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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. Gunsautus 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. 
