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Gouverneur M. Wilkins

Gentleman/Diplomat

Centurion, 1858–1871

Full Name Gouverneur Morris Wilkins

Born 4 November 1799 in New York State

Died 7 February 1871 in New York (Manhattan), New York

Buried Westchester County, New York

Proposed by William Bayard Hoffman

Elected 6 March 1858 at age fifty-eight

Century Memorial

Howard Wainwright, Gouverneur Wilkins, Thomas Rossiter, Irving Graham, James Sanderson, and Edward Slosson, will meet with us no more. All of them were best known to the older members of the Club, and their attachment and services to it in the earlier days remain among its pleasantest memories.

Augustus R. Macdonough
1872 Century Association Reports