Member Directory,
1847 - 1922
Henry Leavitt Smith
Bookseller
Centurion, 1894–1918
Proposed by
Anson D. F. Randolph and Silas B. Brownell
Anson D. F. Randolph and Silas B. Brownell
born
February 19, 1848
New York (Manhattan), New York
New York (Manhattan), New York
died
September 7, 1918
Williamstown, Massachusetts
Williamstown, Massachusetts
elected
October 6, 1894
Age forty-six
Age forty-six
buried
Dartmouth College Cemetery,
Hanover, New Hampshire
Hanover, New Hampshire
proposer of
seconder of
Century Memorial
Henry Leavitt Smith was one of the incorporators of the firm of Charles Scribner’s Sons, of which he was for many years an active director; a man of marked business capacity, he managed for many years the foreign connections of the firm and its retail book department in New York. His strong religious tendencies took the active form of Presidency of the Bible Society and Secretary of the New York City mission, and he was always one of those constant and helpful worshippers in his own church through whose unostentatious service the work of religion in a great city community was carried on.
Alexander Dana Noyes
1919 Century Association Yearbook
