The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-12-05
ARCHBOLD is DEAD


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Hudson on his own yacht, Archbold
kept his ambitions strictly to himself
Johnny Archbold's pay as chore
boy in Salem ranged from $3.50 to 50
a week over a period of five years.
Out of that small weekly sum he had
helped to support his mother. He
had saved 500 in cash by his sixteenth
birthday.
trv. of which practically nothing then
was known. and at 6 took his 800
and tramped off to Titusville, Pa. in
the midst of the newly discovered oil
fields
With Rockefeller Since 1875.
In 1864 he went to the oil fields and
became a refiner and buyer at Titus
Vile. He became the agent of a new
company, the Acme company which
proved to be an offshoot of the Rookie
Teller interests. and from that time,
in 1875, until his death he was an as
sociate of the Rockefellers.
Archbold was almost as closely
identified with the history of the
Standard Oil as John D. Rockefeller
himself. OF the first nine trustees
of the trust" formed in 1882 he alone
remained in this capacity until its dis
solution in 1911 at the order of the
United States supreme court. and it
was he who was named to engineer
the dissolution, after which he became
president and director of the Standard
Oil company of New jersey. He was
the most active and aggressive fighter
in the oil combine, and invariably rep
resented the Standard Oil on the wit
ness stand in the numerous hearings
in connection. with the governments
suit to dissolve it.
In Unpleasant LimeIight.
This publicity was still further
heightened by the publication of a
score or more of letters from Mr..
ArchboId to Joseph B. Foraker, then
senator from Ohio. Representative
Joseph c. Sibley of Pennsylvania and
other statesmen showing that large
sums of money had been distributed
for the alleged purpose of influencing
favorable legislation at Washington.
Mr.. Archbold considered them as at
torney fees. The publication of these
letters exposed Mr.. Archbold to attack
from every quarter.
1t has been estimated that Mr.. Arch
bold's fortune. made almost entirely
in oil and its by-products, was nearly
$100,000,O00.
Mr. Archbold was one of the best
informed of men in the details of the
oil business in all its branches, and he
held, according to his own statement
that all the practices of the Standard
Oil company were honorable, and, he
believed, in conformity to law.
Made Liberal Gifts.
81 stand unquestionably.' he said in
defending the trust idea. for CO.
operative evolution. L believe that the
large corporations of the present day
represent more nearly this co-opera-
ton than any other system yet under
taken"
Altho Mr. Archbold was not particu-
larly conspicuous as a benefactor, he
made many large gifts, including q
sum of S400. 600 to Syracuse University
in one>lump, besides annual donations
of smaller amounts. He was also a
church member and a liberal contrib
utor to religious work. He was mar
ried in 1870 to Miss Annie Mills, of
Titusville, Pa, and maintained a beau
tiful estate at Cedar Cliff, Tarrytown-
on-Hudson, and home at Southamp-
ton, Long Island.
To Rest in Sleepy Hollow.
Archbold's body will rest in the
family mausoleum at the north end
, of Sleepy Hollow cemetery where the
body of Mrs. John D. Rockefeller was
placed before being taken to Cleve-
land.
With Archbold at the end were Mrs.
Archbold and their children, John F.
Archbold, Mrs. Michael NJ Van Beuren
and Mrs. Armar Saunderson, the latter
of England Mrs. Archbold had about
recovered from the collapse suffered
several daYS ago