Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 74, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 May 1899 — ROSWELL P. FLOWER DEAD. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

ROSWELL P. FLOWER DEAD.

Great Politician and Financier Passes Away Suddenly. Roswell P. Flower, millionaire and former Governor of New York, died Friday night at the Long Island Country Club, Eas tp o tt, L. I.

Heart failure, superinduced by indigestion, was the cause of death, which came suddenly. There were present his wife, his daughter, his physician and the nurses. Mr. Flower had been a sufferer from gastritis

for a long time, with every dow and then an acute attack. For a month or two past he had been a regular visitor at the Eastport Country Club in the hope that he would find some relief in the outing. Mr. Flower had become the foremost figure in the speculative financial world. He was born Aug. 7, 1835, at Theresa, Jefferson County, N. Y. His parents were poor and his father, a poor woolcarder, died when Roswell was 8 years old. The son at 16 graduated from high school and began teaching. Then he became clerk for his brother-in-law and later went to Watertown, where he became deputy postmaster and clerk in a store and managed to save SI,OOO. Then he bought his employers’ store and got married. His brother-in-law, Henry Keep, a rich New York man, got sick and sent for Mr. Flower to come and take care of him. Mr. Keep died and Flower took up the management of the estate. Mr. Flower was once a seeker for the Democratic presidential nomination; was twice member of Congress, twice Governor of New York and for nearly two years a leader of New York financiers.

R. P. FLOWER.