Author
Centurion, 1901–1910
Born 19 May 1868 in New York (Manhattan), New York
Died 20 December 1910 in New York (Manhattan), New York
Buried Woodlawn Cemetery
, Bronx, New York
Proposed by Prescott H. Butler and Henry Freeman Walker
Elected 7 December 1901 at age thirty-three
Century Memorial
Paul Eve Stevenson was born in New York in 1864 and graduated from Columbia in 1890. His passion was the sea, and in 1894 he sailed to Calcutta on the ship Bangalore. In 1897 he sailed on the American ship Cyrus Wakefield, around the Horn to San Francisco. He took part in the Kaiser’s yacht race in 1905, crossing the ocean in the yacht Ailsa. At one time he belonged to the ship-designing firm of Gardner & Company. Mr. Stevenson put his experience into permanent form in three books: A Deep Sea Voyage, By Way of Cape Horn, and The Race for the Emperor’s Cup. He was a skilful musician and a musical critic of knowledge and discernment. His good will, kindly humor, and sparkling comment upon the ways of the world, made his companionship an inspiration not to be forgotten or replaced.
George William Knox
1911 Century Association Yearbook