Alexander H. Vinton

Full Name: Alexander Hamilton Vinton

Clergyman

Centurion, 1898–1911

Proposed by
George S. Greene and Henry Codman Potter

born March 30, 1852
New York (Brooklyn), New York

died January 18, 1911
Springfield, Massachusetts

elected December 3, 1898
Age forty-six

buried Swan Point Cemetery,
Providence, Rhode Island

Member portrait of Alexander H. Vinton — Frederick Hill Meserve CollectionAlbum 2, Leaf 109

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Archivist’s Notes

Nephew of George S. Greene, Alexander Hamilton Vinton, and Francis Vinton; cousin of Francis Vinton Greene, George S. Greene Jr., and Francis Laurens Vinton

Century Memorial

To-night The Century honors those who died last year. The first of these remembered names is that of Henry Burr Barnes, a metropolitan publisher from the year of his graduation at Yale in 1866. Quickly there followed him Alexander H. Vinton, Bishop of Western Massachusetts, a man of broad and kindly interests. Then came the sudden death of Commander Frank Marble, the son of our old Centurion Manton Marble, and the very type of the modern scientific naval officer. He commanded the forward turret of the Flagship New York at Santiago; he was naval attaché at the American Embassy in Tokyo during the Russian-Japanese War; from 1903 to 1905, he was Secretary to the General Board then engaged on the reorganization of the Navy; still more recently under his command the Vermont won the pennant for gunnery; and at the time of his death he was compiling the Digest of International Law Problems for the Navy.

Henry Osborn Taylor
1912 Century Association Yearbook

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