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George Palmer Putnam

Publisher/Author

Centurion, 1921–1932

Born 7 September 1887 in Rye, New York

Died 5 January 1950 in Trona, California

Buried Chapel Of The Pines Crematory, Los Angeles, California

Proposed by Frederick Palmer and Fred DeWitt Wells

Elected 5 November 1921 at age thirty-four

Archivist’s Note: Nephew of George Haven Putnam and Herbert Putnam; grandson of George P. Putnam; husband of (nonmember) Amelia Earhart