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Arthur B. Emmons

Lawyer

Centurion, 1893–1922

Full Name Arthur Brewster Emmons

Born 17 August 1850 in Quincy, Massachusetts

Died 12 July 1922 in Newport, Rhode Island

Buried Island Cemetery, Newport, Rhode Island

Proposed by George E. Waring Jr. and Wolcott Gibbs

Elected 1 April 1893 at age forty-two

Century Memorial

Arthur B. Emmons, for many years resident of Newport and member of the Century since 1893, had been trained to the law, supplementing his law-school education with courses at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the Politechniken at Stuttgart and the Universities of Heidelberg and Leipsic [Leipzig], from the latter of which he received in 1874 the doctor of philosophy degree. He had interested himself during recent years in social and educational affairs.

Alexander Dana Noyes
1923 Century Association Yearbook