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Show MILLIONAIRE WILLIAM ROCKEFELLER IS DEAD I SIX DOCTORS FAIL TO SAVE OIL MAGNATE ' Brother of John D. Was One Of America's Richest Citizens VICTIM OF PNEUMONIA I i Fortune May Run As High As $250,000,000, De clare Friends TARPTTOWX. N Y . June 24. (By the Associated Press) William Roc kefeller, oil magnate and brother of John I Rockefeller. died here to-day to-day from pneumonia, shortly before 7 o'clock. Mr Rockefeller had been 111 at his! home. Rockwood Hall, In North Tarr-i town since Sunday, but word of hlsl condition was not made public. Five doctors, under the charge of j Mr. Rockefeller's personal physician! W. .1 Robertson, were In attendance when the end came Practically the I entire Rockefeller family was assem-J bled at the deathbed. BUILDS m Rl M, PALACE Mr Rockefeller, who contracted a heavy cold during the rains of the last week end, had Just completed' luiUUng a J2".'.000 mausoleum In the Slc-p Hollo-tfT'eeinetcrv The , nun linoleum lino-leum was constructed according to his own plans and under his personal direction. di-rection. Mr. Rockefeller, who was 81 years old. had not recently been active In business, although he was active head of the Standard Oil company of New ork from Its establishment In 1865 until 1911. Although somewhat overshadowed over-shadowed by his elder brother, John D. Rockefeller. William was one Of the richest men In America. CANCER il THROAT a Almost the only time when hie ac-! ac-! tivltles claimed much newspaper space was In 1912 and 1913, when the congressional con-gressional committee Investigating the "money truat" oombed the country for him as a witness He was finally located lo-cated near Brunswick. Gil, but when an effort was made to question him In tils c.ilt.igi there he was seized with such spasms of coughing that the committee com-mittee was warned by his physician Ithat it might cause his death if tho examination was continued. It was ad-(mltted ad-(mltted that he was suffering from cancer can-cer of the throat Although he re tained many of his directorships. Mr i kefeller of late years shifted much of his business responsibilities to the I shoulders of his son. Percy. BR1 KM H M N None of his Wall street associates have ventured an estimate of hi fortune, for-tune, but it was generally believed lihat he had between SltiOOOO.oOO and S.T.O nou u'0 concentrated in ir...u- 'standard Oil companies, Anaconda ! Copper. Consolidated Gas. Brooklyn i nlon Gas. St. Paul and National City bank A friend recently stated that Mr j Rockefeller's death, when it came, Should have no appreciable effect on 'the stock market, as none of his hold-Incs hold-Incs would be tossed on the open mar-j mar-j ket |
