Manufacturer
Centurion, 1920–1951
Born 20 August 1860 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Died 27 March 1951 in At Sea
Buried Park Lawn Cemetery
, Bennington, Vermont
Proposed by H. Galbraith Ward and Richard W. G. Welling
Elected 1 May 1920 at age fifty-nine
Archivist’s Note: He died of natural causes near Italy aboard the export liner MV Saturnia while en route from New York to Naples.
Century Memorial
Harry Baltz was born in Philadelphia in 1860, and graduated from Yale in 1882. He was elected to the Century in 1920. He says, of himself, after graduating from college: “I travelled abroad for a year and a half, spending three months in Paris, and four months in Rome, studying French, Italian and Spanish literature. On my return I entered the law office of Biddle and Ward in Philadelphia, and was admitted to the bar in 1886. Recurring conditions of eye-strain obliged me to give up my profession and go into business.”
He was a manufacturer for some years; and then he retired and continued his language studies—particularly the study of Dante, where he was an authority. He was a member of the Board of Directors of the Philharmonic-Symphony Society of New York, and former secretary of the old Italy-America Society. He was interested in Italy, Italians and music, and was a constant traveller: indeed, he died on board ship bound for Florence.
He was alert and spry, and carried himself well. He was always faultlessly dressed, and he wore his mustache carefully pomaded and a goatee. He was ninety years old when he died, but he did not look over sixty.
George W. Martin
1951/1952 Century Association Yearbook