Member Directory,
1847 - 1922
Edwin C. Sturges
Banker
Centurion, 1889–1900
Proposed by
Thomas Moran and William Conant Church
Thomas Moran and William Conant Church
born
September 14, 1837
New York (Manhattan), New York
New York (Manhattan), New York
died
February 16, 1900
New York (Manhattan), New York
New York (Manhattan), New York
elected
November 2, 1889
Age fifty-two
Age fifty-two
buried
Oak Lawn Cemetery,
Fairfield, Connecticut
Fairfield, Connecticut
Century Memorial
Edwin C. Sturges was descended from a family noted in the business life of New York, and held, himself, an honored position in the same circles. He was for many years a director in the Continental National Bank, and was entrusted with important responsibilities as a trustee of several large estates, which he managed with marked fidelity and skill. He served with distinction as an officer in the Civil War, and fulfilled all his duties as a man and as a citizen so completely that only his modesty prevented his receiving the prominence he deserved.
“On their own merits modest men are dumb,”
but all who knew him would bear glad testimony to those which he possessed.
Henry E. Howland
1901 Century Association Yearbook
