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Francis Bond Swayne

Lawyer

Centurion, 1898–1928

Born 8 June 1850 in Columbus, Ohio

Died 18 September 1928 in New York (Manhattan), New York

Buried Trinity Church Cemetery and Mausoleum, Manhattan, New York

Proposed by D. Bryson Delavan and Andrew H. Smith

Elected 4 June 1898 at age forty-seven

Century Memorial

Francis Bond Swayne, brother and law partner of General Wager Swayne, was a Yale graduate of 1872 and had practiced in New York between 1895 and 1902, when he relinquished his professional and corporation activities. He had served for many years as vestryman of Trinity Church.

Alexander Dana Noyes
1929 Century Association Yearbook