February 1, 1900 – Phillip D. Armour, Jr. is
buried in Graceland Cemetery following a funeral held in the family residence
at 3700 South Michigan Avenue. The
casket is placed in the library of the home and the public is allowed to enter
and view the deceased. The Chicago Daily Tribune reports, “Hundreds
of persons filed past the casket, among them many employés of Armour and
Co. The entire faculty and students of
Armour Institute attended the funeral in a body.” Reverend Frank W. Gunsaulus conducts the
services and a quartet from the Second Presbyterian Church sings, “Nearer, My
God to Thee.” The funeral cortegé passes
down Michigan Avenue to Fortieth Street where a special train waits to take the
funeral party to Graceland. The youngest
son of Philip Danforth Armour began his career at Armour and Company at the
bottom, working in the stockyards. At
the age of 25 he became a partner in the company his father, who was to outlive
him, started. He was 31-years-old at the time of his death.
Also on this date from an earlier blog entry . . .
February 1, 1955 -- Daniel Ryan (there is a name that sounds familiar), president of the Cook County board and William J. Mortimer, county highway superintendent, report that the first completed portion of the Congress Street "super-highway" is taking as many as 11,596 motorists a day from other highways. The 2.5 mile stretch from 1st Street in Maywood to Mannheim Road, was dubbed "the road to nowhere," but Ryan observed, "What we are finding is that motorists definitely will go out of their way to enjoy safe, continuous travel afforded on an expressway."
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