Member Directory,
1847 - 1922
Alfred A. Whitman
Banker
Centurion, 1915–1930
Proposed by
William H. Thomson and Edmund B. Wilson
William H. Thomson and Edmund B. Wilson
born
July 8, 1864
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Cambridge, Massachusetts
died
September 4, 1930
At Sea
At Sea
elected
December 4, 1915
Age fifty-one
Age fifty-one
buried
Sleepy Hollow Cemetery,
Sleepy Hollow, New York
Sleepy Hollow, New York
Member Photograph Albums Collection
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Archivist’s Notes
He died of natural causes aboard a Clark Steamship Company liner en route from St. Anthony, Newfoundland, to New York.
Century Memorial
Alfred A. Whitman might have had no other life-story than that of other successful business men, had he not fallen in with Sir Wilfred Grenfell and become absorbingly interested in Grenfell’s work for missions and hospitals on the remote coast of Labrador. Whitman eventually assumed personal responsibility for providing the requisite supplies and construction plans for this mission work, a task which he supplemented by personal visit every year to the North-east coast.
Alexander Dana Noyes
1931 Century Association Yearbook
