John C. Schwab

Full Name: John Christopher Schwab

Professor

Centurion, 1892–1916

Proposed by
Henry W. Farnam, Charles Comfort Tiffany, and Henry Metcalfe

born April 1, 1865
New York (Manhattan), New York

died January 12, 1916
New Haven, Connecticut

elected June 4, 1892
Age twenty-seven

buried Grove Street Cemetery,
New Haven, Connecticut

seconder of

Anson Phelps Stokes

Member portrait of John C. Schwab — Member Photograph Albums CollectionAlbum 7, Leaf 50

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Archivist’s Notes

Son of Gustav Schwab; brother of Benjamin William Schwab, Gustav H. Schwab, Hermann C. Schwab, and L. Henry Schwab

Century Memorial

John Christopher Schwab, the son of Gustav Schwab, was Librarian at Yale. He graduated there in ’86, became an instructor, and then Professor of Political Economy, from which position he passed to the headship of the university library. He was also an editor of the Yale Review, and the author of a financial history of The Confederate States of America and other works.

Henry Osborn Taylor
1917 Century Association Yearbook

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