Monday, Jan. 01, 1940
Married. Major Graham Christopher Dugas, unearther of a $40,000,000 gold lode in abandoned Calhoun mine, Dahlonega, Ga., subsequent quick-purchaser of a new gold-trimmed, custom-built car; and Mrs. Bessie Brady Bellinger; in Atlanta.
Died. Anthony Herman Gerard Fokker, 49, eccentric, Dutch aeronautical engineer, plane builder for Germany in World War I, since then for Rear Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd, for Sir Charles Kingsford-Smith, for Amelia Earhart; a U. S. citizen since 1931; of pneumococcus meningitis; in Manhattan.
Died. Mrs. Caroline Starr Balestier Kipling, 73, American-born widow of English Rudyard Kipling; in her home, Bateman's, Burwash, Sussex. Kipling was born Dec. 30, 1865, she Dec. 31, 1865; they were married Jan. 18, 1892; he died, with her at his bedside, on Jan. 18, 1936.
Died. George Eumorfopoulos, 76, English-born Greek art collector who gave his priceless Oriental and Chinese ceramics, bronzes, sculptures to the British Museum and the Victoria & Albert Museum for a paltry $500,000 (TIME, Jan. 28, 1935); in London.
Died. Alexander Mair Stewart, 82, Canadian-born building contractor responsible for the erection of Mitsui Gomei Kaisha bank in Tokyo, the Hotel Savoy in London, Chateau Frontenac in Quebec, the capitols of Utah, Oklahoma, Idaho, Madison Square Garden in Manhattan, and in Washington the Interstate Commerce, Department of Labor and U. S. Chamber of Commerce buildings; of heart disease; in Manhattan.
Died. Wilberforce James Whiteman, 82, music teacher, remembered by 125,000 people whom he taught to sing, play in Denver's schools; of pneumonia; in Denver, Colo. His son, Bandsman Paul Whiteman, flew twice across the continent to visit him during his illness.
Died. Rear Admiral Reginald Fairfax Nicholson, 87, last surviving Civil War naval officer; of a heart attack; in the Naval Hospital, Washington, D. C. He served as chief navigation officer (1898) of the battleship Oregon on its spectacular trip around Cape Horn to join the U. S. fleet off Cuba. He was one of the two naval men in history to rise from the ranks to wear an admiral's four stars. (The other: John Paul Jones.)
Died. Lord Ughtred James Kay-Shuttleworth, Baron of Gawthorpe, 95, friend of Gladstone, Privy Councilor for a half century, M. P. under twelve Prime Ministers from 1869 to 1902, when he received his barony in the coronation of Edward VII; in London.
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