New-York tribune., 1922-01-26
A. B. Hepburn
Dies of Injury
Caused by Bus
Noted Financier, Formerly
Comptroller of Currency.
Succumbs to Injuries Re-
ccived on Fifth Avenue
Funeral To Be Tomorrow
Many Distinguished Citizens
I" Pay Tribute to Man
Notable for His Service

"A. Rarton Henburn. lawyer former
Comptroller Of the Currency, and chair
man Of tne board Of he :
nanS' died at his home at $50 Park
avenue yesterday morniLg o.n .-
jur'es he suffered last Friday when
struck By Fifth Avenue bus on Fifth
avenue at Twenty-third Street. He
YRS seven'yfve years old
ihe accident was not az first con-
s'oered serious. Mr.. Hepburn appeared
10 be recovering from the double frac-
,ure "a, to the right leg and shock until
auesday morning, when his physician
TX. n'exander Lambert. announced his
condition had changed suddenly for the
worse. Later in the day he lost con-
sclousness. and Dr. Lambert announced
shor''y aft"r midnight, Tuesday that
me bankers denth was only matter
OF few hours. The end came st 4:1O
o'rl"ck in tht morning.
Az the bedside at the time we're his
wife, his son, Charles Fisher Hepburn
OF Cleve'and; his daughter. Miss Cor
nelia Hepburn. and his son-n-law and
daughter, Lieutenant Commander and
MRS. Robert R. NJ Emmett, Of Wash
ington, d. c.
Funeral services will be held to-mor-
row afternoon at a o'clock in St. James
Church, Seventy-frst Street and Madi-
son Avenue: The Rev. Frank W.
Crowder will oficate
lnterment will be at Canton, N. Y,
ten miles from Cotton, the birthplace
Of Mr. Hepburn. The body will be
taken there tomorrow and another
service will be held in Canton on
Saturday at noon
Distinguished Men to Attend
Many distinguished citizens, includ
ing professional men, bankers and sci
entists, visited the Hepburn home yes
terday to offer condolences to the be-
reaved family.
Delegations from the New England
Society, the Union League Club and
the Chamber of Comm cree Of the State
OF New York were appointed yesterday
TO represent the organizations at the
funeral
The New England Society delegat on
consists of Elihu Root, Austin B.
Fletcher. DR.. Edward L. Partridge,
Darwin p. Kingsley, Clarence W..
Bowen, George W. Hodges. Irving
Bachelor Howard c. Smith, Walter
Jennings, John P. Tilden and Harry A..
Cushing.
The Union League Club will be rep
resented by Chellis A. Austin, George
F. Baker, J. Edwards Barbour, Cor
nehus n. Bliss jr., Henry H. Bridgman.
Charles F. Brooker. Henry ]. Cochran,
Charles A. Coffin, George B. Cortclyou'
Harry A. Gushing, Otis Il. Cutler, Henry
P. Dawson, Chauncey NJ Depew, Sam
uel W. Fairchild, Walter E. Frew,
James M. Clifford. William D. Guthrie,
Edward w. Hatch Henry w. Hayden,
Charles D. Hilles, Francis L. Hine.
George w. Hodges, Horace l.. Hotch-
kiss, Charles f. Hughes, Alexander C.
humphreys, Darwin P. Kingsley.
Charles 1.nnier, Chester s. Lord, Gates
w. McGarrah, Chester B. Mclaughlin,
Andrew W. Mellon, William A. Nash,
William II. Perkins, Ruel W. Poor. vii,
liam II. Porter, Seward Prosser, Will
liam II. Remick, John d. Rockefeller,
Elihu Root, James r. Sheffield, David
B. Simpson, Bertrand H. Smell, Gilbert
6. Thorne, George B. Torrey, Guy E.
Trip, John J. Watson jr., Theodore F.
Whitmarsh, Albert II. Wiggin, Clark
Williams, William NJ Wood and Viii
liam II. Woodwin.
The Chamber of Commerce of the
State Of New York will be represented
by Irving 7. Bush, J. Pierpont Morgan,
George r. Baker Eugenius II. Outer
bridge, Alfred L. Msrling, JOHN |. Wa
tcrbury, Frank A. Vanderlip and
Charles T. Gwynne.
O"NSI'' VI AAa0 O%AcCT
Alonzo Barton Hepbu' n, son of Zina
I. and Beulah (Gray' Hepburn, was
born at Cotton, N. Y, on July "a, 1846,
nary at Fulton the St. Lawrence
Academy at Potsdam N. Y. and at
| Middlebury College, in Vermont, from
which last he was graduated in 1871.
Before the latter date he served for
some time as professor of mathematics
in the st. Lawrence Academy and as
principal of the Ogdenburg Educa-
tional Institute. In the fall of 1871
he was admitted to the bar, and for
several years practiccd law at Cotton
From 1876 to 1880 he was q member
Of the Assembly.
His noteworthy career as fnancier
began in 1880, with his appointment as
superintendent of the Banking Depart
ment OF the State of New York, an
office which he filled with marked
ability for three years. This led to
his selection by the Federal govern
nent as United States bank examiner
in New York City, and from that place
be was called to Washington in 1892
as Comptroller of the Currency. At
the end of the Harrison Administers
/ ton. in 1892, he returned to New York
and was chosen president of the Third
National Bank. Four years later he
became e-president Of the National
City Bank In 1899 he was chosen
president of the Chase National Bank,
from which office he retired twelve
years ago, later to become chairman of
the board of directors of the same
institution.
But at no time for many years were
his activities confined to single con-
Germ. He was director of the Chase
National Bank, the Columbia Trust
Company, the New York Life Insurance
Company. the American Agricultural
Chemical Company, the American Car
and Foundry Company. the American