Erik Hemmingsen of Kennett Square
Erik Hemmingsen, 95, of Kennett Square, died Dec. 30. He was professor of mathematics at Syracuse University from 1947 to 1987, and chair of its math department in the 1970s. His parents brought him to the US from Denmark in 1919. As a child he sailed with his father, captain of a four-masted schooner, and later was a cabin boy several times in summers on…