"Doomed" magazine editor who worked to the end

It was on this day (July 16) in 1923 that John M. Siddall, editor of The American Magazine, then a major, mass-circulation title, died at home in Ardsley-on-Hudson, New York. The New York Times headlined his obituary the next day: "JOHN M. SIDDALL, DOOMED, WORKED ON; American Magazine Editor, Cancer Victim, Told Further Labor Would Hasten End. BUT REFUSED TO TAKE REST." Siddall was 49.