Inter-Mountain Republican | 1907-08-28 | Page 2 | Life of Nelson Morris at an End

T LIFE OF OI NELSON MORRIS AT AN END Chicago's Multi Millionaire Packer Passes Peacefully to His Final Rest LEFT BIG SUM FOR CHARITY 1 4 Fortune Variously Estimated at I 1 Forty Million to Sixty Million Dollars j I Chicago u J Aug 27 Nelson Morris dip dlf 3 r this morning at The eu cud F was nas peaceful For hours be lie bad had s len lep r Practically he was the richest of or Illinois f men 1 Mr Ir Morris hail had bo ten hen n HI III a long time He lie had ad traveled abroad In the hope o of 01 finding health He had drunk th the wa wn wa- wa of oC the thA worlds world's famous Spas hall hail L consulted the most scientific physician h had cl been nursed anti and then thon hall had come home homo to die dip For halt half a decade he lie had known of oC his Ids Impending doom First his kidneys became came affected Then his heart lost Its Us strength C All An the tho members of or his family were around the bedside when the en end 1 came The They had remained near all an night Dr c Arthur B. B Edwards the attending ph physician sl clan cian had hud given ghen at up hope midnight but be he stood iy iy the side of the packer 1 I antI did not relinquish his lia vigil Mr Morris left leCt a Cor fortune tune variously I es estimated es- es s- s 4 at between JI IO and At t the stock tock yards tOlla today some who were well wen acquainted with Mr Ur Morris 3 hazarded a gue guers s that It would ho lie as hl high h hI I as 1 I. I oOOo It Is said that his will contains con con- P great sums stuns for tor charity Not ot lon long r I 3 ago O he gave rave bounteously for the pre preservation ena lion tion of oC one of oC Shakespeare's r s 's favorite n spots at on von jI Ills widow Is to 0 bo be left thIrd one the lie wealth and tho the family home hom The or of the estate Is to be tie divided equally quail ff t I among his four tour children l except that part parth h which ha has been reserved for charlt charity charily for tor torl l' l hospitals and friends I