Member Directory,
1847 - 1922
James Kent
Army Officer/Author
Centurion, 1873–1886
Proposed by
Augustus R. Macdonough and Jonathan Edwards
Augustus R. Macdonough and Jonathan Edwards
born
September 21, 1830
New York (Manhattan), New York
New York (Manhattan), New York
died
November 29, 1886
Fishkill, New York
Fishkill, New York
elected
May 3, 1873
Age forty-two
Age forty-two
buried
Saint Luke’s Church Cemetery,
Beacon, New York
Beacon, New York
proposer of
Archivist’s Notes
Son of William Kent
Century Memorial
[T]he list of those deceased includes 16 names, which, ranged in the order of seniority of membership, are those of Asher B. Durand, John H. Platt, D. Williamson Lee, Thomas B. Coddington, Henry J. Scudder, Charles S. Seyton, David Van Nostrand, James M. Redmond, Samuel J. Tilden, Chester A. Arthur, Charles Short, Alfred Wilkinson, James Kent, S. Oakley Vanderpoel, Austin Flint and John Forsyth. The average length of membership of those who compose this list was twenty-one years and four months.
Horace W. Robbins
1887 Century Association Reports
