Merchant
Centurion, 1897–1915
Born 21 January 1840 in Rockford, Delaware
Died 22 April 1915 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Buried Wilmington and Brandywine Cemetery
, Wilmington, Delaware
Proposed by George Haven Putnam and Thomas B. Clarke
Elected 6 March 1897 at age fifty-seven
Century Memorial
Samuel Bancroft, Jr., amateur and collector of paintings, and a public-spirited citizen of Wilmington, Delaware, where he was devoted to the welfare of his city. He was an owner and manager of cotton mills, the chief proprietor of the Wilmington Every Evening, and at one time active in politics.
Henry Osborn Taylor
1916 Century Association Yearbook
