losing practically ali of his
faculties. and his death was momen-
tarily expected Several of his rela-
tives and business associates had been
summoned to the hnanciers bedside.
The body Will be buried in a. mau-
soleum at 81. Augustine. in the yard of
the Memorial Church which he gave
10 the Presbyterians
AT Mr.. Flaglcr's bedside were his son.
Harry. who arrived yesterday from Eu-
rope. and Rev. George Morgan. d. D..
his pastor. who will conduct the fu
neral services
Sketch of His Life.
Henry NJ Flagler. Standard oil mag
nate. railroad builder builder and
owner OF hotels. and the man who
made Florida, was ono of the small
coterie of men who were associated
with John -. Rockefeller in founding
the Standard Oil Company. and became
enormously rich with the growth of
that gigantic corporation. His father
vas Ni poor Presbyterian preacher in
Canandaigua. ~ y, who found il rather
difficult task to provide the neces-
saries of life for himself and family
on an annual salary OF $500 In that
little village south OF Rochester Henry
NJ. Flagler was born in 1880
lie went 10 school in Canandaigua
until he had reached his fourteenth
year. when he decided 10 earn his own
living in order to relieve the stress Of
u i.
With few dollars in his pocket and
carpetbag containing his other be-
| longings in his hand, he started from
his home and walked nine miles TO
Medina. where he obtained passage to
Buffalo on freight boat, via the Erie
Canal During the long journey he
subsisted OF the lunch which his
, mother had packed in his bag. In Buff
! falo he took a vessel for Sandusky.
which he reached after a stormy pas
sage of three days. almost worn out
by seasickness
From Sandusky young FlaGler pushed
on to the little Ohio village of Repub-
lie When he arrived there he had
5-franc piece, French gold coin
equivalent to about one American dol
lar; cents in silver and four copper
pennies. The 5-franc piece he never
spent. II is one of the most trea sured
relics of his early career which he left
to his heirs.
Works in Country store.
At Republic he obtained work in a
country store for 50 month and his
board In ten months his pay was in
creased 40 per cent. or about 40 cents
a week He worked hard and saved
his money, gradually working his way
up until lie earned about $500 a year
After he had accumulated a little
money he moved to Bellevue. small
place in the adjoining county, and went
into the grain business. John D. Rookie
Teller was then commission merchant
in Cleveland. and Flagler sent him
many carloads OF wheat. which Rookie
feller sold for him. FlaRler also ac-
quired an interest in a dstllery, which
gave him al outlet for considera BILE
quantity of grain. When he left Bel
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