Obituary of Benjamin Brandreth

A period newspaper obituary (Brooklyn Daily Eagle, February 20, 1880, the day after his death), transcribed in full on the Find a Grave memorial page for Benjamin Holmes Brandreth and fetched directly from that page (not from a search-tool summary). States: "Benjamin Brandreth, the well known manufacturer of patent medicines, died suddenly at his residence at Sing Sing yesterday in his seventy-second year." "He was at the factory in the morning at half-past six, and worked an hour or two in the mixing room." "He returned to breakfast, and while in a wash room alone died suddenly of embolism of the heart." "Mr. Brandreth was a native of Leeds, England, and studied medicine with his grandfather." Also states he came to New York in 1835, built the Brandreth House at Canal Street and Broadway in 1857, that "during the first twenty years of his career he expended nearly the entire profits of his business - $150,000 a year - in advertising," that "His estate is estimated at between two and three millions," and that he was survived by a widow and thirteen children, and: "In politics he was a Democrat, and in 1849 was elected to the Senate and served four years." The same memorial page's grave-inscription transcription gives a birth date of June 23, 1809, and a death date of Feb. 19, 1880, consistent with this obituary's dateline (the 20th, describing a death 'yesterday') and with Appletons' Cyclopaedia's 19 February 1880 death date. Used for the cause and circumstances of death, the estate valuation, the advertising-spending figure (a different figure and period than the 1849 congressional report's, both cited separately), the birthplace of Leeds, and the obituary's own account of state senate service.