Editor
Centurion, 1906–1909
Born 19 January 1864 in Monticello, New York
Died 6 May 1909 in New York (Manhattan), New York
Buried Brookside Cemetery
, Englewood, New Jersey
Proposed by William P. Trent and Rollo Ogden
Elected 3 November 1906 at age forty-two
Century Memorial
Hammond Lamont had been barely three years a member of The Century when at the age of forty-six [sic: forty-five] he was cut down unexpectedly and untimely by disease that had scarcely more than announced itself. Born in a near county of the state, he had the earliest education of a cultivated clergyman’s family life, graduated with the highest distinction from Harvard and with renown as a college journalist. Steeped in English literature and thoroughly trained to use his mother tongue subtly and effectively, he continued his college activities in a wider sphere. From his desk as a journalist in Seattle, he was called as instructor to Harvard, and thence to Brown, where he remained until he became here the managing editor of a foremost evening paper. Loyal to the truth, he was loyal to true men and was beloved by them; in educational matters his words were weighty and commanded attention; for the right as the righteous see it he battled without reserve. Called to various honorable professorships, he preferred his first and latest career. In these rooms he was gay, witty, congenial, at home among his kind.
William Milligan Sloane
1910 Century Association Yearbook
