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George Inness

Artist

Centurion, 1853–1890

Born 1 May 1825 in Newburgh, New York

Died 3 August 1894 in Bridge of Allan, Scotland

Buried Rosedale Cemetery, Orange, New Jersey

Proposed by Ogden Haggerty

Elected 5 February 1853 at age twenty-seven

Archivist’s Note: He ostensibly resigned sometime between 1855 and 1857 and was reinstated in April 1879 with a new set of proposers, Homer D. Martin and Charles H. Miller.