The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-07-12
DEATH OF INGALLS,
NOT UNEXPECTED
For Months Health of Noted
Railroad Man Had Been
Declining.
END COMES AT HOT SPRINGS
For Twelve Years He Served as
President of Chesapeake
and Ohio Railway
END COMES AT HOT SPRINGS

Hot Springs. Va. July li.-Mclyillc
r. ingalls,. Nuancicr and railroad man,
died hore earlv to-day of heart failure.
Mr., Ingalls, had been AT his summer
home here for som. time. Members
or the family and friends say he had
been gradually declining for months.
but his Illness had been more marked
during the last few weeks. Three
days ago he suffered from an ulcerat"d
tooth, and the shock OF treatment was
fatal lie became unconscious soon
aftsrward. aud was only reused once
or twic. before he died.
Melville Il, ingalls,. Jr. summoned
hurriedly from New York. arrived at
the deathhed and was recognized by
his father once during the last hours.
Mrs. ingalls, the widow, and a dnugh
ter Miss Gladys ingalls,. also were at
thc bedside when death came.
FUNERAL. Will. HE
HELD ~ CINCINNATI
The body will bc taken TO Cincinnati
Tomorrow night on "a special train.
and the funeral services viii be held
at o'clock Monday afternoon at the
Unitarian Church there. Burial will
be in tho family plot in Cincinnati.
These pallbearers have been selected:
Charles i. TAFT. John w. Warrington.
Harry Gcss,. Arthur Sperm. Frank
Wibourg. Judson Harmon r. r. Os-
borne. J. G. r. Scarborough w. w
Brown. Joseph Willy. William Worth
ington. and q =. Holmes all Of Cin-
eiunati. and George Simson. Of Los
Angeles.
Beside the widow ana daughter Mr..
ingalls, is survived by four sons. Mel
Vile T.. ingalls, Jr.. and Fay ingalls,.
OF New Yorl; George IL ingalls,. OF
Chicago. and Albert : Ingalls,. OF
Cleveland
No statement was made here on be-
half OF the family as TO the extent OF
the dead mans estat. further ;han
that there is will aud that his
death having heen anticipated. his af-
FAIRS had been set in order Ii was
said he Withdrew from ali active busi-
ness connections some time ago. and
hitd disposed OF many OF his interests
10 those whom he wished to have
them after his death
Until two years ago. Mr.. Ingalls, was
chairman ot the board .; directors of
the Eig -Four Railroad. IN. transporta-
tion line with which his n.,no Was
most closely Identified. although he
was as powerful a figure in what gen
orally IL known as I'll" Vanderbilt
group OF railroads. Beside his home
here. he had = home in Cincinnati and
a new one in Washington. l.. =.
MIR. Ingals was in his scv.niy-sec
ond year lie was born 1T Harrison.
sc. 'n 1872; was reared Oh i farm ANA
educated ~ Eowdcin and harvard. II.
was graduated as Il lawyer ana began
~ ,tite - N'itE, NJ. pul soon removed
10 Boston, and III 1857 was elected ii
mcinner OF the state Senate.
FoR YEARS PRESIDENT
OF CHESAPEAKE AND u!ifo
itis career as railroad man ANA
finnncier began in 1870. when he be
came president. and a Year later re-
cciVer OF tn" old Indianapolis Cincin-
natl and Lafayette Railroad In reor-
canizations he created the Cincinnati
indianapolis. st Louis and Chicago
anu later consolidated it with other
railroads. forming the Ei,s -Four sys-
tenn, of which he was chairman He
was president Of the Chesapeake and
ohio from 1855 TO 1900. was Democra-
TIC candidate for Mayor OF Cincinnati
IN 1903, and president of the National
tivi" Federation in 1905. He was
ais" interested III banking in Cincin-
natl.