BACON, HENRY (1866-1924), American architect, was born at Watseka, Ill., Nov. 28 1866. In 1884 he entered the University of Illinois to study architecture. From 1888 to 1897 he was with McKim, Meade & White, in New York, except the years 1889-91, which he spent in Europe as Rotch Travelling Scholar. From 1897 to 1903 he was a member of the firm of Brite & Bacon, in New York. After that time he worked inde pendently. He designed the Court of the Four Seasons at the Panama-Pacific Expositions; the Union Square Savings Bank, New York city; the Public Library, Paterson, N.J.; the Water bury General hospital, Waterbury, Conn., and the Whittemore memorial bridge, Naugatuck, Connecticut. Of numerous monu ments, some designed in collaboration with various sculptors, the following should be mentioned: the Lafayette monument, Brooklyn, N.Y.; the Lincoln monument, Lincoln, Neb. ; the Longfellow monument, Cambridge, Mass. ; the Republic monu ment and the Centennial monument, Chicago, Ill. ; the President Harrison monument, Indianapolis, Ind.; the Civil War memorial and World War memorial, Yale University, and the Parnell monument, Dublin, Ireland. In 1920 the Lincoln memorial, at Washington, D.C., designed by him, was completed at a cost of more than $2,500,00o. He died Feb. 16 1924, in New York city.