Through Glacier Park: Seeing America First With Howard Eaton [With Engraved Bookplate Of J. Ogden Armour]

Boston And New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1916. 2nd Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 92 Pp. Green Cloth Stamped In White And Black. Fiorst Printing (1916 On Title Page). Dust Jacket P;Riced 75 Cents, Wear With Small Losses At Cornersl. Engraved Bookplate Of J. Ogden Armour. Per Wikipedia, "Jonathan Ogden Armour (1863 - 1927) Was An American Meatpacking Magnate And Only Surviving Son Of Civil War-Era Industrialist Philip Danforth Armour. He Became Owner And President Of Armour & Company Upon The Death Of His Father In 1901. During His Tenure As President, Armour And Co. Expanded Nationwide And Overseas, Growing From A Mid-Sized Regional Meatpacker To The Largest Food Products Company In The United States...To Finance The Company's Growth During World War I, Armour Sold $60 Million In Bonds To The Public In 1917. These Bonds Were Converted To Stock In 1919, Making Armour & Co. One Of The First Publicly Traded Meatpacking Firms.[1] Thanks To His Fortune In Meat And Interests In The Railways, Armour Was Known As "The Second Richest Man In The World." The Company Lost $125 Million Between 1919 And 1921. In The Post-War Slump, Armour & Co. Sales Collapsed And The Company Went $144 Million In Debt. Armour Suffered The Most When He Lost Most Of His Family Fortune-At $100 Million In Stock (About $1.47 Billion In 2010 Dollars; Then The Second-Largest In The World) In The Downturn. During The Worst Period, Armour Lost A Million Dollars A Day For 130 Days. Armour's Daughter Lolita Married Chicago Banker Jj Mitchell In 1921 At The Family's Estate In Lake Forest. Armour Was Unable To Reinvigorate The Company, And Was Ousted As President In 1923. His Successor Was F. Edson White. Amidst Armour's Profound Financial Losses, He Lost Mellody Farms, Which Is Now Part Of The Campus Of Lake Forest Academy. In The Summer Of 1927, Amour Traveled To London, England, And Fell Ill With Typhoid And Then Pneumonia. As His Condition Worsened, He Was Attended By Lord Dawson Of Penn, Personal Physician To King George V. Armour Died Of Heart Failure At 4:30 P.M. London Time On August 16, 1927. He Had Less Than $25,000 In Cash In His Accounts, Although His Stock Holdings In The Universal Oil Products Company Were Estimated At $3 Million (About $37 Million In 2010 Dollars). Years Later This "Worthless Stock" Became Valuable And Made His Widow Wealthy.