Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 September 1901 — Aged Philanthropist Dead. [ARTICLE]

Aged Philanthropist Dead.

John D. Lankenau, the well known philanthropist and .member of the Drexel family, who was stricken with paralysis last Wednesday, died Friday afternoon at his residence in Philadelphia. Mr. Lankenau was 84 years of age, Early in the summer he was stricken with paralysis at his summer home at Cape May, N. J., but recovered sufficiently to return at the end of July.-