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William Henry P. Phyfe

Litterateur

Centurion, 1892–1915

Full Name William Henry Pinkney Phyfe

Born 13 June 1855 in New York (Manhattan), New York

Died 7 March 1915 in New York (Manhattan), New York

Buried Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, Sleepy Hollow, New York

Proposed by Charles T. Barney and Frederick J. De Peyster

Elected 3 December 1892 at age thirty-seven

Century Memorial

There was William Henry Pinkney Phyfe, the painstaking compiler of works on orthography and pronunciation.

Henry Osborn Taylor
1916 Century Association Yearbook