Francis Wayland Ayer, 75, "ad" pioneer, founder of advertising and public relations firm that later became N. W. Ayer and Son, 5 March 1923.

William James Baldwin, 79, pioneer skyscraper constructor, 7 May 1924.

Ohio C. Barber, 79, "Match King" of the Diamond Match Company, 4 February 1920.

Clarence Walker Barron, 70, pioneer in stock-market journalism, founder of Boston News Bureau (1887) and Philadelphia News Bureau (1897), publisher of the Wall Street Journal (1901-1928), founder of Barron's Business and Financial Weekly (1921), 20 October 1928.

John Jacob Bausch, 95, founder (1853), with Henry Lomb, and president of Bausch and Lomb Optical Company, 14 February 1926.

William H. Beardsley, 73, president of Florida East Coast Railway, 13 December 1925.

Alexander Graham Bell, 75, inventor of the telephone and founder, with Gardiner G. Hubbard and others, of Bell Telephone Company, 2 August 1922.

Emil Berolzheimer, 60, pencil manufacturer, 25 May 1922.

Nicholas Biddle, 44, financier and trustee of the Astor estate, member of the Biddle family of Philadelphia, influential in legal and financial affairs, 18 February 1923.

Irving Ingersoll Bloomingdale, 51, New...