Member Directory,
1847 - 1922
Thomas Bucklin Wells
Editor
Centurion, 1906–1944
Proposed by
Edward S. Martin and Andrew V. S. Anthony
Edward S. Martin and Andrew V. S. Anthony
born
April 5, 1875
Painesville, Ohio
Painesville, Ohio
died
August 2, 1944
Paris, France
Paris, France
elected
December 1, 1906
Age thirty-one
Age thirty-one
buried
Neuilly-sur-Seine New Communal Cemetery,
Neuilly-sur-Seine, Île-de-France, France
Neuilly-sur-Seine, Île-de-France, France
Century Memorial
Thomas Bucklin Wells. [Born] 1875. Editor. For 31 years associated with Harper and Brothers, serving as editor-in-chief of the magazine, and literary adviser to the book department; though without prior business experience, he engineered the financial reorganization of his house when it was toppling toward a fall; pursuing a boyhood dream, he retired to Paris for his declining years, dying there peacefully during the occupation; a formative influence in the literature of the 1910’s and ’20’s; constant and helpful friend.
Geoffrey Parsons, Secretary
Annual Meeting Necrology, 11 January 1945
