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Benjamin W. Bonney

Judge

Centurion, 1857–1868

Full Name Benjamin West Bonney

Born 2 February 1802 in Littleton, New Hampshire

Died 18 August 1868 in New York (Manhattan), New York

Buried Woodlawn Cemetery, Bronx, New York

Proposed by Edward Slosson and Richard Goodman

Elected 7 February 1857 at age fifty-five

Century Memorial

That current brings, but it also bears away. Down its mournful ebb have gone during the past year Bonney, the accomplished and upright jurist—Fuller, with his steady grasp of affairs, his clear honesty, and warm heart—the cultivated force and rich and vigorous personality of Leutze—and Cozzens, for whom as a patron of Art, sure discernment inspired princely liberality, and for whom, as a man, friendship laments that the days he knew so well how to enrich with all its delights, should have closed so early and so sadly.

Augustus R. Macdonough
Annual Meeting Minutes, 9 January 1869