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Adrian Iselin

Banker

Centurion, 1893–1935

Born 14 October 1846 in New York (Manhattan), New York

Died 29 January 1935 in New York (Manhattan), New York

Buried Woodlawn Cemetery, Bronx, New York

Proposed by Adrian Iselin and Frederick W. Whitridge

Elected 7 October 1893 at age forty-six

Archivist’s Note: Son of Adrian Iselin

Century Memorial

Adrian Iselin, who had reached the advanced age of eighty-eight and had been a Centurion during forty-two years, spent all his active business life in Wall Street, where for fifty years he was the head of the private banking firm which his father [Adrian Iselin] founded. Iselin was a cultured gentleman of ability and charm; in Wall Street he was distinguished for his uncompromising integrity. But his personal modesty was such that he scrupulously shunned every kind of publicity.

Alexander Dana Noyes
1936 Century Association Yearbook