The sun., 1916-12-06
D. ARCHBOLD,
OF OIL FAME, DEAD
Standards President and
ROckefeller's Chief Lieu
tenant Was SO.
ONCE HIS LEADERS, FOE
Started Business as q Grocery
Clerk and Became Master
Of Big Business.

iAHhfToWNs ~. L., Dec. 0.@Onn ~.
Archbold. president Of the Standard Oil
Company Of New Jersey died at 4 o'clock
this morning. At the bedside we're Mrs.
Archbold. her son. John F. Archboid
her daughter, Mrs. Michael Van Beu-
rem. and h latter's husband. Mr..
Archbold was 90 years old. lie was op-
Grated on for appendicitis November 81.
and since then had been steadily grow
Ing weaker.
Death had been regarded as certain
to como within a few days and likely to
take place at any time. His family saw
no one but their closest friends yester-
day. and last night they waited close to
his room for the nnai hour.
John d. Rockefeller said this morning
he did not wish to comment upon the
death OF his close friend and business
associate except to ray that no was
very sorry and very sad.
The funeral services will be held to.
morrow morning az 10 80 In his home
Chancellor James r. Day OF Syracus.
University will oficiate. The intcrment
will be private. The body OF Mr.. Arch
bold will be laid TO rest In the famI,,
vault ut Sleepy Hollow.
Mr.. Archbold's Career.
John Dunstin Archbold c said
There il no master mind In the Stand.
ard OIL Company"
He was on the witness stand when ne
made the assertion, a. he frequently was
In the days when Standard OIL batting
was . national occupation. and his In
Quisitors drew from his own lips in al
most the next sentence the specific ad-
mission that he was the most active in
dividual In the gigantic corporations
Affairs. the longest In the service and
the most prominent In the oil side Of
the business
From the time when John D. Rookie
Teller began to retire from active work,
which was about 1896. until the close
OF his career, all through the troublesome
days OF Investigations and suits and dis
solution DEGREES. Mr.. Archbold was the
real head OF affairs at 26 Broadway.
Mr.. Rockefeller retained the title for a
while. but Mr.. Archbold as vicc-president
actually was In charge and finally he
assumed the office of president Of the
Standard OIL Company OF New Jersey.
1t was he who engineered the tremen-
dously complicated task Of dissolution.
lie owed little to school beyond the
ability 20 read, write and do simple
arithmetic. for he was a child when he
started work as a grocery clerk In a
village store. He died head Of the great
est business organization In the world
and possessed OF one OF the largest per-
sonal fortunes in the country.
Little Luck In Career.
His career was one Of the sensational
romances OF Americas development, but
there was little II any luck In II. II was
due to no sudden turn Of fortunes wheel.
but to native shrewdness inherited from
scotch and Irish forebears to t~ireless
work. indomitable ambition, implicit de-
votion TO the Standard. 'hRgressivenese.
abundant vitality. a mind which gave
him a wonderful grasp OF great affairs
and finally to great tact.
Some one said he laughed hie way TO
the top" That was not true. but his
sense OF humor certainly eased many
rough spots for him, He knew when 10
laugh and when to fight. Like Mr..
Rockefeller he knew when silence was
golden. but as one writer remarked, he
knew more than his chief in that he real
lied the times when speech was silver
Many regarded him as Mr.. Rockefeller
superior, not in the ability to conceive
great enterprises, but in the technique OF
their execution. .
Mr.. Archbold was born In Leesburg.
Ohio. July %. 1s4s. After a brief COM
mon school education he went to work IN
a grocery in Salem. Ohio.
OF the history of oil in America he
ASs 80 ~ - 'ot't M VI IL a
saw and part of It ] was" He remem-
lered az a lad the discovery OF oil near
Titusville, Pa. in 1859. and the great
stir which followed. He saw oil mad.
ness in its most ~v!rulent form. lie san
men put on the road to millions who a
few months before had been the poverty
stricken owners Of rocky farms. He saw
the industry develop and towns spring
up within a few weeks. All this fired his
imagination.
Joins Rush TO OIL Fields.
So. In 1864 or 1865, when he was ! : or
Is. and the oil fever broke out anew at
the close OF the civil war, he Joined the
rush to the fields In Pennsylvania He
had saved a little money He quit his
clerkshlp n look 1t all with him. re-
solved TO win his share OF the riches the
earth was giving forth. Stripping that
he was. he more than held his own In
the scramble. In this hard school he
learned not only oil but also how to deal
with men. were they friends or enemies,
BY the time he was "a he was an en-
crgetic and successful oil buyer II an
active opponent Of John d. Rockefeller
and the group OF associates who later
formed the South Improvement Com
pany. The chronology of the next few
|, steps In the Archbold career is not easy
10 keep straight,
But about this time the South I'm.
provement Company was formed n II
got special rates from tho railroads
!. When this became known 1t caused grca,
Indignation In the oil fields. Mr.. Arch.
bold elected himself a leader OF the an.
, cry crowds which surged through thu
: streets Of OH City and Titusville, clam,
oring for redress.
!, How lie Met Rockefeller.
Mr.. Rockefeller's description. In hi
published reminiscences of his first meet
ing Wit Mr.. Archbold, follows:
= One day there was a gathering of tn,
men somewhere near the oil regions, ant
I when i came to the hotel. which wal
= full OF oil men, I saw this name writer
large on the register, John d. Archbold
!, I a bbl.' He WAS a young and enthu
I siastic fellow. so full Of his subject tina
. he added his slogan, - n bhl' after hi
: signature OF the register. that no on,
might misunderstood his convictions.
Q 1.-THE battle cry of 81 a barrel was al
4 the more striking because crude oil wa
selling then for much less. and this cam
paign for a higher price certainly did at
y tract atte%ntion--it was much too good L
: be true. But II Mr.. Archbold had to az
V nit In the end that crude oil was no
worth 81 O barrel. his enthusiasm. hi
o energy and his splendid power over mel
. . have lasted"
I Mr.. Rockefeller included another stor.
! about Mr.. Archbold In his Brandon