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Show RAILROADKING DEAD EDWARD H. HARRIMAN LOSES IN LONG AND HEROIC FIGHT AGAINST DISEASE. Greatest Organizer of Railroads the World Has Ever Known Suffers Relapse, the Members of the Family Being at Bedside When End Came. Arden, N. Y. Edward H. Harrlman Is dead. Tho end came at 3:30 Thursday Thurs-day afternoon, when, secluded in his magnificent homo on Tower Hill, tho greatest organizer of railroads tho world has ever known succumbed to an intestinal disorder after n long light against tho disease. Mr. Harrlman died peacefully and to tho end his brilliant mind retained Ub Integrity. After a relapso on Sunday ho sank slowly nnd soon after noon Thursday thero camo a second relapso which marked tho approach of tho end. Ills wife, two daughtors and two sons, who havo been constantly with him woro at his bedside, as wero Mrs. Simons, a Bister, Orlando Harrlman, Har-rlman, a brother, and Dr. W. G. Lylo of Now York. Edward II. Harrlman was bpm in Hempstead, L. I., Fobruary 25, 1848, tho third son of Rov. Orlando Harrlman, Harrl-man, Jr., rector of St. George's Episcopal Epis-copal church at Hempstead. Tho EDWARD H. HARRIMAN. youth who was to becomo a multi-mil-llonnlro know no luxuries, and worked hard for tho little education ho ro-colved. ro-colved. At 1G ho found employment as an errand boy in a broker's offlco In Wall street. Ho developed Into an astuto lad, always looking for a chance to bettor hlmsef, and in 1870, before ho was 23 years old, ho had bought a soat on tho Now York stock exchnngo nnd paid for It with $20,000 ho mado in speculation. Ho learned his elementary lessons 1nnaitce-ljhe-BooI-ol.Jlm.JElfiku Jay Gould and Commodore Vandorbllt, and emerged a broker on his own account ac-count devoid of sentiment in business. Mr. Harrlman mnrrled Miss Mary Avorhlll of Rochester, N. Y. Fivo children, wero born, threo girls and two boys'. Tho eldest daughter Is tho wifo of Robert L. Gerry, son of Commodore Elbrldge T.'Gerry. Tho second daughter daugh-ter Is Mary and tho third Carol. Tho eldeBt son. Walter Avorill, Is Just out of collogo and is learning tho railroad business. Tho youngest, Roland, is 14 years old and still In school. |
