[Chicago's Gilded Age] A Memorial to Philip Danforth Armour, Jr. by Gunsaulus, Dr. Frank W - 1900

No Place [Chicago]: No Publisher (Designed and Published By Ralph Fletcher Seymour), 1900. RARE Memorial book designed and published by Ralph Fletcher Seymour ("Seymour Arr." stamped under decorations at end pages) for the funeral of Philip Danforth Armour, Jr., who died tragically at the age of 31 after a hike in Santa Barbara, California on January 26,1900. Mauve paper covered boards stamped in gilt with Arts and Crafts floral decorations front and rear, decorative floral end papers, frontispiece portrait with printed tissue guard, illustrated title page and illustrated throughout with floral decorations, 28 pages, uncut and unpaginated, printed in text rectos only with some floral illustrations printed versos. Laid in are the signature of Danforth, JR. on a small slip of paper along with the black-edged calling card of wis widow and a contemporary clipping from a Los Angele area newspaper detailing Armour's sudden death. Near Fine, the spine slightly sunned. The text consists of the remarks at the funeral service by Dr. Frank W. Gunsaulus, a noted preacher, educator, pastor, author and humanitarian. Famous for his "Million Dollar Sermon" which led Philip Danforth Armour to donate money to found Armour Institute of Technology where Gunsaulus served as president for its first 27 years. Ralph Fletcher Seymour was the proprietor of the Alderbrink Press in Chicago, noted for his fine Arts and Crafts printing style, which he continued into the 1950s. Philip Danforth Armour, Jr. was the son of the Chicago meat-packing industrialist Philip Danforth Armour Sr.(May 16, 1832 - January 6, 1901). RARE, not found at OCLC, no copies in current commerce, no historical auction records noted at RBH. Quite possibly a one-of-a-kind book presented to the widow. . Decorative Paper Covered Board. Near Fine/No Jacket, As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.