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. Chapin 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...