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Robert B. Minturn

Full Name: Robert Bowne Minturn

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Centurion, 1862–1889

born February 21, 1836
New York (Manhattan), New York
died December 15, 1889
New York (Manhattan), New York
elected May 3, 1862
Age twenty-six
proposer of
Member portrait of Robert B. Minturn
Member Photograph Albums CollectionAlbum 2, Leaf 62
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Archivist’s Notes

Treasurer of the Century Association, 1885. He ostensibly resigned in 1868 and was reinstated in December 1874 with a new set of proposers, William Cullen Bryant and Francis A. Stout. Father of Robert Shaw Minturn; brother-in-law of Mahlon D. Sands; father-in-law of Henry Dwight Sedgwick Jr. and Isaac Newton Phelps Stokes; grandfather of Francis Minturn Sedgwick.

Century Memorial

Robert B. Minturn, for a time the Treasurer of the Club, always maintained the high character inherited from a father well known and honored as one of New York’s most distinguished merchants, and he was always regarded as one of our most valued members.

Henry E. Howland
1890 Century Association Yearbook

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