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Henry Fairfield Osborn

Professor/Paleontologist

Centurion, 1893–1932

Born 8 August 1857 in Fairfield, Connecticut

Died 6 November 1935 in Garrison, New York

Buried Saint Philip’s Church Cemetery, Garrison, New York

Proposed by Seth Low and William Milligan Sloane

Elected 4 February 1893 at age thirty-five

Archivist’s Note: Son of William H. Osborn; brother of William Church Osborn; grandson of Jonathan Sturges; father of A. Perry Osborn; uncle of Earl D. Osborn, Frederick Henry Osborn, and William Henry Osborn