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I. Wyman Drummond

Chemist

Centurion, 1892–1933

Full Name Isaac Wyman Drummond

Born 19 June 1855 in Roxbury, Massachusetts

Died 15 April 1933 in New York (Manhattan), New York

Buried Woodlawn Cemetery, Bronx, New York

Proposed by J. Howard Van Amringe and John Q. A. Ward

Elected 7 May 1892 at age thirty-six

Century Memorial

In what are nowadays described as the old days of the Century, Isaac Wyman Drummond was a familiar figure. At the dining-table his invariable place was with that junto of convivial spirits, George Greene, Dr. Austin Flint and Beverly Chew, whose presence always gave to the Club a flavor of its own. In the billiard-room Dr. Drummond, who was a skilful player, regularly matched cues in the straight game with Dr. Flint or else engaged in “cow-boy pool” with Greene, Theodore Cooper, Charles R. Miller and Dr. Daniel Stimson. Merely to recite the names is to call up a vision of the Club-house past. Like his affiliates of dining-room and billiard-table, Drummond was in everyday life a citizen of personal distinction and original avocations. In his case the hobbies were chemistry and artistic study. In the one field he was a pupil of Charles F. Chandler, and was full of vivid memories of that master; in the other, his unusual scope of interest was indicated by the title which he earned, of research associate in antique jade and amber for the American Museum.

Alexander Dana Noyes
1934 Century Association Yearbook