Merchant (Dry Goods/Textiles)
Centurion, 1879–1890
Born 11 January 1818 in New York (Manhattan), New York
Died 18 June 1890 in New Canaan, Connecticut
Buried Woodlawn Cemetery
, Bronx, New York
Proposed by Jacob D. Vermilye and John T. Johnston
Elected 1 February 1879 at age sixty-one
Archivist’s Note: Uncle of Edgar S. Auchincloss, Hugh D. Auchincloss, and John Winthrop Auchincloss; stepgrandfather of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
Century Memorial
Hugh Auchincloss was an honorable merchant, born in this city in 1817 [sic], and during all his life, until 1885, engaged in business here.
Henry E. Howland
1891 Century Association Yearbook
