Pittsburgh, March 9~Henry C. McEldowney, 67, president of the Union Trust Company of Pittsburgh, one of the city's largest banking houses, died at Atlantic City today from heart disease, it was announced here.
Mr. McEldowney had been residing at the seaboard resort for the past three or four weeks on the advice of physicians as a recuperative measure for his ailing heart. Death overtook him at 6:30 o'clock this morning in the Traymore Hotel where he stayed.
McEldowney was president of Union Trust, generally recognized as one of the largest units in the banking and industrial empire of the Melon family, for the past 35 years. He was active in other business and civic life of Pittsburgh.
His body is to be brought to Pittsburgh Sunday for funeral services at Ashbury Methodist Episcopal Church.
Among the survivors are his widow, Mrs. Annabel Doyle McEldowney, a son, Robert McEldowney, Johnston, and two daughters.
Bury McEldowney In Pittsburgh Today
Pittsburgh, March 11--International financiers and industrialists will attend the funeral services for Henry C. McEldowney, the highest paid banker in 1934m in Ashbury Methodist Episcopal church here today.
Among the honorary pallbearers are such names as Andrew W. Mellon, Owen D. Young, Harold S Vanderbilt and Gerald Swope.
McEldowney, who headed the Union Trust company of Pittsburgh, a $260,000,000 concern, for 34 years, died in Atlantic City Salary as president of the bank was $180,000, the Federal government announced, the highest of any bank president in the country.
He held a position on many large companies board of directors and guided the destinies of bank which the Union Trust controlled.
Burial will be in the Homewood cemetery.
Pittsburgh, March 9~Henry C. McEldowney, 67, president of the Union Trust Company of Pittsburgh, one of the city's largest banking houses, died at Atlantic City today from heart disease, it was announced here.
Mr. McEldowney had been residing at the seaboard resort for the past three or four weeks on the advice of physicians as a recuperative measure for his ailing heart. Death overtook him at 6:30 o'clock this morning in the Traymore Hotel where he stayed.
McEldowney was president of Union Trust, generally recognized as one of the largest units in the banking and industrial empire of the Melon family, for the past 35 years. He was active in other business and civic life of Pittsburgh.
His body is to be brought to Pittsburgh Sunday for funeral services at Ashbury Methodist Episcopal Church.
Among the survivors are his widow, Mrs. Annabel Doyle McEldowney, a son, Robert McEldowney, Johnston, and two daughters.
Bury McEldowney In Pittsburgh Today
Pittsburgh, March 11--International financiers and industrialists will attend the funeral services for Henry C. McEldowney, the highest paid banker in 1934m in Ashbury Methodist Episcopal church here today.
Among the honorary pallbearers are such names as Andrew W. Mellon, Owen D. Young, Harold S Vanderbilt and Gerald Swope.
McEldowney, who headed the Union Trust company of Pittsburgh, a $260,000,000 concern, for 34 years, died in Atlantic City Salary as president of the bank was $180,000, the Federal government announced, the highest of any bank president in the country.
He held a position on many large companies board of directors and guided the destinies of bank which the Union Trust controlled.
Burial will be in the Homewood cemetery.
Family Members
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James Herron McEldowney
1848–1866
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John W McEldowney
1850–1857
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Robert A McEldowney
1851–1853
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Robert R McEldowney
1854–1857
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Sarah Shepard McEldowney Wright
1859–1933
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Hester L McEldowney
1860–1955
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John McFarland McEldowney
1862–1863
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Frank McEldowney
1864–1864
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Mary McEldowney
1865–1866
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William Culp McEldowney
1866–1943
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Allen Wilson McEldowney
1869–1946
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