Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1922-05-08
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| 1t was only last night that an
nounce ments was made that Mr..
| Dawson, who went under the Knife
last August, would have to undergo
another operation today. The nrst
operation, performed to relieve pres
sure on the auditory nerve, which
produced headaches and insomnia,
| disclosed the tumor. It's removal
was not attempted because 1t was felt
! the patient could not stand further
loss of blood and anaesthetic.
He did not rally as we'll as had
been expected. however. and the sur
geons decided that another operation
fwas imperative. This bulletin. is
sued about 2 o'clock. told of failure:
''Mr. Henry P. Dawson died today
upon the conclusion of an operation
upon an infiltrating tumor in the
brain, which could only be partially
removed"
1t was decided TO operate in the
financier's home at Peacock Point,
| instead of at the Roosevelt Hospital
in this city. where the first operation
was performed. A chamber was f1t-
ted up for the occasion and this
morning a special corps of surgeons
and nurses began arriving in auto
mobiles.
After a conference with members
of the family it was announced that
funeral services would be held at II
A. NJ Tuesday in the chapel of st.
Johns of darlington. the Episcopal
church in Locust valley, which was
founded by the late j. r. Morgan, and
in which Mr.. Dawson had been a
vestryman many years.
Rev. DR.. Hilton will direct the ser
vices. assisted by Rev. Dr. Endicott
Peabody, head master of Groton
school, Groton, Mass, and father of
Mrs. Trubee Dawson, wife of the fl
nancier's eldest son.
Soon after it was learned that the
operation had been fatal, Mrs. Davi-
son, supported by her two sons left
the home and walked with them for
over an hour among the blossoming
orchards and Towering gardens of the
estate.
| They followed. probably without in
tent, the course taken by Mr.. Davi-
son only last night when he made the
rounds of the grounds to which he
had become so endeared. In the af-
ternoon he had gone driving with
them. had chatted during the greater
! part of the ride, and then in buoyant
spirits had announced that the sur
geons were coming for another oper-
alton.
Leader in World Finance
! A notable financier, Henry Pome-
roy Dawson will best be remembered,
| perhaps, as the man who, at President
Wilson's request directed the work of
| the American Red Cross in allied
countries for the two years the Unit
| ed States was at war with the CEN
trail powers. Taken out of the hurly-
/ burly of Wall street, one of the most
active of the Is partners in the firm
of ]. p Morgan e. Co. the man who
/ % years before had walked the streets
Of New York looking for job, di-
rccted the first drive" of the Amer
lean Red Cross for funds, raised STA
600 600, and within a few weeks had
Red Cross workers at their tasks in
Italy, Belgium and Switzerland, as
we'll as war-torn France.
! IT. P. Dawson was one Of the most
trusted licutcnants of the elder J..
Pierpont Morgan, who commissioned
him to represent the firm in numerous
| financial negotiations abroad. He
made many trips to London, Paris and
Berlin. lie made q study of the finan-
cial system of Germany in 1908 and,
three years later, in that city, presid-