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Henry H. Gorringe

Full Name: Henry Honychurch Gorringe

U.S. Navy

Centurion, 1882–1885

Proposed by
Salem H. Wales and Augustus R. Macdonough
born August 11, 1841
Bridgetown, Barbados
died July 7, 1885
New York (Manhattan), New York
elected March 4, 1882
Age forty
buried Rockland Cemetery,
Sparkill, New York
Member portrait of Henry H. Gorringe
Member Photograph Albums Collection
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Archivist’s Notes

He transported the “Cleopatra’s Needle” obelisk in Central Park, a gift from Egypt, in 1879 and 1880.

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

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