Union and Advertiser July 12, 1888 Rochester, NY Monroe Co. HIRAM SIBLEY DEAD This Well-Known Citizen Goes to his Last Rest Hiram SIBLEY, the aged and well-known citizen whose death had been hourly expected since Monday evening last, passed quietly away at 10:35 o'clock this morning. Mr. SIBLEY did not regain consciousness after he suffered the stroke of apoplexy so that the transition from life to death was gradual and scarcely apparent. His family were about his bedside for the last three days and up to his last moments. A complete and accurate sketch of Mr. SIBLEY's life was published in Tuesday's Union and Advertiser. Mr. SIBLEY was a millionaire many times over and was a remarkable instance of a self-made man. From humble beginnings he rose to a position of wealth and influence. In his seed business, in farming on a large scale and in the telegraph business during its infancy he displayed financial and executive ability of a high order. As a friend of Mr. SIBLEY's said this morning: "He was a man who thoroughly mastered the details of any business he went into. He usually went into some branch of business which nobody else would take hold of and made a grand success of it. He succeeded in everything he undertook. There seemed to be money in everything he touched. In mercantile transactions he was strict. When he gave anything he gave it freely as, for instance, his gifts to Cornell University." Mr. SIBLEY leaves besides his wife, one son Hiram W. SIBLEY and one daughter, Mrs. I.S. AVERELL. Arrangements for the funeral have not yet been made. Submitted by: Patricia Stillwell Mims