^"B. N. Duke, 73, Dies After Long Illness. Benjamin N. Duke". نيويورك تايمز. 9 يناير 1929. Benjamin N. Duke, the last of the famous Duke tobacco family, which built a one of the largest American fortunes of the nineteenth century and then gave most of it away in philanthropy, died at 5:45 o'clock yesterday morning at his home, 2 East Eighty-ninth Street.