Member Directory,
1847 - 1922
George Blagden
Banker/Broker
Centurion, 1905–1934
Proposed by
Wheeler H. Peckham and James J. Higginson
Wheeler H. Peckham and James J. Higginson
born
October 17, 1866
New York (Manhattan), New York
New York (Manhattan), New York
died
March 22, 1934
Augusta, Georgia
Augusta, Georgia
elected
June 3, 1905
Age thirty-eight
Age thirty-eight
buried
Mount Auburn Cemetery,
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Cambridge, Massachusetts
seconder of
Archivist’s Notes
Son of George Blagden
Century Memorial
George Blagden was another successful Wall Street man who directed the energies of his later life to the public interest. He was for many years on the board of St. Luke’s Hospital, treasurer of the Association for Improving the Condition of the Poor, and active director in many other philanthropies. It was lately the fashion, on the floor of the Seventy-third Congress, to hold up to execration men of wealth as heartless exploiters whose main concern was grinding the faces of the poor. It would be charitable to believe that the orators at Washington had never heard of the unostentatious social history of these New York business men.
Alexander Dana Noyes
1935 Century Association Yearbook
