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Harry Thurston Peck

Professor

Centurion, 1893–1914

Born 24 November 1856 in Stamford, Connecticut

Died 23 March 1914 in Stamford, Connecticut

Buried Christ Church Cemetery, Greenwich, Connecticut

Proposed by Henry Drisler and Joseph W. Harper

Elected 3 June 1893 at age thirty-six

Century Memorial

Harry Thurston Peck, professor of Latin at Columbia University for some thirty years, was a scholar of ability and an industrious and talented writer. Whatever he wrote he made interesting, as readers of the Bookman know. He was a kind friend to those who sought his advice in study, or his aid in financial embarrassment. Their sympathies should be extended to the distress and clouding of his last years.

Henry Osborn Taylor
1915 Century Association Yearbook