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William Bayard Hoffman

Banker

Centurion, 1851–1880

Born 4 March 1817 in Westchester County, New York

Died 20 August 1880 in Newport, Rhode Island

Buried Woodlawn Cemetery, Bronx, New York

Proposed by James C. Parker

Elected 4 January 1851 at age thirty-three

Archivist’s Note: He ostensibly resigned sometime between 1860 and 1864 and was reinstated in December 1875 with a new set of proposers, Augustus R. Macdonough and William J. Hoppin.

Century Memorial

The list of the latter [deceased members] contains the names of the Rev. Drs. Adams, Osgood and Chapin, besides those of Elliot C. Cowdin, William E. Curtis, Dudley Field, William B. Hoffman, Richard E. Mount, Albert J. Meyer, Charles D. Gambrill, Sanford R. Gifford, Marshall O. Roberts and R. D. Nesmith.

Augustus R. Macdonough
1881 Century Association Reports