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Malcolm Graham

Merchant

Centurion, 1886–1899

Born 27 July 1832 in Jersey City, New Jersey

Died 18 December 1899 in Seabright, New Jersey

Buried Woodlawn Cemetery, Bronx, New York

Proposed by James M. Varnum and Daniel M. Stimson

Elected 5 June 1886 at age fifty-three

Archivist’s Note: Second cousin of James L. Graham Jr.

Century Memorial

Malcolm Graham was one of the best known merchants of the city, prominent for forty-six years in active business as a member of the firm of Schuyler, Hartley & Graham, with a high reputation for honorable methods, which brought to the firm of which he was a member well-merited success. Although possessed of large wealth be shrank from display, was modest in his mode of life, and found his chief interest in church work and charities, to which he contributed with a most liberal hand. He had a cheerful, buoyant nature, delighted in social gatherings, and his memory is cherished by a large circle of friends.

Henry E. Howland
1900 Century Association Yearbook