Publisher
Centurion, 1908–1921
Born 10 August 1847 in New York (Manhattan), New York
Died 11 November 1921 in Bellows Falls, Vermont
Buried Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, New York
Proposed by Richard Watson Gilder and Charles Scribner
Elected 4 April 1908 at age sixty
Century Memorial
Bleecker Van Wagenen, for thirty-three years a member of the publishing house of Dodd, Mead & Co., was an active participant in the literary activities of the house, though chiefly on the financial side. In his long residence in the New Jersey suburbs he was associated actively in charitable work.
Alexander Dana Noyes
1922 Century Association Yearbook