Editor/Literary Agent
Centurion, 1889–1908
Born 6 June 1859 in New York (Manhattan), New York
Died 16 September 1908 in New York (Queens), New York
Buried Woodlawn Cemetery
, Bronx, New York
Proposed by Charles Collins, John R. G. Hassard, and Richard Watson Gilder
Elected 4 May 1889 at age twenty-nine
Archivist’s Note: Son of Edmund Clarence Stedman
Proposer of:
Seconder of:
Century Memorial
Arthur Griffin Stedman was forty-nine at death and had been a Centurion for nineteen years. A graduate of Yale and the son of a foremost man of letters, he early became a trusted collaborator with his famous sire, [Edmund Clarence Stedman,] whom he survived but a few short months. He was an editor, reviewer, and magazine writer, with a gift for poetry which he exercised but little, though the short threnody signed by himself and his niece, which was published a few days after the loss of his father, expresses a pathos and a depth of sorrow almost heartrending. His life was spent among books and in literary association; his spirit was storm-tossed often, but with kindred souls his communion was gentle, affectionate, and sympathetic.
William Milligan Sloane
1909 Century Association Yearbook