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MR MANTIS VAN SWERiNGEH Pros* Association —-By Telegraph—Copyright r fi NEW YORK, December, 12. A message: from • Cleveland: 'states that Mr Mantis Van Sweringen, who, with his brother Oris, rose from .obscurity and poverty to become one o£ the greatest railway , owners in America, died to-day , after an illness extending over six ; months caused byi “ general exhaustion, brought on by mental and emotional strain.” Recently their railway holdings, which included control of 21,000 miles of the system, were thrown into bankruptcy when the J. P. Morgan Company collected a loan of 48,000,000 dollars. _ The brothers succeeded in recapturing the holdings, but the strain was too great for- thq elder one. MRS E. A. JORDAN [Pee . United Press Association.] j TAURANGA. December ■ 14. The death occurred yesterday afternoon of Mrs Eleanor Ann Jordan, tha widow of the late Canon Charles Jordan, in her. one-hundredth year. Sha came to Tauranga with • her husband (the first vicar ,of Tauranga) in 1872. the latter dying in 1912. She enjoyed good health always till .Monday last.
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Evening Star, Issue 22212, 14 December 1935, Page 14
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172OBITUARY Evening Star, Issue 22212, 14 December 1935, Page 14
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