See also:

• PHILIP
• PHILIP (Gr.'FiXtrsro , fond of horses, from dn)^eiv, to love, and limos, horse; Lat. Philip pus, whence e.g. M. H. Ger. Philippes, Dutch Filips, and, with dropping of the final s, It. Filippo, Fr. Philippe, Ger. Philipp, Sp. Felipe)
• PHILIP, JOHN (1775-1851)
• PHILIP, KING (c. 1639-1676)
• PHILIP, LANOGRAVE OF HESSE (1504-1567)

PHILIP DANFORTH See also:

• PHILIP DANFORTH ARMOUR (1832-1901)

ARMOUR (1832-1901)  , See also:

• AMERICAN

American See also:

• MERCHANT (O. Fr. marcheant, modern marchand; from Lat. mercari, to trade, merx, goods, merchandise)

merchant and philanthropist, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born in See also:

• STOCKBRIDGE

Stockbridge, New See also:

• YORK
• YORK (HOUSE OF)
• YORK, EDMUND OF LANGLEY, DUKE OF (1341-1402)
• YORK, EDWARD
• YORK, FREDERICK AUGUSTUS, DUKE OF (1763-1827)
• YORK, RICHARD, DUKE

York, on the 16th of May 1832 . He was educated at Cazenovia See also:

• ACADEMY, GREEK
• ACADEMY, ROYAL

Academy, Cazenovia, N.Y., worked for several years on his See also:

• FATHER

father's See also:

• FARM

farm, and in 1852 with a small party went overland to See also:

• CALIFORNIA
• CALIFORNIA, LOWER (Baja California)
• CALIFORNIA, UNIVERSITY OF

California, a large See also:

• PART

part of the See also:

• JOURNEY (through O. Fr. jornee or journee, mod. Fr. journee, from med. Lat. diurnata, Lat. diurnus, of or belonging to dies, day)

journey being made on See also:

• FOOT

foot . Here during the next four years he laid the See also:

• FOUNDATIONS

foundations of his See also:

• FORTUNE, ROBERT (1813-188o)

fortune . In 1856 he became associated with his friend, See also:

• FREDERICK
• FREDERICK (Mod. Ger. Friedrich; Ital. Federigo; Fr. Frederic and Federic; M.H.G. Friderich; O.H.G. Fridurih, " king or lord of peace," from O.H.G. fridu, A.S. frith, " peace," and rfh " rich," " a ruler," for derivation of which see HENRY)

Frederick S . See also:

• MILES, NELSON APPLETON (1839— )

Miles, in a wholesale grocery and See also:

• COMMISSION (from Lat. commissio, committere)

commission business at See also:

• MILWAUKEE

Milwaukee, In 1863 he became the See also:

• HEAD (in 0. Eng. heafad; the word is common to Teutonic languages; cf. Dutch hoofd, Ger. Haupt, generally taken to be in origin connected with Lat. caput, Gr. KerbOvi7)
• HEAD, SIR EDMUND WALKER, BART
• HEAD, SIR FRANCIS BOND, BART

head of the See also:

• FIRM

firm of See also:

• ARMOUR, PHILIP DANFORTH (1832-1901)

Armour, Plankington & Co., pork packers, whose headquarters were at Milwaukee . He also obtained a large See also:

• INTEREST

interest in the firm H . O . Armour & Co., which was founded by his See also:

• BROTHER

brother, Herman See also:

• OSSIAN

Ossian Armour (1837-1901), and which, starting as a See also:

• GRAIN (derived through the French from Lat. granum, seed, from an Aryan root meaning " to wear down," which also appears in the common Teutonic word " corn ")

grain commission business, in 1868 established also a large pork-packing plant . Of this firm, the name of which was changed to Armour & Co. in 187o, he became the head in 1875, and thereafter the business made such rapid progress that in 1901 as many as 11,000 hands were employed . Besides contributing to many charitable enterprises, Armour founded the Armour See also:

• INSTITUTE (from Lat. instituere, to establish or set up)

Institute of Technology at See also:

• CHICAGO
• CHICAGO, UNIVERSITY OF

Chicago in 1892 and the Armour Flats in Chicago, built for the purpose of supplying at a See also:

• LOW, SETH (1850- )
• LOW, WILL HICOK (1853- )

low rental See also:

• GOOD, JOHN MASON (1764-1827)

good homes for working men and their families . He also contributed liberally to the Armour See also:

• MISSION

Mission in Chicago, which was founded in 1881 by his brother, See also:

• JOSEPH
• JOSEPH, COMTE DE (1785-1870)
• JOSEPH, FATHER (FRANCOIS LECLERC DU TREMBLAY) (1577-1638)

Joseph Armour . At the See also:

• TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
• TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
• TIME, STANDARD

time of his See also:

• DEATH

death, on the 6th of See also:

• JANUARY

January 1901, See also:

• PHILIP
• PHILIP (Gr.'FiXtrsro , fond of horses, from dn)^eiv, to love, and limos, horse; Lat. Philip pus, whence e.g. M. H. Ger. Philippes, Dutch Filips, and, with dropping of the final s, It. Filippo, Fr. Philippe, Ger. Philipp, Sp. Felipe)
• PHILIP, JOHN (1775-1851)
• PHILIP, KING (c. 1639-1676)
• PHILIP, LANOGRAVE OF HESSE (1504-1567)

Philip D .

Armour's private fortune was supposed to exceed $50,000,000 .