Member Directory,
1847 - 1922
George C. Lay
Lawyer
Centurion, 1894–1934
Payson Merrill and William Bispham
New York (Manhattan), New York
Saint Paul, Minnesota
Age forty-three
Brooklyn, New York
Archivist’s Notes
Brother of Oliver I. Lay; uncle of Charles Downing Lay; great-uncle of Oliver Ingraham Lay
Century Memorial
George Cowles Lay practiced law in New York and St. Paul during sixty-three successive years; appearing before the Minnesota probate court only a year ago, at the ripe age of eighty-three. He was a man of avocations; his long practice of the law was varied by interest in music and history. In the neighborhoods where he lived, Lay was best known as helper of the unfortunate; a quest which friends described as his ruling passion. In the belief of his intimates, he would have come to be a widely-known philanthropist had he accumulated wealth, instead of using his modest surplus for his charities as he earned it.
Alexander Dana Noyes
1935 Century Association Yearbook
