The 1940s: Fashion: Deaths

THE 1940s: FASHION: DEATHS

Charles Sumner Beach, 94, inventor of the industrial knitting machine, 19 March 1947.

David Beecroft, 68, pioneer in the automobile industry and former president of the Society of Automobile Engineers, 5 November 1943.

Elmer Jared Bliss, 78, founder of the Regal Shoe Company, a well-known manufacturer of women's shoes, 1 July 1945.

William Starling Burgess, 68, naval architect and pioneering airplane designer, 19 March 1947.

George Cary, 86, nationally known architect, 5 May 1945.

Frederick C. Chandler, 71, one of the founders of the Chandler Motor Car Company, 18 February 1945.

Ralph A. Cram, 78, internationally famous architect who redesigned the Cathedral of Saint John the Divine in New York, 22 September 1942.

Paul Philippe Cret, 68, well-known architect, 8 September 1945.

V. Chapín Daggett, 84, founder and director of Daggett and Ramdell, a cosmetics manufacturer, 9 December 1943.

M. Max Dunning, 72, architectural adviser to the Public Buildings Administration commissioner, 19 April 1945.

Ernest Flagg, 90, designer of the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, 10 April 1947.

Edsel Bryant Ford, 49, president of the Ford Motor Company and son and sole heir of Henry Ford, 26 May 1943.

Henry Ford, 83, inventor of the Model T and creator of the modern automobile factory production system, 7 April 1947.

Joseph B. Gembering, 75, executive builder of New York's Triborough Bridge, 3 October 1943.

John Byron Goldsborough, 79, engineer in charge of the construction of several subways in New York and the Croton Dam, 26 March 1943.

Thomas P. Henry, 67, former president of the American Automobile Association, 8 September 1945.

S. Rae Hickok, 61 , president of Hickok Manufacturing Company, the largest maker of men's belts and buckles, 19 December 1945.

Francis Jaques, 62, architect who designed Pershing Hall, the American Legion headquarters in Paris, 3 August 1943.

Elizabeth Jordan, 79, author and former editor of Harper's Bazaar, 24 February 1947.

Albert Kahn, 73, architect and engineer who revolutionized the construction of industrial plants and designed the Ford aircraft plant at Willow Run, 8 December 1942.

William S. Knudsen, 69, president of the General Motors Corporation, who served as the production coordinator for the United States during World War II, 27 April 1948.

Howard C. Marmon, 66, designer of the Marmon Car and former vice-president and chief designer of the Marmon Motor Company, 4 April 1943.

Harry A. Miller, 68, designer and builder of race cars, boats, and airplane engines, 3 May 1943.

Howard Myers, 52, publisher of Architectural Forum and innovator in housing design, 18 September 1947.

Charles W. Nash, former president of General Motors and later head of the Nash Motor Company, 6 June 1948.

Patrick M. O'Meara, 55, nationally known architect of Catholic institutions, 26 October 1945.

Raymond M. Owen, 70, designer of the Owen-Magnetic, an early electric automobile, 29 April 1943.

Charles Alonzo Rich, 88, architect known for his designs for college buildings and opera houses, 3 December 1943.

Holton D. Robinson, 82, noted bridge engineer and designer of the George Washington Bridge over the Hudson River in New York, 7 May 1945.

Harry Sussman, 54, chief naval architect of the U.S. Naval Yard in Brooklyn, 13 December 1945.

Egerton Swartwout, 72, architect of the Missouri capítol, 18 February 1943.