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- <title>
- Aug. 14, 1989: Died:William Larimer Mellon Jr.
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
- Aug. 14, 1989 The Hostage Agony
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
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- MILESTONES, Page 76
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- <p> DIED. William Larimer Mellon Jr., 79, a scion of the
- blue-chip Mellon family who, at 37, left his Arizona cattle
- ranch to become a doctor and minister to Haiti's poor; in
- Deschapelles, Haiti. Using $1.5 million of his inheritance, he
- built a hospital in central Haiti, where he inoculated 15,000
- people a month and decreased the local tuberculosis mortality
- rate 90%.
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