Gustav Schwab

Full Name: Gustav Friedrich Schwab

Merchant

Centurion, 1880–1888

Proposed by
Roswell D. Hitchcock and John E. Parsons

born November 23, 1822
Stuttgart, Germany

died August 21, 1888
New York (Bronx), New York

elected October 2, 1880
Age fifty-seven

buried Woodlawn Cemetery,
Bronx, New York

Member portrait of Gustav Schwab — Member Photograph Albums CollectionAlbum 4 & 5, Leaf 15

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Archivist’s Notes

Father of Benjamin William Schwab, Gustav H. Schwab, Hermann C. Schwab, L. Henry Schwab, and John C. Schwab

Century Memorial

Dr. Cornelius R. Agnew, Admiral Charles H. Baldwin, Joseph N. Balestier, William Dorsheimer, Joseph W. Drexel, Horace Fairbanks, George H. Forster, Gen. Quincy A. Gillmore, John R. G. Hazard [sic: Hassard], Richard W. Hubbard, Thomas McElrath, Col. Walter McFarland, T. Bailey Myers, Henry E. Pierrepont, Frederick A. Potts, Prof. Robert R. Raymond, Bernard Roelker, Dr. Thomas T. Sabine, Mahlon D. Sands, Dr. Henry B. Sands, Gustav Schwab.

The Club has seldom been called upon to deplore the loss of so many distinguished and valuable members in one year.

Henry E. Howland
1889 Century Association Reports

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