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Alexander T. Stewart

Merchant (Dry Goods)/Retailer

Centurion, 1864–1876

Full Name Alexander Turney Stewart

Born 12 October 1803 in Lisburn, Northern Ireland

Died 10 April 1876 in New York (Manhattan), New York

Buried Cathedral of the Incarnation, Garden City, New York

Proposed by George Bancroft and Augustus R. Macdonough

Elected 4 June 1864 at age sixty

Century Memorial

The list of the members deceased during the year, includes the names of Pierre M. Irving, Alexander T. Stewart, Robert Kelly Weeks, J. Lorimer Graham, Marshal Lefferts, Augustus F. Smith, L. DeForest Woodruff, George B. Dorr, and George Palen.

Augustus R. Macdonough
1877 Century Association Reports