Donn Barber

As it must to all men, Death came to Donn Barber, famed architect. He died last week in Manhattan after suffering for three weeks with tumor of the brain. Although, during this period, a sinister and daily exaggerated swelling of the skull made it clear to him that he was doomed, Mr. Barber, with that unruffled suavity which is the highest manifestation of civilized courage, continued to transact business over the telephone, finished the last details of plans he knew he would never see executed, set his affairs in order.

Born in 1871, Architect Barber was educated at Yale. Upon graduation, he took special courses at Columbia, then at the Beaux Arts, Paris, where he was the ninth U. S. student to receive a diploma. After an apprenticeship in the offices of Carrere & Hastings, Cass Gilbert and Lord & Hewlett, he set up his own firm. His career since then is written in such buildings as: Connecticut State Library, Hartford Aetna National Bank, Aetna Life Insurance, in Hartford; the Department of Justice Building in Washington; and in Manhattan: the New York Cotton Exchange, National Park Bank, the Mutual Bank, the Lotus Club, the Institute of Musical Art.