page_title: 1955 in Michigan
section_title: Deaths
hierarchical_section_title: 1955 in Michigan / Deaths
caption_attribution_description: English: Adolph Wolgast circa 1912-1913 [between 1910 and 1915] 1 negative&#160;: glass&#160;; 5 x 7 in. or smaller. Notes: Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards, with additional information from negative LC-B2-2462-13. Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Format: Glass negatives. Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication. Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print General information about the Bain Collection is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.ggbain Persistent URL: hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ggbain.11250 Call Number: LC-B2- 2491-14
context_page_description: Events from the year 1955 in Michigan
context_section_description: January 15 - Daniel A. Lord, Roman Catholic priest and writer, creator of the City of Freedom pageant for Detroit's 250th anniversary in 1951, at age 66 in St. Louis, Missouri
  January 21 - Archie Hahn, sprinter at University of Michigan who won four gold medals at 1904 and 1906 Olympics, at age 74 in Charlottesville, Virginia
  February 19 - William Warner Bishop, director of University of Michigan libraries (1915-1941) and author/expert in the field of library science, at age 83 in Ann Arbor, Michigan
  March 7 - Gaskell Romney, father of George W. Romney and grandfather of Mitt Romney, in Salt Lake City, Utah
  April 14 - Ad Wolgast, boxer known as the "Michigan Wildcat", world lightweight champion, at age 67 in a mental hospital in Camarillo, California
  June 4 - John McLean, football player and coach, track athlete, and silver medalist in hurdles at 1900 Olympics, at age 77
  June 13 - Bartel J. Jonkman, Congressman from Michigan's 5th District (1940-1949), at age 71 in Grand Rapids, Michigan
  August 10 - Jane Murfin, Michigan native, playwright (Smilin' Through]), and Academy Award nominated screenwriter (What Price Hollywood? and the Strongheart movies), at age 70 in Brentwood, Los Angeles, California
  August 29 - Francis X. Martel, president of the Detroit and Wayne County American Federation of Labor (AFL) for 36 years, at age 66 at the Grand Hotel on Mackinac Island.
  September 9 - Harry S. Toy, former Wayne County Prosecutor (1930-1935), Michigan Attorney General (1935-1937), Michigan Supreme Court (1937-1938), at age 63 in Detroit
  September 19 - John D. Dingell Sr., Congressman from Michigan's 15th District (1933-1955) and senior Democrat on the House Ways and Means Committee, at age 61 in Washington, D.C.
  September 19 - Carl Milles, sculptor in residence at Cranbrook from 1929 to 1945, at age 80 near Stockholm, Sweden
  October 7 - Jack Gibson, founder of the first fully professional hockey league, the IPHL, in northern Michigan, at age 75
  October 8 - Sumner Myers, professor and mathematician who specialized in topology, at age 45 of a heart attack while attending a Michigan football game in Ann Arbor
  November 29 - Rene Paul Chambellan, architectural sculptor whose work includes the Charity Crucifixion Tower at the National Shrine of the Little Flower in Royal Oak, at age 62 in Jersey City, New Jersey
  December 12 - Frank Culver, All-American lineman at Michigan, 1917 and 1919, at age 58 in Detroit
caption: Ad Wolgast
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