Andrew J. Davis, aged 77, of South Franklin Street, a retired millionaire coal operator, died yesterday at his summer home, Bar Harbor, Maine, after a long period of invalidism. The body will be brought to this city for interment.
He has lived retired for about five years, spending his summers at Bar Harbor, and traveling much of the time. For the past two years his health has been failing.
He was a self-made man. As a young man he clerked in a Wilkes-Barre store.
The way to wealth opened-up when he entered the coal business as an operator. He first operated the Grand Tunnel mine at Avondale with the late W.J. Harvey as a partner. Later he leased a large tract at Warrior Run and for nearly forty years operated it successfully, retiring after he sold the property to the Lehigh Valley Coal Company, receiving for it, it is said, a million dollars.
He has lived retired for about five years, spending his summers at Bar Harbor, and traveling much of the time. For the past two years his health has been failing.
He was a self-made man. As a young man he clerked in a Wilkes-Barre store.
The way to wealth opened-up when he entered the coal business as an operator. He first operated the Grand Tunnel mine at Avondale with the late W.J. Harvey as a partner. Later he leased a large tract at Warrior Run and for nearly forty years operated it successfully, retiring after he sold the property to the Lehigh Valley Coal Company, receiving for it, it is said, a million dollars.
Andrew J. Davis, aged 77, of South Franklin Street, a retired millionaire coal operator, died yesterday at his summer home, Bar Harbor, Maine, after a long period of invalidism. The body will be brought to this city for interment.
He has lived retired for about five years, spending his summers at Bar Harbor, and traveling much of the time. For the past two years his health has been failing.
He was a self-made man. As a young man he clerked in a Wilkes-Barre store.
The way to wealth opened-up when he entered the coal business as an operator. He first operated the Grand Tunnel mine at Avondale with the late W.J. Harvey as a partner. Later he leased a large tract at Warrior Run and for nearly forty years operated it successfully, retiring after he sold the property to the Lehigh Valley Coal Company, receiving for it, it is said, a million dollars.
He has lived retired for about five years, spending his summers at Bar Harbor, and traveling much of the time. For the past two years his health has been failing.
He was a self-made man. As a young man he clerked in a Wilkes-Barre store.
The way to wealth opened-up when he entered the coal business as an operator. He first operated the Grand Tunnel mine at Avondale with the late W.J. Harvey as a partner. Later he leased a large tract at Warrior Run and for nearly forty years operated it successfully, retiring after he sold the property to the Lehigh Valley Coal Company, receiving for it, it is said, a million dollars.
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