Page 240--FRANK J. HEARNE died Feb. 26, 1907, at his apartments at the Brown Palace Hotel in Denver, of perotonitis, after six weeks illness with grippe. The day of his funeral twenty-five thousand employees in the steel works ceased from labor from the noon hour till 2:30 o'clock, after which the body was placed aboard his private car, "Sunrise," and taken to Kansas City, Mo., where final services were held in the Armour Memorial Chapel, in Elmwood cemetery.

This death comes as a distinct shock to me, for I had learned to love him as I did his honored father, and little did I think he would be called home before I, as he seemed such a vigorous and strong man, eleven years my junior. He was taking a lively interest in my work on the new edition of the history, and rendering me all the aid he could. It is not very many years since he deserted his beautiful home, HEARNE-LEE (a beautiful blending of his name and his wife's), in Wheeling, to go to Pittsburg, on promotion in the great industrial interest to which he was devoting his life's best energies. Soon he again was drafted to desert another palatial home in Pittsburg to go to Colorado to be the head of still larger interests, the COLORADO FUEL AND IRON COMPANY, which had already made wonderful achievement under the management of J. C. Osgood, with a seventy-five million dollar investment. Very soon after Mr. Hearne took charge, he notified Messrs. Gould and Rockefeller that a million dollars was needed at once to make necessary improvements, which was promptly furnished, and later the company was refinanced in such a way as to place thirteen millions more at his disposal. "You are to have a free hand and all the money you need," said his big employers. He soon got everything in the best possible shape and yielding large returns.

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