Show BEN HOLLADAYS DEATH The Veteran Mail and Express Man Gone to Rest Mr Benjamin Holladay the originator origin-ator of the Overland Pacific Express and chief of the Overland Mail Company Com-pany died at 8 oclock last evening in Portland Ogn where he was prostrated fortyeight hours before with apoplexy during which time he had not regained consciousness Mr Holladay was originally a poor boy living in Western New York but long ago emigrated to what was then known as the Far West He tried many occupations and at last won success in extending the benefits of the express system to the Pacific States which enterprise from his energetic and businesslike management enrolled his name among the millionaires and made him famous through the breadth of a continent Out of his mail contracts con-tracts grew a claim of 500000 which he presented to the government in 1867 This was at the time rejected and slumbered for a dozen years or more In 1879 the Senate cut it down to 100000 while the House left it uncalled on the calendar During two or thres subsequent sessions ses-sions Congress treated the claim in away a-way no more satisfactory to the claimant claim-ant Large investments in Pacific slope railroad securities did much to swell the amount of Mr Holladays wealth In 1870 he purcbased for a homestead 700 acres of land in Westchester county this State lying between Harrisons and White Plains Here he built a mansion on which he is said to have expended over 1000000 Mr Holladay was twice married His first wife died some years ago Of his three children by the first wife one a son survives One daughter married the Count de Pourtoles a member of an old French family and at one time an attache of the French legation at Washington Wash-ington She died suddenly in a sleeping car and the news hastened thedeath of her mother The other daughter married mar-ried the L aron de Bussiere whose father was a noted Parisian banker She too died some years since at the New York Hotel in this city It is believed be-lieved the estate left in Oregon to the widow will produce half a million dollars dol-lars N Y Herald 9th |