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Arthur Train

Full Name: Arthur Cheney Train

Lawyer

Centurion, 1907–1945

Proposed by
Robert Abbe and Charles C. Burlingham
born September 6, 1875
Boston, Massachusetts
died December 22, 1945
New York (Manhattan), New York
elected June 1, 1907
Age thirty-one
buried Fresh Pond Crematory and Columbarium,
Middle Village, New York
proposer of
seconder of
Member portrait of Arthur Train
Frederick Hill Meserve CollectionAlbum 2, Leaf 102
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Century Memorial

Arthur Cheney Train. [Born] 1875. Mr. Tutt.

One of the best literary craftsmen of our time and one of the most modest. He used to say he had no pretensions to be called a man of letters; but his Mr. Tutt is one of the great character creations of American literature—a character so real, so personal, so distinctive, so inextricably intertwined with Arthur Train himself that he became Mr. Tutt. This, all men know, as they know that he was President of the National Institute of Arts and Letters, and President and early guide of the Authors’ League of America. In the former capacity he was called upon to present the Institute’s gold medal posthumously awarded to our own beloved Stephen Vincent Benét. He had written a formal speech to be addressed to Mrs. Benét—Rosemary. But suddenly he departed from all formality and with a breaking voice said simply: “We give you this, dear Rosemary.” Mr. Tutt could not have done it better.

Source: Henry Allen Moe Papers, Mss.B.M722. Reproduced by permission of American Philosophical Society Library & Museum, Philadelphia

Henry Allen Moe
Henry Allen Moe Papers, 1945 Memorials

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