The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1916-12-05
JOHN D. ARCHBOLD,
OIL MAGNATE, DEAD
President Of Standard Com.
psny, Succumbs After Brave
Fight for Life.
OPERATION TWO WEEKS AGO
Wife and Three Children at Mil
, Iionaire's Bedside When
the End Comes.

TARRYTowN, N. Y, Dec. 5.-John
d. Archbold. the Standard Oil mag
nate. died at $3.50 a. m. today ut his
home On South Broadway here.
Death resulted from complications,
following an operation for appen-
dictis. performed November 81.
Archbold's body viii rest in the
family mausoleum at the north end
OF Sleepy Hollow Cemetery. where
the body of Mrs. John ID. Rockefeller
, was placed before being taken to
Cleveland.
AZ His bedside.
With Archboid at the end were Mrs.
Archbold and their children. John r..
Archbold. Mrs. Michael N. Van Beuren
and Mrs Armar ssunderson. the lat
ter OF England.
Mrs. Archboid had about recovered
from the collapse suffered several
days ago.
Archbold's brave fight for life dur.
Ing the two weeks after his operation
was in keeping with the traits of char.
acter that brought him success In
business-dogged tenacity, infloxibIe
will and optimism.
Hope was practically abandoned for
him nearly n week ago, but ArchboId
fought against death with the iron
VIII that his opponents in the oil bust.
ness found In years gone past had
crushed them.
sixty-eiskt Years Old.
Archbold was president OF the
standard OIL Company OF New Jersey,
and was sixty.eight years of age. He
was John ID. Rockefeller's right hand
In the great Standard OIL system-the
John ID. Archbold who was credited |
with mixing certain certificates OF
deposit" In with politics a number OF
Archboid was stricken with appen.
dicltis on November 10 and operated |
on two days later. His condition was |
Immediately realized as desperate. |
Blood TRANSMISSION was resorted TO, |
Archbold's chauffeur, Mosger, yolun.
tcering to furnish the blood. For a |
time Archbold seemed TO rally after
this operation.
Rockefeller waited.
John ID. Rockefeller, aged head OF /
the Standard OIL. remained at his
homo In Pocantico Hills waiting for
tho result OF his executives fight.
Archboid was one OF the least
known and most picturesque OF Wall
From tho days when he went out as
ehoro boy to the neighbors In the vii. |
lhge or Salem, Ohio, until the days |
when he sailed TO work down the Hud.
son on hts own yacht, Archbold kept /
his ambitions strictly To himself.
Johnny Archbold's pay AS a chore /
boy In Salem ranged from $50 Ia 50
q week over a period OF five years:
TO help support his mother.
Saved 800 NJ sixteen.
lie had saved 800 In cash by his
sixteenth birthday. lie was Interested
In the oil industry. OF which prac.
ticslly nothing then was known. and
at sixteen took his 800 and tramped
on to Titusville. Pa. In the midst OF
the newly discovered oil fields.
After Archbold was established In a
modest. New York office as an oil
agent he heard John ID. Rockefeller
was coming to town, and arranged a
dinnenr among the oil men just To get
IN personal touch with Rockefeller
himself. Perhaps the best description
OF how II was done In contained In the
words OF John ID. Rockefeller himself.
AT that time i was travelling about
where things were happening. One
day when got to Hotel fun OF oil
men where I had been invited I saw
this name written on the ledger.
His Battle Cry.
"John ID. Archboid. 81 a bbl
His battle cry OF 81 a barrel was
all the more striking because crude
oil was then selling for much less
and his campaign for a higher price
much too good to be true. But even
II Archbold did have to admit In the
end that crude oil wasn't worth 81 a
barrel, his enthusiasm, his energy and .
his splendid power over men have
Archbold's penchant for sensational
by-plays OF this sort helped In his
rapid rise,
Perhaps the most that Archbold
ever came into public eye was as the
author OF the MY Dear Senator" let
ters. which consisted of correspond
ence stolen from the files OF the STAN
~ with the idea of showing that
Archbold INDUCED In Irregularities In
2 aiming advantages for the Standard
Oil Company and sought TO circum-
vent the spirit of certain laws to the
same purpose.
Horn In Is4s.
Archbold was born July 26, lS4S. He
married a daughter of 3. NJ. Mills. OF /
Pa, in 1870. She. with a
son and two daughters, survives him.
When sixteen-year- Archbold
md his 500 reached Titusville he got
. job as an office boy and clerk for I
w. ii. Abbott. an oil dealer. He
,ound time to tramp through oozing '
ields. wading In sioughs up to his !
highs to get a hrst-hand knowledge q
)f the oil business. The result was
hat he was a member of the firm
md New York representative at
In 1875. John ID. Rockefeller well
lomed him TO the councils of the
sea do I'd Nan In q
hat year he was elected director,
md remained as such until 1911, when q
le was elected president OF the STAN a
lard OIL Company of New Jersey. $
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