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Armour, Philip Danforth (1832-1901). "The Pork Baron", meatpacking industrialist, founder of the Chicago-based Armour & Co.; after making $8000 in the California Goldrush, Armour opened a wholesale grocery business in Cincinnati, then moved to Milwaukee; made millions of dollars selling meat to the U.S. Army during the Civil War. Typed Letter Signed "Philip D Armour". One page, on Armour's stationery, 8 3/8 x 10 7/8", Chicago, Feb. 28, 1895. Writing to J[ules].G. Lombard of Omaha, Armour remarks on Lombard's genial letter, his overall affability, and his singing - "you sing better than any man I ever heard". But "wouldn't listen a minute to your traveling back and forth from Omaha. You and I have got too old to do that, or to think of doing it." Armour sends his love to Lombard's family and signs in black below. Mounting stains on back. Fine.

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