Member Directory,
1847 - 1922
John Forsyth
Clergyman/Professor of English
Centurion, 1882–1886
Proposed by
Not recorded
Not recorded
born
December 31, 1810
Newburgh, New York
Newburgh, New York
died
October 17, 1886
Newburgh, New York
Newburgh, New York
elected
November 4, 1882
Age seventy-one
Age seventy-one
buried
Old Town Cemetery,
Newburgh, New York
Newburgh, New York
Archivist’s Notes
Brother of James C. Forsyth
Century Memorial
[T]he list of those deceased includes 16 names, which, ranged in the order of seniority of membership, are those of Asher B. Durand, John H. Platt, D. Williamson Lee, Thomas B. Coddington, Henry J. Scudder, Charles S. Seyton, David Van Nostrand, James M. Redmond, Samuel J. Tilden, Chester A. Arthur, Charles Short, Alfred Wilkinson, James Kent, S. Oakley Vanderpoel, Austin Flint and John Forsyth. The average length of membership of those who compose this list was twenty-one years and four months.
Horace W. Robbins
1887 Century Association Reports