Member Directory,
1847 - 1922
Joseph Hamblen Sears
Editor
Centurion, 1895–1946
Will H. Low and John Kendrick Bangs
Boston, Massachusetts
Kingsport, Tennessee
Age thirty
Century Memorial
Joseph Hamblen Sears. [Born] 1865. Publisher.
Sears was a publisher for fifty years, beginning with the House of Harper, later President of Appleton’s and finally the head of his own Sears publishing company.
He went up to Harvard from the Cape, the son of a sea captain, well over six feet and handsome beyond his share. He was Captain of the Harvard football team of 1889 and a hero of the campus. But his winning personality was not spoiled by his successes at Harvard or elsewhere and he retained his exuberance of spirit and his gaiety of humor almost to the end of his eighty-one years [sic: eighty years]—[well more than] half of which, happily for him and for us, were Centurian years.
Source: Henry Allen Moe Papers, Mss.B.M722. Reproduced by permission of American Philosophical Society Library & Museum, Philadelphia
Henry Allen Moe
Henry Allen Moe Papers, 1946 Memorials
