Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 103, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 September 1909 — Harriman, Railroad Organizer and Financier, Dead. [ARTICLE]

Harriman, Railroad Organizer and Financier, Dead.

Edward H. Harriman, the greatest organizer of railroads the world has ever known, met the only lasting defeat of his active life Thursday at the hands of death. Secluded in his magnificent home on Tower Hill, near Albany, N. Y., surrounded by memI’ 1 ' bers of his family, physicians and nurses, he succumbed to an intestinal disorder, after a fight against disease which will rank for sheer grit with his remarkable struggles in the financial world. * The exact time of his death is known-only in the limited circle of relatives and associates who had so effectively shielded Mr. Harriman from all outside annoyances during his last illness. The time was given to the world at 3:35 p. m., but Mrs. Mary Simonds, sister of the dead man, said that the end had come at 1:30, -more than two hours previous. Whether this apparent discrepancy has any bearing on the current belief that every effort was made to lessen the influence of the financier’s death on the New York stock market is problematical. But it is significant that the time of his death as officially announced, was just thirty-fjve minutes after trading had ceased on the exchange in New York. Mr. Harriman died peacefully and to the end his brilliant mind retained its integrity. After a relapse on Sunday he 6gnk slowly and soon after the noon hour Thursday there came a relapse which marked the approach of the end.