Arthur Caron (December 16, 1883 – July 4, 1914) was aFrench Canadian anarchist and a member of theIndustrial Workers of the World. Hemasterminded an attempt to assassinateJohn D. Rockefeller using a bomb constructed from dynamite. While building the device, he was killed along withCarl Hanson andCharles Berg on July 4, 1914, when his bombprematurely exploded. The blast also killed a renter of the building who was not part of the plot and injured dozens of others.[1] The bomb largely destroyed the top three floors of the building located at 1626 Lexington Avenue, New York City, New York.[2] In the wake of Caron's death, some 5,000 mourners gathered in New York's Union Square, where anarchist leadersAlexander Berkman andBecky Edelsohn among others spoke in memory of those who died.[3]
A large quantity of dynamite, which the police and certain friends of the leaders of theI. W. W. believe was being made into a bomb to be used in blowing up John D. Rockefeller's Tarrytown home, exploded prematurely at 9:16 o'clock in the upper story or on the roof of the new seven-story model tenement house at 1,626 Lexington Avenue.
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