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J. Blair Scribner

Publisher

Centurion, 1877–1879

Full Name John Blair Scribner

Born 4 June 1850 in New York (Manhattan), New York

Died 21 January 1879 in New York (Manhattan), New York

Buried Woodlawn Cemetery, Bronx, New York

Proposed by Richard H. Stoddard and Edmund C. Stedman

Elected 10 March 1877 at age twenty-six

Archivist’s Note: Brother of Arthur H. Scribner and Charles Scribner; uncle of Charles Scribner

Century Memorial

Joseph E. Buckley [sic: Bulkley], Walter Brown, Alfred W. Craven, Edward F. Davidson, Jonathan Edgar, Admiral Godine, the Rev. Benjamin I. Haight, Dr. James M. Minor, John Blair Scribner and Peter R. Strong are no longer among us.

Augustus R. Macdonough
1880 Century Association Reports