Physician
Centurion, 1894–1945
Born 11 June 1859 in New York (Manhattan), New York
Died 15 November 1945 in New York (Manhattan), New York
Buried Fresh Pond Crematory and Columbarium
, Middle Village, New York
Proposed by James West Roosevelt and T. Mitchell Prudden
Elected 7 April 1894 at age thirty-four
Archivist’s Note: Father of Rowland Godfrey Freeman Jr.
Century Memorial
Rowland Godfrey Freeman. [Born] 1859. Physician.
When you drink “certified milk,” drink to the memory of Dr. Freeman as you drink it for your own health’s sake; for he led the campaign for milk purification which resulted in certified milk. A pediatrician, later to be president of the American Pediatric Society, he saw early in his career that the health of babies was dependent on a pure milk supply; and he soon became a leader in protecting New York from contaminated milk. He was a Centurion for fifty-one years. After his retirement from practice the Century was his second home. He was one of our most constant and expert billiard players; and he never missed a New Year’s Eve party at the Club.
Dr. Freeman belonged to a generation of Centurions sorely missed when they leave us; for they knew the generation that knew the founders of the Club. There are five of them on this year’s memorial roll, each with more-than a half-century of membership.
Source: Henry Allen Moe Papers, Mss.B.M722. Reproduced by permission of American Philosophical Society Library & Museum, Philadelphia
Henry Allen Moe
Henry Allen Moe Papers, 1945 Memorials