FROM POVERTY TO WEALTH.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 61, 14 October 1907, Page 4

FROM POVERTY TO WEALTH.

U Eli MAN IMMIOAXT WHO HECAME A MULTI-MILLIOXAIKE. New lork, August 28. Tile death of Mr Morris, which tool; place at Chicago on Tuesday, removes the last 01" that group o£ business men who Were familiarly known as ihtj Bi" Six." He diud worth anything from £15,000,000 to £25,000,000. Mr Morris was born in 183'.) in the Black Forest, in Germany, of peasant parents, and emigrated with them to the United States about twelve yens later. _ , On his arrival at Chicago he obtained a situation in the stockyards, his work consisting of cheeking the cattle as they entered the yard. lie at once saw what a great future there was for the tra'Je, and while sti'l a youth he began to buy a few head of cattle at a time and dispose of them at a profit to the great packing houses From these small beginning* his business increased with great rapidity, and he soon founded the well-known 1 ..of c-mtipanv of Nelson Morris and Co. This company not unly deals in live cattle, but also packs the meat, for Mr Morris very soon saw that more money could be made by starting a packing house, and he accordingly did so. The firm now deals with all lines, from the buying and selling Of the live cattle to the selling of the tinned meat The London branch—the MoTvis "Meal Compauv—has been a contractor to the Government for a number of years Mr Nelson Morris soon began to be recognised as a power ill Chicago, and with the late Philip Armour and Cosfavus F. Swift lie controlled pract'cilly all the great tinned meat trade carried on in that city.