The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1914-10-20
DANIEL A. T0MPK|NS
DIES AT MONTREAL
Captain of Industry known
From Maine to Texas.
CO-FOUNDER OF OBSERVER
was Native of EdgctieId County.
This state. and a Man of
Large interests.

Large interests.
Charlotte, Oct. 19.-Daniel Au-
gustus Tompkins, who with the late
Joseph p. Caldwell, re-established
The Charlotte Observer in 1892. and
who for 80 years was one of the
leading men in the South and was
known from Maine to Texas, died
Sunday at 12:45 o'clock at his sum-
mer home at Montreal. Death w:.s
due to paralysis from which he had
suffered for four years, he having
suffered slight stroke on a train
journeying to Greensboro four years
ago. Since the beginning of his i'll
ness he devoted his time in an effort
to regain his health but without
avail. Up to the last few months
his mental vigor was undimmed.
He left Charlotte in June for Mon
treat, accompanied by trained nurses
and relatives. For a month past it
was realized that his strength was
going fast. Three weeks ago he
suffered a second stroke which de-
prived him Of speech and for the
past fortnight he was unconscious
for the greater part OF the time. He
realized several days ago, saying to
those in the room that he knew the
end was near and that he was ready
to go.
News of Mr.. Tompkins' death was
received in Charlotte with sorrow.
Since 1882 he had been one of the
best known men in North Carolina.
was one OF the most remarkable mon
OF the South. He was a man of
strong intellectual. executive, inven-
tive ability, forceful in thought, de-
cisive in action and fearless cf con-
victions.
He developed the cotton seed oil
industry in the South, built 200 cot
ton seed oil mills, number of fer
tilizer works. electric light plants,
and improved ginneries and other
industrial plants. But textile school
buildings and assisted in tno organ
ization of the textile schools for
North Carolina, South Carolina and
Mississippi
Mr. Tompkins WAS a recognized
leader of the industrial and eco
nomic life of the new South. He
was president of the D. A. Tompkins
Company. president of the Atherton
mills, president of the High Shoals
mills and FisHiic!d Manufacturing
Company. He was a member of the
Engineers Club of New York and
one of the founders Of the Charlotte
Sanatorium.
Mr.. Tompkins was Just So years
old, having been born October II.
1852, nine miles north of Edgefield.
S. c. He was the son of the lat,;
DR.. Dewitt Clinton Tompkins of
Edgefeld county. His mother be-
fore marriage was Miss Hannah Vir-
ginia Smyly. Mr.. Tompkins was by
birth representative Southern man,
one of his early ancestors. Stephen
Tompkins, having located in Vir-
ginia as far back as 1850. and many
OF his relatives were men of merit
and distinction in their professions.
His father was not only a physician
OF skill and learning but a gentle
man of bright, cheerful disposition
and genial temperament. Thus he
attracted to him all who came with
in the sphere of his influence.
The body will be brought to Char
lotte Tuesday night Interment will
be made in Elmwood cemetery here.
Funeral arrangements had not been
perfected last night, but the service
Will probably be held Wednesday.