Vincent Hugo Bendix

Vincent Hugo Bendix (August 12, 1881 – March 27, 1945) was an American inventor and industrialist.

Vincent Bendix was a pioneer and leader in both the automotive and aviation industries during the 1920s and 1930s.

He was eldest of three children born to Methodist clergyman, Reverend Jann Bengtsson, a native of Ångermanland, Sweden, and his wife Anna Danielson, also an immigrant from Sweden.

They later moved to Chicago, Illinois, and Vincent purchased the Palmer Mansion in July 1928, for $3,000,000.

[6][7] Bendix died at his home in New York on March 27, 1945, of coronary thrombosis.