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E.M. STATLER DEAD AT 64 OF PNEUMONIA; Founder and Owner of Chain of Hotels, Who Rose From Bellboy, Ill Two Weeks. STARTED AT 50 CENTS A DAY Ran Billiard Parlor In Wheeling-- Built First Hotel at Buffalo Fair --Won Honor Legion Cross.

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E.M. Statler, founder and owner of the Statler chain of seven hotels throughout the East, died of double pneumonia at 6:05 o'clock yesterday morning at the Hotel Pennsylvania, where he lived. He was 64 years old. From a bellboy at the age of 13 he had risen to proprietor of a hotel... View Full Article in Timesmachine »