Member Directory,
1847 - 1922
Charles E. Sprague
Banker, President Union Dime Savings Bank
Centurion, 1900–1912
Proposed by
George Alexander and E. B. Van Winkle
George Alexander and E. B. Van Winkle
born
October 9, 1842
Nassau, New York
Nassau, New York
died
March 21, 1912
New York (Manhattan), New York
New York (Manhattan), New York
elected
December 1, 1900
Age fifty-eight
Age fifty-eight
buried
Flushing Cemetery,
Flushing, New York
Flushing, New York
Century Memorial
We are always interested in what the youthful heroes of the Civil War did with the long lives that awaited some of them. Our fellow member, Charles Ezra Sprague, who died as president of the Union Dime Savings Bank, was severely wounded at Gettysburg, and serving through the war, finished as brevet colonel of New York Volunteers. A college man, with a decided taste for figures and for business, he entered the Union Dime Savings Bank in 1870, and became its president in 1892. He was the author of many improvements in bank accounting, and of books upon the same topic.
Henry Osborn Taylor
1913 Century Association Yearbook
