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    1. Re: Bennett - Olive Mary,(Holden) and Edward H.
    2. This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Bennett Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Sg.2ADI/1834.1.1.1 Message Board Post: After searching a little more, the only other thing I could easily find was this, from the Chicago Tribune on Oct. 16, 1954: E. H. BENNETT, ARCHITECT AND PLANNER, DIES Aided Burnham in Developing City Edition: Chicago Tribune Edward Herbert Bennett, 80, of 89 E. Deerpath, Lake Forest, architect and city planner, died Thursday in Tryon, N. C., where he also had a residence, it was learned here yesterday. Mr. Bennett, the son of a clipper ship captain, was born in England. He studied architecuture in San Francisco and was graduated from the Ecole Des Beaux Arts in Paris in 1900. He was associated with Daniel Burnham in developing the Chicago plan. Mr. Bennett's architectural firm was one of the first city planning groups in the United States. The firm designed Grant park and the Clarence Buckingham memorial fountain. He was a member of the architectural commission which designed the Century of Progress exposition in 1933-34. Mr. Bennett also designed the Apex building in the Mall in Washington, D. C. He leaves his widow, Olive M.; a son, Edward H. Jr. of Lake Forest, a Chicago architect, and a grandson, Edward H. III.

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