People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 April 1894 — DEATH OF HENRY S. IVES. [ARTICLE]

DEATH OF HENRY S. IVES.

•• Napoleon of Finance ” Expires at Asheville, N. C.—His Career. Asheville, N. C., April 19.—-Henry S. Ives, the “Napoleon of finance” o» New York, died here Tuesday night He came here about two months ago in the tertiary stage of consumption, and had been confined to his bed almost constantly since. The remains will be taken to his old home in Ohio for burial. [Henry S. Ives was fo-merly a member of the firm of Henry S. Ives & Co., which failed for i1.5,00:),UU0 in August, 1887. In September, 1889, Ives was brought for trial before Recorder Smyths for over-issuing 6,050 shares of Cincinnati,'Hamilton & Dayton stock The jurors announced themselves unable to agree. It was believed that a new trial could be ordered, but Ives effected a compromise with his creditors at about live cents on the dollar aud got out of Ludlow street jail on March 18. 1890, after a year's incarceration. He prompuy went back to Wall street, spent money freely and for a year kept the street in a state of nervousness by sending out rumors that he had secured control of this or that prominent road. But in June, 1891, he was attacked by hemorrhages, and after that got out of active business lite. He appeared to have saved plenty of money from his wreck and entertained lavishly. He married Miss Lil lian Gertrude Sears, a comic-opera singer, in New York, November 21, 1892. The old indictments against him had been dismissed and he declared himself at peace with the world. In February, 1893, his name appeared in connection with a scheme to control the Cleveland, Akron & Columbus railroad, but he failed to do anything with the plan on account of his reputation and since then the public has heard nothing of him.]