S. S. Conant

Full Name: Samuel Stillman Conant

Editor

Centurion, 1866–1885

Proposed by
Augustus R. Macdonough, Daniel Huntington, and Thomas Hicks

born December 11, 1831
Waterville, Maine

died after 22 January 1885
Unknown

elected May 5, 1866
Age thirty-four

buried Unknown (disappeared)

proposer of

seconder of

Member portrait of S. S. Conant — Member Photograph Albums CollectionAlbum 3, Leaf 80

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Archivist’s Notes

His unexplained disappearance in January 1885 was widely covered in the press; his last known sighting was on 22 January of that year. There was speculation that some skeletal remains discovered five years later in the dunes of the Rockaways, Queens, may have been his.

Century Memorial

From behind the veil, perhaps never to be lifted, which shrouds his passing away, the figure of Conant reappears to memory—the hours return brightened by his manly, kindly presence—the friendly tie seems for a moment knit again, which was to be so suddenly, strangely parted.

Augustus R. Macdonough
1886 Century Association Reports

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