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...strictest of his reform rules was that the bank might loan no money unless fully covered by good collateral. The late Philip Danforth Armour† once sent word from the Chicago Stock Exchange that he wanted $100,000 at once. The young president returned word that he wanted collateral. Mr. Armour furnished it and valued President Mitchell for his stubborn consistency. Marshall Field also liked him and made him bank trustee of the Marshall Field estate...
...John J. Mitchell Jr., able son, married Lolita Armour, granddaughter of Philip Danforth Armour and daughter of J. Ogden Armour...
Died. Mrs. Malvina Belle Ogden Armour, 85, widow of Philip Danforth Armour, founder of Armour & Co., meat packers, and mother of Jonathan Ogden Armour, present head of the firm; of old age infirmities, in Chicago...
...lolanthe and The Pirates of Penzance, Winthrop Ames showed Manhattan how Gilbert & Sullivan ought to be staged. Producer Lawrence J. Anhalt, unmindful of the lesson, has made a sluggish, tasteless revival of this operetta. An unfortunate evening is partly redeemed by Craig Campbell as Richard Dauntless, by William Danforth and Herbert Waterous as two of the multitudinous Sir Murgatroyds...
...came to the American colonies in the 18th Century, used to boast: "I was born on a Sunday morning, and baptized before eight o'clock, and the devil a bit of any disease could ever light upon me." He had eight children; his son John, nine; John's son Danforth, six (including Philip D. I and Herman Ossian). Philip D. I's son was Jonathan Ogden, whose only child Lolita Ogden (Mrs. John J. Mitchell Jr.) was cured of a childhood hip deformity by famed Orthopedist Dr. Adolf Lorenz (TIME, March 22. 1926) ; and Philip D. II (died 1900), whose...