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William C. Sturgis

Botanist

Centurion, 1899–1915

Full Name William Codman Sturgis

Born 15 November 1862 in Boston, Massachusetts

Died 29 September 1942 in New York (Manhattan), New York

Buried Fresh Pond Crematory and Columbarium, Middle Village, New York

Proposed by Arthur T. Hadley and Charles Comfort Tiffany

Elected 6 May 1899 at age thirty-six