This file contains three biographical sources, a short obituary from the Chicago Tribune, March 2, 1917, 13; a longer statement in the Obituary Record of the Graduates of Yale University, 1904-06, 422-23; and a copy of an autobiographical manuscript by David Dangler and covering also his brother Henry.  The source of the last may be Corwith Hamill, Wayne, IL.     

Cleveland native Dangler graduated form Yale in 1904 and attended the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris, studying architecture until 1909, when he returned to Chicago and entered the firm of AIAGold Medal architect Howard Van Doren Shaw.  His mother, Mrs. Charles Dangler, was one of four Chicago-raised Corwtih sisters, the rest by 1909 living on the lake in Lake Forest.  That year she acquired the 1906 Mark Skinner Willing Fairmore lakefront house on Stone Gate, Frost & Granger architects (see Claasic Country Estgates of Lake Forest..., 2003).  By 1911 Dangler was joined in the Shaw office by David Adler, and then together they started their own firm, officially and full-time by Jan. 1, 1913, but unofficially earlier--working notably on the Ralph Poole 18th C. French estate (landsc. F. L. Olmsted, Jr., documented in this collection), Green Bay Road, Lake Bluff, already by then and other projects. 

In 1916 Dangler became ill (tuberculosis) and he died in 1917.  But by then he had designed a villa for his cousin, Alfred E. Hamill, 1115 E. Illinois (a block west of his mother's summer place) and worked iwth Adler on some stellar prjects in Lake Forest (Cudahy I, Pike) and some notable townhouses on Chicago's north side.