American Decades
Deaths
Benjamin L. Armstrong, 85, known as the "dean of silk producers"; for sixty-eight years Armstrong was associated with the silk industry, founding several production companies in New London, Connecticut, 20 October 1929.
Henry Bacon, 57, architect best remembered for designing public monuments, particularly the Lincoln Memorial, with seated figure of Lincoln by sculptor Daniel Chester French, 16 February 1924.
Alvah Norton Belding, 86, last of four brothers who founded Belding Brothers, a pioneer manufacturer and distributor of silk thread, 19 December 1925.
Carl Benz, 84, German engineer who in 1886 developed what was probably the world's first motorcar, 3 April 1929.
Charles I. Berg, 70, designer of one of New York City's first skyscrapers, the twenty-story Gillenger Building erected in 1897 at Wall Street and Nassau Street, 13 October 1926.
Alfred Cartier, 84,...
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1920's Fashion
