John W. Sterling.Lawyer, Dies onA Fishing Trip

Well - Known CounsellorSuccumbs to HeartDisease in Canada

Rockefeller AdviserFirm of Which He Was SeniorMember Defended Henry

Ward Beecher

.lohn \V. Sterling, senior member of,the law tirm of Shearman & Sterling:,55 IVall Street, died unexpectedly ofheart disease Friday evening at thecastle of Lord Mount Stephen, at GrandMetis, on the Metapedia River. Canada,where he was spending a vacation. Hewas in his sevotitv-fourth year.Mr. Sterling lived at 912 Fifth Ave-i

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nue. He was in his usual health whenhe departed for his annual salmon fish-ing vacation on Saturday, June 13, andletters that ho wrote as recently asThursday night were received yester¬day morning at his office in the Na¬tional City Hank building. It had beenMr, Sterling's custom for many yearsto visit Lord Mount Stephen's castleand preserves on the Metapedia Uiver.Mr. Sterling took with him on his vncntion thi¿i year Percy Rockefeller, .lamesA, Stillman, chairman of th° board "f(tie National City Bunk; Charlea V.Rich, vice-president oi mat institution,and S. M. Swenson. The news of Mr.Sterling's death came yesterday in adispatch sent by Percy Rockefeller toMr. Sterling's law partner, .lohn A.Garver, Mr. Sterling's body will ar¬rive Monday night, and the funeral ser¬vices will be on Tuesday.

Famed as an OrganizerAlthough probably one of the most

widely known lawyers because of hisprominence in connection with men oflarge affairs and corporations, Mr. .Ster¬ling had not appeared as an advocatein court for many years. Me was a manof remarkable ability ns an organizer.Ho was executor and a trustee of manylarge estates. Among these were theestates of the late 11. 11. Rogers, LordStrathcona, William L. Scott, prominentin the affairs of the Erie Railroad;Charles J. Osborn, Matthew C, P. Bor-den and James Stillman, chairman ofthe board of the National City Rank.For many years he was the confidentialadviser of the late James J. Hill and,up to his death, of William Rockefeller.The firm of Shearman & Sterling is

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