Times-Picayune, New Orleans, July 31, 1896
"Obsequies of Robert Garrett.
(By Associated Press.)
Baltimore, Md., July 30 - The body of the late William Garrett will be buried in Greenmont cemetery, in this city, tomorrow afternoon, after services at Grace Episcopal church. Miss Mary Garrett, his sister, will be present at his funeral, but the other members of the family are in England."
The Evening Star (Washington, D.C.)
July 29, 1896
page 1
Baltimore, Md., July 29.—Robert Garrett, former president of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad, died at his cottage in Deer Park, Md., soon after 3 o’clock this morning. Although Mr. Garrett has been a hopeless mental invalid for many years, it was not thought that his physical infirmities were such as to cause any immediate uneasiness upon the part of his friends. About two weeks ago, however, he began to fail, and it was thought best to remove him from “Uplands,” his country home near Baltimore, to Deer Park, in the hope that the change of air and scenery would benefit him. The improvement was not as great as his physicians hoped for, and within the past week the patient suffered much from mental depression and melancholia. Monday his physical condition showed a marked change for the worse, and yesterday his condition became critical.
His devoted wife was with him when the end came, which was peaceful and apparently painless. The immediate cause of death is understood to be chronic nephritis, with which he has suffered for many years. The arrangements for the funeral are not yet complete, but it is though that it will take place in Baltimore Saturday. The news of his death was a profound surprise to the people of this city, where it was not generally known that Mr. Garrett was seriously ill.
Robert Garrett, second son of the late John W. Garrett, who was, as is well known, for many years president of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad Company, was born in Baltimore, Md., April 9, 1847.
After receiving his preliminary education in the best schools of his native city, he entered Princeton College, where he was a classmate of John K. Cowen, the present president of the Baltimore and Ohio, and was graduated in 1868. While at Princeton a warm attachment sprang up between the two young men, and this eventuated in Mr. Cowen being invited in 1872 by President Garrett, at Robert’s suggestion, to accept a position in the legal department of the Baltimore and Ohio Company.
After leaving college Robert Garrett went to Europe, where he spent considerable time in travel, returning, however, to the United States in 1871, at which time he entered the Baltimore and Ohio service as assistant to the president.
A little later he was elected president of the Valley division of the Baltimore and Ohio, extending from Harper’s Ferry, W. Va., to Lexington, Va., and during his administration, which continued until February 1875, the road was brought up to a high state of efficiency, and developed into one of the most valuable feeders of the Baltimore and Ohio system.
Retiring from the management of the Valley road in 1875 he again devoted several years to travel in various parts of the world and in recreation, and on October 8, 1879, he was elected third vice president of the B. and O. He was advanced to the position of first vice president July 13, 1881, and remained such until the death of his father, October, 1884, when the directors of the company elected him acting president, and a month later president.
His first step of importance after assuming control of the great system was to endeavor to secure control of the P., W. and B. railroad, in which he was thwarted by the Pennsylvania company when apparently upon the eve of success.
Then followed the building of a parallel line to Philadelphia in the face of legal and physical obstacles which seemed insurmountable. Soon after this he sold the Baltimore and Ohio telegraph system to the Western Union Company.
It was while these negotiations and others of like magnitude were in progress that Mr. Garrett was closeted in conference with the late William H. Vanderbilt in the latter’s mansion in New York, when the latter fell dead almost in Mr. Garrett’s arms.
This shock, together with the great nervous strain under which he had been for so long a time, completely unhinged Mr. Garrett’s mind, and it became necessary to place him in some private retreat. The country home of ex-Mayor Abram S. Hewitt of New York, at Ringwood, N. J., was selected for this purpose, and there Mr. Garrett lived for nearly a year.
He continued as president until October 12, 1887, when he resigned, since which time he has lived a quiet life; during that period traveling a great deal both in this and foreign countries.
During Mr. Garrett’s incumbency of the office of president of the B. and O. the head of the company was confronted with the solution of financial problems which proved too much for Mr. Garrett’s health, and for more than nine years he was an invalid.
Mr. Garrett was married about fifteen years ago to Miss Mary Frick, daughter of William F. Frick, a leading capitalist of Baltimore, who survives him.
The deceased was very wealthy, and besides his large holdings in the Baltimore and Ohio he owned a magnificent residence on Mount Vernon Place, Baltimore, a beautiful country seat, called “Uplands,” a few miles out of the city; an interest in the banking house of Robert Garrett & Sons, and other valuable property.
For a number of years past, especially since retiring from the presidency of the Baltimore and Ohio, Mr. Garrett devoted himself to works of charity, and was especially solicitous for the welfare of poor and sick little children whose forlorn condition was brought to the attention of Mrs. Garrett or himself. In order to make as many of these unfortunates as happy as possible, he several years ago purchased a fine estate on some of the highest hills in western Maryland, and here he and Mrs. Garrett built cottages so that children whose parents could not afford to give them an outing could be taken to the Mrs. Mary Garrett Sanitarium, as it was called and kept there as long as they or their parents desired them to stay. He also had in his employ for the institution at high salaries physicians and surgeons, who were regarded as specialists in their line, and trained nurses, so that the children entrusted to the care of those who represented him should suffer for nothing.
In addition to this Mr. Garrett has for many years provided the funds for conducting a large children’s hospital in the western part of the city of Baltimore, which has been the means of doing a vast amount of good and where hundreds of children are given medical or surgical attendance each month.
It is hardly probable that Mr. Garrett’s death will affect either of these institutions, as Mrs. Garrett takes the most active interest in both, and will doubtless see that the money to continue the good work will be provided.
"Obsequies of Robert Garrett.
(By Associated Press.)
Baltimore, Md., July 30 - The body of the late William Garrett will be buried in Greenmont cemetery, in this city, tomorrow afternoon, after services at Grace Episcopal church. Miss Mary Garrett, his sister, will be present at his funeral, but the other members of the family are in England."
The Evening Star (Washington, D.C.)
July 29, 1896
page 1
Baltimore, Md., July 29.—Robert Garrett, former president of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad, died at his cottage in Deer Park, Md., soon after 3 o’clock this morning. Although Mr. Garrett has been a hopeless mental invalid for many years, it was not thought that his physical infirmities were such as to cause any immediate uneasiness upon the part of his friends. About two weeks ago, however, he began to fail, and it was thought best to remove him from “Uplands,” his country home near Baltimore, to Deer Park, in the hope that the change of air and scenery would benefit him. The improvement was not as great as his physicians hoped for, and within the past week the patient suffered much from mental depression and melancholia. Monday his physical condition showed a marked change for the worse, and yesterday his condition became critical.
His devoted wife was with him when the end came, which was peaceful and apparently painless. The immediate cause of death is understood to be chronic nephritis, with which he has suffered for many years. The arrangements for the funeral are not yet complete, but it is though that it will take place in Baltimore Saturday. The news of his death was a profound surprise to the people of this city, where it was not generally known that Mr. Garrett was seriously ill.
Robert Garrett, second son of the late John W. Garrett, who was, as is well known, for many years president of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad Company, was born in Baltimore, Md., April 9, 1847.
After receiving his preliminary education in the best schools of his native city, he entered Princeton College, where he was a classmate of John K. Cowen, the present president of the Baltimore and Ohio, and was graduated in 1868. While at Princeton a warm attachment sprang up between the two young men, and this eventuated in Mr. Cowen being invited in 1872 by President Garrett, at Robert’s suggestion, to accept a position in the legal department of the Baltimore and Ohio Company.
After leaving college Robert Garrett went to Europe, where he spent considerable time in travel, returning, however, to the United States in 1871, at which time he entered the Baltimore and Ohio service as assistant to the president.
A little later he was elected president of the Valley division of the Baltimore and Ohio, extending from Harper’s Ferry, W. Va., to Lexington, Va., and during his administration, which continued until February 1875, the road was brought up to a high state of efficiency, and developed into one of the most valuable feeders of the Baltimore and Ohio system.
Retiring from the management of the Valley road in 1875 he again devoted several years to travel in various parts of the world and in recreation, and on October 8, 1879, he was elected third vice president of the B. and O. He was advanced to the position of first vice president July 13, 1881, and remained such until the death of his father, October, 1884, when the directors of the company elected him acting president, and a month later president.
His first step of importance after assuming control of the great system was to endeavor to secure control of the P., W. and B. railroad, in which he was thwarted by the Pennsylvania company when apparently upon the eve of success.
Then followed the building of a parallel line to Philadelphia in the face of legal and physical obstacles which seemed insurmountable. Soon after this he sold the Baltimore and Ohio telegraph system to the Western Union Company.
It was while these negotiations and others of like magnitude were in progress that Mr. Garrett was closeted in conference with the late William H. Vanderbilt in the latter’s mansion in New York, when the latter fell dead almost in Mr. Garrett’s arms.
This shock, together with the great nervous strain under which he had been for so long a time, completely unhinged Mr. Garrett’s mind, and it became necessary to place him in some private retreat. The country home of ex-Mayor Abram S. Hewitt of New York, at Ringwood, N. J., was selected for this purpose, and there Mr. Garrett lived for nearly a year.
He continued as president until October 12, 1887, when he resigned, since which time he has lived a quiet life; during that period traveling a great deal both in this and foreign countries.
During Mr. Garrett’s incumbency of the office of president of the B. and O. the head of the company was confronted with the solution of financial problems which proved too much for Mr. Garrett’s health, and for more than nine years he was an invalid.
Mr. Garrett was married about fifteen years ago to Miss Mary Frick, daughter of William F. Frick, a leading capitalist of Baltimore, who survives him.
The deceased was very wealthy, and besides his large holdings in the Baltimore and Ohio he owned a magnificent residence on Mount Vernon Place, Baltimore, a beautiful country seat, called “Uplands,” a few miles out of the city; an interest in the banking house of Robert Garrett & Sons, and other valuable property.
For a number of years past, especially since retiring from the presidency of the Baltimore and Ohio, Mr. Garrett devoted himself to works of charity, and was especially solicitous for the welfare of poor and sick little children whose forlorn condition was brought to the attention of Mrs. Garrett or himself. In order to make as many of these unfortunates as happy as possible, he several years ago purchased a fine estate on some of the highest hills in western Maryland, and here he and Mrs. Garrett built cottages so that children whose parents could not afford to give them an outing could be taken to the Mrs. Mary Garrett Sanitarium, as it was called and kept there as long as they or their parents desired them to stay. He also had in his employ for the institution at high salaries physicians and surgeons, who were regarded as specialists in their line, and trained nurses, so that the children entrusted to the care of those who represented him should suffer for nothing.
In addition to this Mr. Garrett has for many years provided the funds for conducting a large children’s hospital in the western part of the city of Baltimore, which has been the means of doing a vast amount of good and where hundreds of children are given medical or surgical attendance each month.
It is hardly probable that Mr. Garrett’s death will affect either of these institutions, as Mrs. Garrett takes the most active interest in both, and will doubtless see that the money to continue the good work will be provided.
Times-Picayune, New Orleans, July 31, 1896
"Obsequies of Robert Garrett.
(By Associated Press.)
Baltimore, Md., July 30 - The body of the late William Garrett will be buried in Greenmont cemetery, in this city, tomorrow afternoon, after services at Grace Episcopal church. Miss Mary Garrett, his sister, will be present at his funeral, but the other members of the family are in England."
The Evening Star (Washington, D.C.)
July 29, 1896
page 1
Baltimore, Md., July 29.—Robert Garrett, former president of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad, died at his cottage in Deer Park, Md., soon after 3 o’clock this morning. Although Mr. Garrett has been a hopeless mental invalid for many years, it was not thought that his physical infirmities were such as to cause any immediate uneasiness upon the part of his friends. About two weeks ago, however, he began to fail, and it was thought best to remove him from “Uplands,” his country home near Baltimore, to Deer Park, in the hope that the change of air and scenery would benefit him. The improvement was not as great as his physicians hoped for, and within the past week the patient suffered much from mental depression and melancholia. Monday his physical condition showed a marked change for the worse, and yesterday his condition became critical.
His devoted wife was with him when the end came, which was peaceful and apparently painless. The immediate cause of death is understood to be chronic nephritis, with which he has suffered for many years. The arrangements for the funeral are not yet complete, but it is though that it will take place in Baltimore Saturday. The news of his death was a profound surprise to the people of this city, where it was not generally known that Mr. Garrett was seriously ill.
Robert Garrett, second son of the late John W. Garrett, who was, as is well known, for many years president of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad Company, was born in Baltimore, Md., April 9, 1847.
After receiving his preliminary education in the best schools of his native city, he entered Princeton College, where he was a classmate of John K. Cowen, the present president of the Baltimore and Ohio, and was graduated in 1868. While at Princeton a warm attachment sprang up between the two young men, and this eventuated in Mr. Cowen being invited in 1872 by President Garrett, at Robert’s suggestion, to accept a position in the legal department of the Baltimore and Ohio Company.
After leaving college Robert Garrett went to Europe, where he spent considerable time in travel, returning, however, to the United States in 1871, at which time he entered the Baltimore and Ohio service as assistant to the president.
A little later he was elected president of the Valley division of the Baltimore and Ohio, extending from Harper’s Ferry, W. Va., to Lexington, Va., and during his administration, which continued until February 1875, the road was brought up to a high state of efficiency, and developed into one of the most valuable feeders of the Baltimore and Ohio system.
Retiring from the management of the Valley road in 1875 he again devoted several years to travel in various parts of the world and in recreation, and on October 8, 1879, he was elected third vice president of the B. and O. He was advanced to the position of first vice president July 13, 1881, and remained such until the death of his father, October, 1884, when the directors of the company elected him acting president, and a month later president.
His first step of importance after assuming control of the great system was to endeavor to secure control of the P., W. and B. railroad, in which he was thwarted by the Pennsylvania company when apparently upon the eve of success.
Then followed the building of a parallel line to Philadelphia in the face of legal and physical obstacles which seemed insurmountable. Soon after this he sold the Baltimore and Ohio telegraph system to the Western Union Company.
It was while these negotiations and others of like magnitude were in progress that Mr. Garrett was closeted in conference with the late William H. Vanderbilt in the latter’s mansion in New York, when the latter fell dead almost in Mr. Garrett’s arms.
This shock, together with the great nervous strain under which he had been for so long a time, completely unhinged Mr. Garrett’s mind, and it became necessary to place him in some private retreat. The country home of ex-Mayor Abram S. Hewitt of New York, at Ringwood, N. J., was selected for this purpose, and there Mr. Garrett lived for nearly a year.
He continued as president until October 12, 1887, when he resigned, since which time he has lived a quiet life; during that period traveling a great deal both in this and foreign countries.
During Mr. Garrett’s incumbency of the office of president of the B. and O. the head of the company was confronted with the solution of financial problems which proved too much for Mr. Garrett’s health, and for more than nine years he was an invalid.
Mr. Garrett was married about fifteen years ago to Miss Mary Frick, daughter of William F. Frick, a leading capitalist of Baltimore, who survives him.
The deceased was very wealthy, and besides his large holdings in the Baltimore and Ohio he owned a magnificent residence on Mount Vernon Place, Baltimore, a beautiful country seat, called “Uplands,” a few miles out of the city; an interest in the banking house of Robert Garrett & Sons, and other valuable property.
For a number of years past, especially since retiring from the presidency of the Baltimore and Ohio, Mr. Garrett devoted himself to works of charity, and was especially solicitous for the welfare of poor and sick little children whose forlorn condition was brought to the attention of Mrs. Garrett or himself. In order to make as many of these unfortunates as happy as possible, he several years ago purchased a fine estate on some of the highest hills in western Maryland, and here he and Mrs. Garrett built cottages so that children whose parents could not afford to give them an outing could be taken to the Mrs. Mary Garrett Sanitarium, as it was called and kept there as long as they or their parents desired them to stay. He also had in his employ for the institution at high salaries physicians and surgeons, who were regarded as specialists in their line, and trained nurses, so that the children entrusted to the care of those who represented him should suffer for nothing.
In addition to this Mr. Garrett has for many years provided the funds for conducting a large children’s hospital in the western part of the city of Baltimore, which has been the means of doing a vast amount of good and where hundreds of children are given medical or surgical attendance each month.
It is hardly probable that Mr. Garrett’s death will affect either of these institutions, as Mrs. Garrett takes the most active interest in both, and will doubtless see that the money to continue the good work will be provided.
"Obsequies of Robert Garrett.
(By Associated Press.)
Baltimore, Md., July 30 - The body of the late William Garrett will be buried in Greenmont cemetery, in this city, tomorrow afternoon, after services at Grace Episcopal church. Miss Mary Garrett, his sister, will be present at his funeral, but the other members of the family are in England."
The Evening Star (Washington, D.C.)
July 29, 1896
page 1
Baltimore, Md., July 29.—Robert Garrett, former president of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad, died at his cottage in Deer Park, Md., soon after 3 o’clock this morning. Although Mr. Garrett has been a hopeless mental invalid for many years, it was not thought that his physical infirmities were such as to cause any immediate uneasiness upon the part of his friends. About two weeks ago, however, he began to fail, and it was thought best to remove him from “Uplands,” his country home near Baltimore, to Deer Park, in the hope that the change of air and scenery would benefit him. The improvement was not as great as his physicians hoped for, and within the past week the patient suffered much from mental depression and melancholia. Monday his physical condition showed a marked change for the worse, and yesterday his condition became critical.
His devoted wife was with him when the end came, which was peaceful and apparently painless. The immediate cause of death is understood to be chronic nephritis, with which he has suffered for many years. The arrangements for the funeral are not yet complete, but it is though that it will take place in Baltimore Saturday. The news of his death was a profound surprise to the people of this city, where it was not generally known that Mr. Garrett was seriously ill.
Robert Garrett, second son of the late John W. Garrett, who was, as is well known, for many years president of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad Company, was born in Baltimore, Md., April 9, 1847.
After receiving his preliminary education in the best schools of his native city, he entered Princeton College, where he was a classmate of John K. Cowen, the present president of the Baltimore and Ohio, and was graduated in 1868. While at Princeton a warm attachment sprang up between the two young men, and this eventuated in Mr. Cowen being invited in 1872 by President Garrett, at Robert’s suggestion, to accept a position in the legal department of the Baltimore and Ohio Company.
After leaving college Robert Garrett went to Europe, where he spent considerable time in travel, returning, however, to the United States in 1871, at which time he entered the Baltimore and Ohio service as assistant to the president.
A little later he was elected president of the Valley division of the Baltimore and Ohio, extending from Harper’s Ferry, W. Va., to Lexington, Va., and during his administration, which continued until February 1875, the road was brought up to a high state of efficiency, and developed into one of the most valuable feeders of the Baltimore and Ohio system.
Retiring from the management of the Valley road in 1875 he again devoted several years to travel in various parts of the world and in recreation, and on October 8, 1879, he was elected third vice president of the B. and O. He was advanced to the position of first vice president July 13, 1881, and remained such until the death of his father, October, 1884, when the directors of the company elected him acting president, and a month later president.
His first step of importance after assuming control of the great system was to endeavor to secure control of the P., W. and B. railroad, in which he was thwarted by the Pennsylvania company when apparently upon the eve of success.
Then followed the building of a parallel line to Philadelphia in the face of legal and physical obstacles which seemed insurmountable. Soon after this he sold the Baltimore and Ohio telegraph system to the Western Union Company.
It was while these negotiations and others of like magnitude were in progress that Mr. Garrett was closeted in conference with the late William H. Vanderbilt in the latter’s mansion in New York, when the latter fell dead almost in Mr. Garrett’s arms.
This shock, together with the great nervous strain under which he had been for so long a time, completely unhinged Mr. Garrett’s mind, and it became necessary to place him in some private retreat. The country home of ex-Mayor Abram S. Hewitt of New York, at Ringwood, N. J., was selected for this purpose, and there Mr. Garrett lived for nearly a year.
He continued as president until October 12, 1887, when he resigned, since which time he has lived a quiet life; during that period traveling a great deal both in this and foreign countries.
During Mr. Garrett’s incumbency of the office of president of the B. and O. the head of the company was confronted with the solution of financial problems which proved too much for Mr. Garrett’s health, and for more than nine years he was an invalid.
Mr. Garrett was married about fifteen years ago to Miss Mary Frick, daughter of William F. Frick, a leading capitalist of Baltimore, who survives him.
The deceased was very wealthy, and besides his large holdings in the Baltimore and Ohio he owned a magnificent residence on Mount Vernon Place, Baltimore, a beautiful country seat, called “Uplands,” a few miles out of the city; an interest in the banking house of Robert Garrett & Sons, and other valuable property.
For a number of years past, especially since retiring from the presidency of the Baltimore and Ohio, Mr. Garrett devoted himself to works of charity, and was especially solicitous for the welfare of poor and sick little children whose forlorn condition was brought to the attention of Mrs. Garrett or himself. In order to make as many of these unfortunates as happy as possible, he several years ago purchased a fine estate on some of the highest hills in western Maryland, and here he and Mrs. Garrett built cottages so that children whose parents could not afford to give them an outing could be taken to the Mrs. Mary Garrett Sanitarium, as it was called and kept there as long as they or their parents desired them to stay. He also had in his employ for the institution at high salaries physicians and surgeons, who were regarded as specialists in their line, and trained nurses, so that the children entrusted to the care of those who represented him should suffer for nothing.
In addition to this Mr. Garrett has for many years provided the funds for conducting a large children’s hospital in the western part of the city of Baltimore, which has been the means of doing a vast amount of good and where hundreds of children are given medical or surgical attendance each month.
It is hardly probable that Mr. Garrett’s death will affect either of these institutions, as Mrs. Garrett takes the most active interest in both, and will doubtless see that the money to continue the good work will be provided.
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