Member Directory,
1847 - 1922
John H. Platt
Lawyer
Centurion, 1852–1886
Proposed by
Edward Slosson
Edward Slosson
born
November 19, 1827
Rhinebeck, New York
Rhinebeck, New York
died
May 21, 1886
South Manchester, Connecticut
South Manchester, Connecticut
elected
April 3, 1852
Age twenty-four
Age twenty-four
buried
Rhinebeck Cemetery,
Rhinebeck, New York
Rhinebeck, New York
proposer of
seconder of
Member Photograph Albums Collection
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Archivist’s Notes
Secretary of the Century Association, 1886. Father of Charles A. Platt; grandfather of Geoffrey Platt, Roger Platt, and William Platt
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
