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Show SUDDEN DEATH 1 (IFUJfflS One of the Most Prominent Figures-in Figures-in the Business World Called to the Great Beyond. ft ! Noted Financier Who Started Life a . a Newsboy and Driver of a Grocer's Cart, Was Rated as One of the Richest Men In ' '"J the Nation. f Now York. Honry II. Rogers, vice- JJ president or tho Standard Oil com- ?' pany, moving spirit In tho organlza- 3. tlon of tho Amalgamated Copper company, com-pany, builder of railroads and phllan- throplst, died at his homo here Wed- ' nesdny, May 19, from apoplexy. ; Death camo a little moro than nn hour after Mr. Rogers had risen for tho day, mentioning to his wife that ho was reeling 111. Mr. Rogors was. C9 years old, Mrs. Rogers, throo mar- rled daughters, a son, II. H. Rogers ' Jr., and Dr. W. J. Pulley, n physician'. ' were at the bedside when tho end t J camo. ' 3 Mr. Rogers had hcon In poor health 1 slnco ho suffered an apoplectic stioko-ln stioko-ln 1907, and was almost constantly IiIf 1 H. H. ROGERS. "il u under a physician's care. Ills death,. jl however, was a great shock to his ., family and business nssocIatCB, as on .il Tuesday and Tuesday evening ho was, cheerful nnd apparently normal. Ho' ' even went down to business Tuesday' I morning, whero he lunched ns usual I In tho Standard Oil bulldlns. Henry H. Itogers wns n money :m mnker nnd ono of tho mo3t successful ,H men of the Standard Oil group. Ho began llfo as a poor boy nt Fair Hav- I en, Mnss., where ho.was born. Ho re- I tallied his legal ro3lilonco there until I his death. Ho Is variously roportod I ns having commenced llfo as a news- I boy and as. a driver of a grocery cart. I Just how much money Mr. Itogers I leaves Is not known. Ills fortune Is I variously ost'mntcd at from $50,000,- 000 to $75,000,000, which will mnko his son, H. H. Roiorn, Jr., ono or tho, I richest men In tho country. Tho widow Mr. rtogors lenves Is his I . second wife, his first wiro having died fourteen years ago, and ho Is sur- I vived In addition by four children. Mr. Rogers was for many years ono, I or tho moat protnnont llnnnclors of tho, country. Ho took n Jcading part In all of tho enterprises undertaken by I tho Stnndard Oil group of capitalists,, was vice-president of tho Standnrd Ollf company nnd wns tho nctlvo spirit In I tho organization of tho Amalgamated I Copper compnny, of which ho wnit prcsldont up to tho time of his denth, I Ho was nlso Interested In a number of railroads, serving ns a member of H tho board of dlfptors of tho Atchl- son, Topokn & Santn Fo, tho Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul and tho Union Pacific. , |