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education to boys too poor to attend regular colleges was 

 unfolded by the clergyman. After the sermon, Mr. Armour 

 approached Dr. Gunsaulus and said, "If you will give your time 

 to such an institution as you have outlined, I will give you the 

 money." From this the Armour Institute was founded, on a 

 benefaction running up into millions of dollars. 



When Mr. Armour died, January 6, 1901, he had developed a 

 business that employed more people than any other single con- 

 cern in the world, and whose annual income was approximately 

 $180,000,000. His death resulted from heart trouble, but even 

 to his last days he remained the same energetic and enthusiastic 

 worker as of old, refusing to remain idle, despite the advice of 

 his physician. When his portrait was hung in the Hall of Fame at 

 the University of Illinois, many of the big men of the business 

 and agricultural world gathered, to pay tribute to his achieve- 

 ments. Today he stands as one of the most prominent figures of 

 all history in the nation's commercial development. 



