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Hokitika Guardian, 29 June 1922, Page 1

-Mi} If. P. DAVISON DEAD. I XICW YORK. May S. AI r Henry Pumoroy Davison, one of the principal figures of American finance a partner of the linn of J. P. Morgan and Co,, died yesterday at his country residence on Long Island during an I operation for the removal of a tumour | near the hrain. Death ended a period i of suffering which had lasted nearly a yen r. Mr Davison understood that there was only a small chance of the operation saving Ids life, hut lie faced death with a hearing which his friends describe as dehonnair. The night before ’ the operation he sat with surgeons exchanging humorous stories. Awaking yesterday morning to find the sunshine I streaming into the room, he sent a note to Dr Charles Salslmrg, who was to |x>rform tlio operation, suggesting that it should he postponed so that they could 1 go fishing. -Mr Davison was 35. His career was one of the romances of American business. In IS years he rose from the position of hank messenger to he one of the principal partners in the Morgan firm, one of the great powers of the American hanking world. Air Pierpont Moigau repeatedly described him as one i of the greatest partners lie had ever had in business. The greatest work of his life, however 1 was done outside the world of business after President Wilson had called him ' to he the head of the American lied Cross on the entry of the United States . into the war. Mr Davison had no passion for moneyI making, his fortune being estimate!! at the comparatively small amount of ‘ £1,000,000. He was one of the most ' heavily insured men in the United States, his policies totalling more than ; €500,00(1.

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