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H. G. De Forest

Full Name: Henry Grant De Forest

Lawyer

Centurion, 1866–1889

Proposed by
John A. Weekes
born August 3, 1820
New York (Manhattan), New York
died November 18, 1889
Cold Spring Harbor, New York
elected April 7, 1866
Age forty-five
buried Green-Wood Cemetery,
Brooklyn, New York
seconder of
Member portrait of H. G. De Forest

Archivist’s Notes

Father of Henry W. de Forest, Lockwood de Forest, and Robert W. de Forest; uncle of George B. de Forest, Daniel D. Lord, George de Forest Lord, James Couper Lord, and L. DeF. Woodruff; grandfather of Alfred V. de Forest and Johnston de Forest

Century Memorial

Henry G. De Forest, who came of a family well known and respected in this city, was a lawyer of high standing and large practice in his profession, and was held in universal esteem. The important interests confided to his care in the later years of his life withdrew him from the active practice of the law, and more recently failing health secluded him from the general society of his friends; but he is remembered by them as a cultivated and public-spirited gentleman, of a type that is an honor to the Century.

Henry E. Howland
1890 Century Association Yearbook

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