OBITUARY
MR. O. VAN SWERINGEN NEW YORK, Nov. 2.3. The death has occurred of Mr. Oris van Sweringen, brother of the late Mr. Mantis van Sweringen, from a heart attack in a private railway car. In December last Mr. Mantis van Sweringen, who, with his brother Oris, rose from obscure poverty to become one of the greatest railway owners in America, died after six months’ illness caused "by general exhaustion brought on by mental and emotional strain." Their railway ownings, which included control of 21,000 miles of system, were some time earlier thrown into bankruptcy when the J. P. Morgan Company collected a Joan of 48,000,000 dollars. The brothers succeeded in recapturing their holdings, but the strain, it was said, was too great for the elder man.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 280, 26 November 1936, Page 7
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