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J. Sinclair Armstrong

Publisher

Centurion, 1912–1929

Full Name James Sinclair Armstrong

Born 26 December 1856 in New York (Manhattan), New York

Died 16 August 1929 in New York (Manhattan), New York

Buried Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, New York

Proposed by George Haven Putnam and Henry B. Dominick

Elected 1 June 1912 at age fifty-five

Century Memorial

James Sinclair Armstrong was one of the older New York publishers. He learned the business in the old firm of Scribner, Armstrong & Company as long ago as 1875, conducting an independent house after 1879.

Alexander Dana Noyes
1930 Century Association Yearbook