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William J. Forbes

Merchant

Centurion, 1898–1921

Full Name William Jehiel Forbes

Born 19 July 1856 in Jersey City, New Jersey

Died 29 June 1921 in Chatham, New Jersey

Buried Oak Lawn Cemetery, Fairfield, Connecticut

Proposed by Nicholas Murray Butler and Richard S. Storrs

Elected 2 April 1898 at age forty-one

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