Banker
Centurion, 1891–1902
Born 18 July 1831 in Darien, Georgia
Died 4 July 1902 in Newark, New Jersey
Buried Mount Pleasant Cemetery
, Newark, New Jersey
Proposed by Edmund C. Stedman and Thomas Moran
Elected 3 October 1891 at age sixty
Century Memorial
Cyrus Osborne Baker was one of the veterans of the army of business and finance in New York, though a resident of New Jersey. After experimenting in manufacturing and banking, he formed a brokerage firm, which he continued until his death at the age of seventy. He was a collector of pictures and rare books, and to him was dedicated the American Anthology of his fellow-Centurion, Mr. Stedman. He was, though a native of Georgia, one of the organizers of the Republican Party in New Jersey, and from the time of the famous Frémont campaign, its ardent and active supporter.
Edward Cary
1903 Century Association Yearbook