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Henry B. Barnes

Publisher

Centurion, 1896–1911

Full Name Henry Burr Barnes

Born 14 December 1845 in New York (Brooklyn), New York

Died 12 January 1911 in New York (Manhattan), New York

Buried Woodlawn Cemetery, Bronx, New York

Proposed by John Sloane and Silas B. Brownell

Elected 3 October 1896 at age fifty

Seconder of:

Century Memorial

To-night The Century honors those who died last year. The first of these remembered names is that of Henry Burr Barnes, a metropolitan publisher from the year of his graduation at Yale in 1866. Quickly there followed him Alexander H. Vinton, Bishop of Western Massachusetts, a man of broad and kindly interests. Then came the sudden death of Commander Frank Marble, the son of our old Centurion Manton Marble, and the very type of the modern scientific naval officer. He commanded the forward turret of the Flagship New York at Santiago; he was naval attaché at the American Embassy in Tokyo during the Russian-Japanese War; from 1903 to 1905, he was Secretary to the General Board then engaged on the reorganization of the Navy; still more recently under his command the Vermont won the pennant for gunnery; and at the time of his death he was compiling the Digest of International Law Problems for the Navy.

Henry Osborn Taylor
1912 Century Association Yearbook