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Elihu Chauncey

Lawyer

Centurion, 1883–1916

Born 17 August 1840 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Died 16 May 1916 in New York (Manhattan), New York

Buried Poughkeepsie Rural Cemetery, Poughkeepsie, New York

Proposed by Henry Codman Potter and Mr. Nash (may refer to <XREF-ID4993>John McL. Nash</XREF-ID4933> or Stephen P. Nash)

Elected 7 April 1883 at age forty-two

Century Memorial

Elihu Chauncey, a vestryman of Trinity Church, and eminent in the direction of church charities.

Henry Osborn Taylor
1917 Century Association Yearbook