Daniel M. Stimson

Nowadays we do not have to rely altogether on personal recollection of these older-time Centurions. The celebrated moving picture, which at Twelfth Nights and Anniversaries brings back to us the genial group encountering one another in the club-rooms, no longer contains any of our living members. But along with the others and as long as the film and the Century endure, Dr. Daniel MacMartin Stimson will continue to make his smiling entrance into the reading-room, draw up to Elliot and Van Amringe and George Greene, and give his order for something warm and stimulating. Nobody in the Club of those older days was more widely known and liked than Dr. Stimson, no one more full of good stories, no one more impregnated with the social instinct. Like many another figure of the period, he was an institution of the Club, but quite in his own way; whether in his nightly attendance at the billiard room, beginning with the old four-table days in 15th Street, or when leading the song on New Year’s Eve, or even when acting as physician in ordinary to the Century’s old “engineer crowd.” Dr. Stimson’s charm as host at the frequent social gatherings in his home, his consulting service at half a dozen New York hospitals, his loyal work as surgeon to the old Seventh Regiment, were aspects of his every-day life. The Century companionship supplemented all of them.

Alexander Dana Noyes
1923 Century Association Yearbook