Lawyer/Politician
Centurion, 1854–1877
Born 14 September 1826 in New York (Manhattan), New York
Died 19 October 1877 in Barrytown, New York
Buried Trinity Church Cemetery and Mausoleum
, Manhattan, New York
Proposed by Benjamin R. Winthrop
Elected 4 February 1854 at age twenty-seven
Archivist’s Note: Father of John Armstrong Chanler
Proposer of:
Century Memorial
The Club has lost by death during the year the following members: James W. Beekman, John Winthrop Chanler, Alpheus B. Crosby, Frederick Fawcett, Henry Peters Gray, William P. Lee, Marshall Pepoon, Edward Seymour, J. Butler Wright, Charles E. Milnor, William B. Ogden, and J. V. L. Pruyn. Most of these were old members of the Century, many of them eminent in the community and leaders in their respective walks of life, and several of them among the most loved of our associates.
Augustus R. Macdonough
1878 Century Association Reports
