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Hamlin Garland

Novelist

Centurion, 1919–1935

Born 14 September 1860 in West Salem, Wisconsin

Died 4 March 1940 in Los Angeles (Hollywood), California

Buried Neshonoc Cemetery, West Salem, Wisconsin

Proposed by William Dean Howells and Brander Matthews

Elected 1 November 1919 at age fifty-nine