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Myles Standish

Lawyer

Centurion, 1886–1915

Born 16 August 1847 in New Bedford, Massachusetts

Died 30 June 1915 in New York (Manhattan), New York

Buried Rural Cemetery, New Bedford, Massachusetts

Proposed by Cornelius N. Bliss and George W. Dillaway

Elected 1 May 1886 at age thirty-eight

Century Memorial

Myles Standish, eighth in the direct line of descent from the Pilgrim soldier. Dignified and courtly in manner, he was a man of strict social ideals and spotless character.

Henry Osborn Taylor
1916 Century Association Yearbook