Time magazine cover, above: December 14, 1931
1894: PhD at University of Berlin
1919: founder of the Oriental Museum at the University of Chicago
born in Rockford, IL; buried in Greenwood Cemetery, Rockford IL
See also “American Egyptologist” 1 copy in Local History
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“Brief Illness is Fatal…” source: Rockford Register Republic Dec. 2, 1935’
“Breasted Dies of Infection, 7th to Succumb Since Opening of Tomb” from Rockford Morning Star, Dec. 3, 1935
“Granite From Ancient Egypt to Mark Breasted’s Burial Place” Rockford Register Republic Jan. 19, 1938