Physician
Centurion, 1894–1898
Born 18 December 1835 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Died 15 April 1898 in New York (Manhattan), New York
Buried Green-Wood Cemetery
, Brooklyn, New York
Proposed by William H. Draper and Charles W. Packard
Elected 2 June 1894 at age fifty-eight
Century Memorial
Dr. George Hoppin Humphreys was a well-known and successful physician, educated in Philadelphia, in Paris and Vienna. For forty years he was active in the practice of his profession in this city, and was held in high esteem by his professional brethren and the world at large. During the Civil War he was surgeon of the Ninth Regiment of New York Volunteers and received the highest commendation for his courage, devotion and skill in the discharge of his duty. He had a gentle, retiring nature, and was one of the large army of educated men who, though not prominently before the public, quietly and conscientiously perform their allotted work, receive in rich measure the regard of those with whom they are associated and are sadly missed when they are gone.
Henry E. Howland
1899 Century Association Yearbook