Editor
Centurion, 1906–1944
Born 5 April 1875 in Painesville, Ohio
Died 2 August 1944 in Paris, France
Buried Neuilly-sur-Seine New Communal Cemetery
, Neuilly-sur-Seine, Île-de-France, France
Proposed by Edward S. Martin and Andrew V. S. Anthony
Elected 1 December 1906 at age thirty-one
Century Memorial
Thomas Bucklin Wells. [Born] 1875. Editor. For 31 years associated with Harper and Brothers, serving as editor-in-chief of the magazine, and literary adviser to the book department; though without prior business experience, he engineered the financial reorganization of his house when it was toppling toward a fall; pursuing a boyhood dream, he retired to Paris for his declining years, dying there peacefully during the occupation; a formative influence in the literature of the 1910’s and ’20’s; constant and helpful friend.
Geoffrey Parsons, Secretary
Annual Meeting Necrology, 11 January 1945