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Henry C. Goldmark (1857–1941) was an American engineer who designed and installed the
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Biography

Henry Goldmark was born in
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on June 15, 1857. He was an 1874 graduate of the
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. He earned a bachelor's degree at
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, and graduated from the Royal Polytechnic University at Hanover,
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in 1880. He married Mary Carter Tomkins on June 8, 1899, and they had two children. He died in
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on January 15, 1941, after being struck by an automobile the previous night.


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1857 births 1941 deaths Polytechnic Institute of New York University alumni American engineers Harvard University alumni University of Hanover alumni Expatriates in the German Empire {{US-engineer-stub