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Henry B. Barnes

Full Name: Henry Burr Barnes

Publisher

Centurion, 1896–1911

Proposed by
John Sloane and Silas B. Brownell
born December 14, 1845
New York (Brooklyn), New York
died January 12, 1911
New York (Manhattan), New York
elected October 3, 1896
Age fifty
seconder of
Member portrait of Henry B. Barnes

Century Memorial

To-night The Century honors those who died last year. The first of these remembered names is that of Henry Burr Barnes, a metropolitan publisher from the year of his graduation at Yale in 1866. Quickly there followed him Alexander H. Vinton, Bishop of Western Massachusetts, a man of broad and kindly interests. Then came the sudden death of Commander Frank Marble, the son of our old Centurion Manton Marble, and the very type of the modern scientific naval officer. He commanded the forward turret of the Flagship New York at Santiago; he was naval attaché at the American Embassy in Tokyo during the Russian-Japanese War; from 1903 to 1905, he was Secretary to the General Board then engaged on the reorganization of the Navy; still more recently under his command the Vermont won the pennant for gunnery; and at the time of his death he was compiling the Digest of International Law Problems for the Navy.

Henry Osborn Taylor
1912 Century Association Yearbook

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