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Morton Prince

Physician

Centurion, 1915–1929

Full Name Morton Henry Prince

Born 21 December 1854 in Boston, Massachusetts

Died 31 August 1929 in Boston, Massachusetts

Buried Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Massachusetts

Proposed by Charles L. Dana and Henry Rutgers Marshall

Elected 6 March 1915 at age sixty

Century Memorial

Morton Prince achieved about everything that a medical man can achieve in his line of work. He was attached to an important city hospital; he held a professorship in Harvard University; he was a recognized authority in the wider field of physical and mental science. On his seventieth birthday, he received a volume of original essays prepared by his professional colleagues, all of them containing tributes to his scientific activity and personal merits. Dr. Prince was a man of extraordinary intellectual activity and productiveness. His particular achievement lay in defining and establishing the existence of “Abnormal Psychology.” Prince was an intensely industrious man, with a range of interests that took him into social and even political life. Every one who came in contact with him bore witness to his attractive and pleasing personality.

Alexander Dana Noyes
1930 Century Association Yearbook