Edward H. Peaslee

Few faces were more familiar at the Century dinner-table than that of Edward Henry Peaslee. He was one of those personalities whom acquaintances always associated far less closely with the busy outside world than with the Century; yet his outside career had been one of achievement. In the Club he served in numerous places of responsibility. Notably at the head of the Admissions Committee, his wide acquaintance and his seriously genial manner smoothed the way of that hard-working body.

Dr. Peaslee’s professional career was in one respect unusual. Physicians have often enough abandoned their practice to embark in ordinary business pursuits; rather frequently, however, for the reason of indifferent success in medicine and with the result of indifferent success in business. Peaslee had cut a very respectable figure in the medical and surgical profession, his standing in which was recognized by appointment twice to the City’s Board of Education. Yet when, after fifteen years of professional practice, he shifted his activities to the not very closely affiliated field of banking, in that field also his capacity met with such recognition that in due course he became president of one national bank, vice-president of another, and director in still other financial organizations.

Alexander Dana Noyes
1931 Century Association Yearbook