Lawyer
Centurion, 1866–1889
Born 3 August 1820 in New York (Manhattan), New York
Died 18 November 1889 in Cold Spring Harbor, New York
Buried Green-Wood Cemetery
, Brooklyn, New York
Proposed by John A. Weekes
Elected 7 April 1866 at age forty-five
Archivist’s Note: Father of Henry W. de Forest, Lockwood de Forest, and Robert W. de Forest; uncle of George B. de Forest, Daniel D. Lord, George de Forest Lord, James Couper Lord, and L. DeF. Woodruff; grandfather of Alfred V. de Forest and Johnston de Forest
Seconder of:
Century Memorial
Henry G. De Forest, who came of a family well known and respected in this city, was a lawyer of high standing and large practice in his profession, and was held in universal esteem. The important interests confided to his care in the later years of his life withdrew him from the active practice of the law, and more recently failing health secluded him from the general society of his friends; but he is remembered by them as a cultivated and public-spirited gentleman, of a type that is an honor to the Century.
Henry E. Howland
1890 Century Association Yearbook