Lawyer/Art Connoisseur
Centurion, 1881–1915
Born 20 August 1846 in New York (Manhattan), New York
Died 29 March 1915 in Washington, District of Columbia
Buried Church on the Hill Cemetery
, Lenox, Massachusetts
Proposed by Henry D. Sedgwick and J. Hampden Robb
Elected 2 April 1881 at age thirty-four
Archivist’s Note: Son of George Folsom
Century Memorial
George Winthrop Folsom, sprung from a distinguished colonial family, was born to wealth. He discharged with quiet conscientiousness the duties, small and great, of his position. As the owner of an estate at Lenox where he resided, he took part in the affairs of the town and the Episcopal church, even as in New York he had been a faithful manager of the House of Refuge. Trained to the law, circumstances made him the manager of estates, in which capacity he evinced the soundest judgment. This modest gentleman had also a gift for society and hospitality.
Henry Osborn Taylor
1916 Century Association Yearbook