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Thomas C. Wood

Engineer

Centurion, 1901–1917

Full Name Thomas Clark Wood

Born 10 May 1850 in Utica, New York

Died 17 January 1917 in New York (Manhattan), New York

Buried Forest Hill Cemetery, Utica, New York

Proposed by Edward B. Coe and Charles E. Merrill

Elected 2 March 1901 at age fifty

Century Memorial

Thomas Clark Wood, a naval lieutenant, who had retired before the Spanish war, but then returned to duty. He did gallant service on the Gloucester, and was the first to raise the American flag on Porto Rico.

Henry Osborn Taylor
1918 Century Association Yearbook