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Show I A i k - Ubi U UK ' 13 DHL TCM Janes Henry Smith, Once iiclic!kt Cacliclc? in ti? ycrjd," Succunfcs While Sojourning in Japan. - NEW YORKk March 27- A dispatch received today from Tokio nnounces the death of James Henry Smith, one of the wealthiest capitalists of this city. At the time of hi: death Smith was on a wedding -tour around the world. His bride is the divorced wife of William Ehinelander Stewart. They were married mar-ried in this city last September. Smith's death occurred yesterday at Kioto, Japan. In the paty with "Mr. and Mrs. Smth were the Duke and Duchess of Manchester. ' . A cable .received at Smith's office today to-day stated that the party which accompanied accom-panied Smith will leave Yokohama for San Francisco April 10, bringing his body. They will be met at San Francisco Fran-cisco by Eugene Zimmerman of Cincin-' nati, father of the Duchess of Manchester. Manches-ter. It was said at Smith's office that his death was due to heart disease. A few years ago Smith inherited from his uncle, George Smith, a fortune estimated esti-mated at $50,000,000. Two years ago he bought the house at Fifty-seventh street and Fifth avenue, owned by the late William C. Whitney. The lavish entertainments given by him during his bachelorhood days were among the most notable in New York fashionable circles. cir-cles. Prior to coming into the estate of his uncle, he conducted a brokerage business and was known as "Silent' Smith. Smith and Mrs.1 Rhinelander Stewart of Baltimore were married at Inverness, Scotland, last September and shortly : after they started with several friends on a tour around the world. Early in February, together with Mr. and Mrs. Bourke Cockran and the Duke and Duchess of Manchester, they were presented pre-sented to the Amir of Afghanistan at Calcutta, where that potentate was be- J ing entertained by the Viceroy of India. James Henry Smith was a society leader and a man of great wealth. Before Be-fore his marriage be was known as the richest bachelor in the world. Bride was Divorcee. The Smith party was touring on the Drexel yacht, Margarita, which Smith had chartered. Mrs. Smith was Miss Annie Armstrong of Baltimore. In 1879 she was married to W. Rhinelander Stewart, from whom she obtained a divorce di-vorce in South Dakota in August of last year. A few days after the decree de-cree "was granted she sailed with her daughter for England and was married to Smith the following month. George Smith, the founder of the great fortune, was one of the pioneer bankers of Chicago and the Northwest. He was a native of Scotland and came to America in. 1833, locating in Chicago Chi-cago just before tho beginning of tho boom period in that city. He invested his small savings in city property. The increase in values was rapid. Mr. Smith organized a bank and eventually obtained ob-tained large holdings in many of the enterprises of the Northwest. Smith never married and at his death the bulk of his great fortune went to his nephew. |