ARMOUR, PHILIP DANFORTH Ameri can merchant and philanthropist, was born in Stockbridge, N.Y., May 16, 1832. He was educated at Cazenovia academy, Caze novia, N.Y., worked for several years on his father's farm, and in 1852 went overland to California, where he laid the foundations of his fortune. In 1856 he became associated with his friend, Frederick S. Miles, in a wholesale grocery and commission busi ness at Milwaukee. In 1863 he became the head of the firm of Armour, Plankington and C6., pork packers. He also obtained a large interest in the firm of H. 0. Armour and Co., which was founded by his brother, Herman Ossian Armour (1837-1901), and which, starting as a grain commission business, in 1868 estab lished also a large pork-packing plant. Of this firm, the name of which was changed to Armour and Co. in 1870, he became the head in 1875. Besides contributing to many charitable enterprises, Armour founded the Armour Institute of Technology at Chicago in 1892 and the Armour flats in Chicago, built for the purpose of supplying at a low rental good homes for working men and their families. He died on Jan. 6, 19o1.