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Financier John W Gates, died in Paris, body brought to NY on Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse there are a series of NYT articles on his illness and death, died from pneumonia and kidney disease query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9B03EEDF123AE6...

Hi, I'm an admin for a group called New York City Undertakers & Funeral Homes, and we'd love to have this added to the group!

This is taken from a window on New York's 5th Avenue, between 40th and 41st Streets, across from then New York Public Library.

Assuming Mrs. B. is the older lady on the left, she is Helen Van Cortlandt Morris Burr. A cameo of her is in the NY Historical Society collection: "Helen Van Cortlandt Morris (ca. 1885-1958) The subject was a sister of Monson Morris. As children she and her brother were members of the household of Alonzo C. Monson, a former judge of the California Supreme Court and treasurer of the New York Jockey Club. In 1904 Miss Morris married Nelson Beardsley Burr, a New York lawyer and railroad executive." www.nyhistory.org/node/45105 From "Men of 1914" genealogybiography.com/1914/biographies016.htm "Burr, Nelson B., 165 Broadway, New York City; residence, 1 East 51st St., N. Y. City; born in Auburn, N. Y., Feb. 3, 1871. Educated at Phillips Andover Academy, Yale University and Harvard Law School. Lieut.-Col. 12th Rgt. Inf. N.Y.N.G.; vice-pres. St. Louis & So. Western Rwy. Co.; director Am. Writing Paper Co., etc. Married 1904 to Helen Van Cortlandt Morris, of New York City. Member Union, University, Lawyers', St. Anthony, Seawanhaka-Corinthian Yacht, Yale, Racquet and Tennis, Foreign Wars and Spanish Am. War Vets." This was their Long Island estate: wikimapia.org/5878866/The-Anchorage-Lily-Hill