OBITUARY.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19718, 18 August 1927, Page 9

OBITUARY.

MR. J. OGDEN ARMOUR. (Received August 17, 5.5 p.m.) A. and N.Z. LONDON. Aug. 17. The death occurred in London yesterday of Mr. J. Ogden Armour, of the meatpacking firm of Armour and Company, of America, aged 64. Mr. Armour's wife, his son-in-law, Mr. John Mitchell, his daughter, Mrs. Mitchell, and the well-known physician, Lord Dawson of Penn, were at his bedside when ho died. His death was not expected, because yesterday he was apparently much improved in health. The Daily Mail savs his daughter, Lolita, heard of her father's serious state of health some days ago when she was in California, and she immediately came to London, after travelling 7000 miles in 12 days. Mrs. Mitchell, the paper says, who is an only child, is reported to be the heiress to £12,000,000. At her birth she weighed only three pounds, and had to be reared in an incubator until an operation was performed by a Viennese surgeon, and after that she had normal good health. The surgeon was paid £IO,OOO for the operation. Mr. Jonathan Ogden Armour was born in Milwaukee in 1863, and was a son of the late Philip Danforth Armour. Ho was for a short time at Yale University, but at his father's request he did not complete his course, but joined his father's great firm of meat-packers in order to relieve him of some of his business cares. Ho was connected with many other concerns in America, and was a director of railway companies, banks, and similar institutions.