Banker
Centurion, 1915–1930
Born 8 July 1864 in Cambridge, Massachusetts
Died 4 September 1930 in At Sea
Buried Sleepy Hollow Cemetery
, Sleepy Hollow, New York
Proposed by William H. Thomson and Edmund B. Wilson
Elected 4 December 1915 at age fifty-one
Archivist’s Note: He died of natural causes aboard a Clark Steamship Company liner en route from St. Anthony, Newfoundland, to New York.
Century Memorial
Alfred A. Whitman might have had no other life-story than that of other successful business men, had he not fallen in with Sir Wilfred Grenfell and become absorbingly interested in Grenfell’s work for missions and hospitals on the remote coast of Labrador. Whitman eventually assumed personal responsibility for providing the requisite supplies and construction plans for this mission work, a task which he supplemented by personal visit every year to the North-east coast.
Alexander Dana Noyes
1931 Century Association Yearbook
