Member Directory,
1847 - 1922
James R. Steers
Construction/Civil Engineer
Centurion, 1911–1917
Proposed by
Everett P. Wheeler and John Huston Finley
Everett P. Wheeler and John Huston Finley
born
January 7, 1833
New York (Manhattan), New York
New York (Manhattan), New York
died
November 18, 1917
New York (Brooklyn), New York
New York (Brooklyn), New York
elected
June 3, 1911
Age seventy-eight
Age seventy-eight
buried
Green-Wood Cemetery,
Brooklyn, New York
Brooklyn, New York
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Century Memorial
James R. Steers, a member of an old ship-building family, himself a lover of the sea, was for a number of years a practising lawyer at our Bar. He was a member of the first graduating class of 1853 in the College of the City of New York, then called the New York Free Academy. He belonged to the Seventh Regiment in the Civil War, and made one of the detachment detailed to guard the remains of President Lincoln, lying in state at the City Hall. In later life a traveller, and always a man of kindly disposition and gentle manner.
Henry Osborn Taylor
1918 Century Association Yearbook
