Professor of Engineering
Centurion, 1865–1877
Born 1 June 1835 in Fort Preble, Maine
Died 6 October 1879 in Leadville, Colorado
Buried Swan Point Cemetery, Providence, Rhode Island
Proposed by George Templeton Strong
Elected 7 October 1865 at age thirty
Archivist’s Note: Nephew of Alexander Hamilton Vinton and Francis Vinton; cousin of Francis Vinton Greene, George S. Greene Jr., and Alexander H. Vinton