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Joseph Nathaniel French
(1888–1975)

Joseph Nathaniel French I (1888-1975) was a Massachusetts Institute of Technology graduate who worked as a draftsman and later as an architect with Albert Kahn Associates, Inc. He died in 1975 at age 86. (b. October 24, 1888; Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, USA - d. February 28, 1975; Livonia, Wayne County, Michigan, USA)

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His death. "Services for Joseph Nathaniel French, a retired architect, will be at 1 p.m. Monday at St. Paul Memorial Church, 14025 Hubbell. Mr. French, 86, died Friday in his home in Livonia. A graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, he came to Detroit in 1913 to work as an architect on Henry Ford's home, Fairlane. He joined the architectural firm of Albert Kahn Associates in 1914 and retired from that company in 1967. In the meantime be had served as chief architect for the Fisher Building, taught methods of industrial construction in Russia and, during World War II, designed installations for the Army and Navy throughout the world. Surviving are his wife, Yolanda C.; five daughters, Mrs. Juanita Murchie, Mrs. Christina Charles, Mrs. Victor Kochajda, Mrs. Natalie Cangelosi and Mrs. David Henning; a son, Dr. Joseph N.; one sister; 22 grandchildren, and eight great-grand-children."

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