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Burton Mansfield

Banker

Centurion, 1906–1932

Born 4 April 1856 in Hamden, Connecticut

Died 4 October 1932 in New Haven, Connecticut

Buried Evergreen Cemetery, New Haven, Connecticut

Proposed by Franklin B. Lord and George Dudley Seymour

Elected 3 November 1906 at age fifty

Archivist’s Note: Brother of Howard Mansfield

Century Memorial

Burton Mansfield, a well-known Centurion of Connecticut, won distinction alternately as lawyer, banker, public administrator and churchman. He never relinquished his law practice, even after being chosen president of various banks and industrial companies, and during the same period he served fourteen years as the state’s insurance commissioner. Probably, as with many other men of affairs, his interest in church councils and canonical law absorbed his personal activities equally with his business affiliations. He was said to have attended every general convention of the Episcopal organization from 1898 to the present year.

Alexander Dana Noyes
1933 Century Association Yearbook