Merchant (Iron)/Philanthropist
Centurion, 1857–1886
Born 5 December 1814 in Perth Amboy, New Jersey
Died 23 February 1886 in New York (Manhattan), New York
Buried Trinity Church Cemetery and Mausoleum, Manhattan, New York
Proposed by Not recorded
Elected 5 November 1857 at age forty-two
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Century Memorial
[T]he list of those deceased includes 16 names, which, ranged in the order of seniority of membership, are those of Asher B. Durand, John H. Platt, D. Williamson Lee, Thomas B. Coddington, Henry J. Scudder, Charles S. Seyton, David Van Nostrand, James M. Redmond, Samuel J. Tilden, Chester A. Arthur, Charles Short, Alfred Wilkinson, James Kent, S. Oakley Vanderpoel, Austin Flint and John Forsyth. The average length of membership of those who compose this list was twenty-one years and four months.
Horace W. Robbins
1887 Century Association Reports
