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Robert L. Stuart

Manufacturer (Sugar Refinery)/Philanthropist

Centurion, 1859–1882

Full Name Robert Leighton Stuart

Born 21 July 1806 in New York (Manhattan), New York

Died 12 December 1882 in New York (Manhattan), New York

Buried Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, New York

Proposed by J. Howard Wainwright

Elected 4 June 1859 at age fifty-two

Century Memorial

[T]he list of those deceased includes 12 names, those of the Rev. Henry W. Bellows, Gen’l J. G. Barnard, Henry Draper, Jonathan Edwards, Fred’k E. Gibert, Alexander L. Holley, Thos. Le Clear, Dr. Erskine Mason, Clarkson N. Potter, Dr. James R. Wood, Robert L. Stuart and Edgar S. Van Winkle.

Augustus R. Macdonough
1883 Century Association Reports