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John C. Draper

Chemist/Surgeon

Centurion, 1872–1885

Full Name John Christopher Draper

Born 31 March 1835 in Christianville, Virginia

Died 20 December 1885 in New York (Manhattan), New York

Buried Woodlawn Cemetery, Bronx, New York

Proposed by William E. Curtis, Sanford R. Gifford, and Alexander S. Webb

Elected 5 October 1872 at age thirty-seven

Archivist’s Note: Brother of Henry Draper

Century Memorial

[T]he list of those deceased in 1885 presents the unusually small number of six. These are Stillman S. Conant, Charles Tracy, Commander Henry H. Gorringe, General Irvin McDowell, Professor John C. Draper, and Samuel Wetmore.

Augustus R. Macdonough
1886 Century Association Reports