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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: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Sg.2ADI/1834.1.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Actually, right after I sent that last one, I tried one more thing and found this, from the Tribune, December 9, 1994: EDWARD BENNETT, ARCHITECT By Kenan Heise, Tribune Staff Writer. Edition: Chicago Tribune Edward H. Bennett Jr., 78, an architect and planner in Lake Forest, had served as director of the Chicago Regional Planning Association from 1952 to 1958 and as chairman of the Lake County Regional Planning Association from 1960 to 1970. A resident of Lake Forest, he died at home Wednesday. His father and Daniel H. Burnham wrote the famous Chicago Plan of 1909 that resulted in changes not only in the city but in other cities and countries where its broad strokes were imitated. Mr. Bennett was a member of the architectural firm of Schweikher & Elting from 1953 to 1954 and of Elting & Bennett from 1954 to 1956. As chairman of the Lake County Regional Planning Association, he led an unsuccessful fight in the early 1960s to keep the North Shore electric railroad from going out of business. He had served as a director of the Lyric Opera of Chicago, a trustee of the Art Institute of Chicago, a trustee of the Chicago Orchestral Association and a director of the Arts Club of Chicago. Mr. Bennett was the first president of the Lake Forest Preservation Foundation. Survivors include his wife, Katharine; a son, Edward III; two stepsons, David Cook Phillips II and Frederick Falley Phillips; and four grandsons. Services will be private.

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