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Hugh D. Auchincloss

Merchant

Centurion, 1896–1913

Full Name Hugh Dudley Auchincloss

Born 8 July 1858 in Newport, Rhode Island

Died 21 April 1913 in New York (Manhattan), New York

Buried Oak Lawn Cemetery, Fairfield, Connecticut

Proposed by Henry E. Howland, Charles C. Beaman, and Edward D. Page

Elected 1 February 1896 at age thirty-seven

Archivist’s Note: Brother of Edgar S. Auchincloss and John Winthrop Auchincloss; nephew of Hugh Auchincloss; uncle of Hugh Auchincloss, J. Howland Auchincloss, and Samuel Sloan Auchincloss; stepgrandfather of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

Seconder of:

Century Memorial

The names of those who died last year are many and impressive: George Henry Hall, a veteran and prolific figure painter; Joseph Lyman, a painter also, but of charming landscape; Benjamin Eli Smith, managing editor of the Century Dictionary, and editor and translator of other works; Frederic Baker, a man of large affairs; Preston B. Spring, an old New York merchant and grandson of the Rev. Dr. Gardiner Spring; Howard Lapsley, for many years a popular and respected figure in our social life; Francis Alexander Korbay, singer and composer, a man of many friends and formerly a much admired teacher of music in this city; Harry W. Desmond, editor of the Architectural Record, and a joint author of Stately Homes in America; James Mulford Townsend, a prominent member of the New York bar and an efficient lecturer in schools of law; Hugh Dudley Auchincloss, an honored merchant of this city; William Lanman Bull, banker, ex-president of the Stock Exchange, director in railroad and trust companies, and Vestryman of Grace Church.

Henry Osborn Taylor
1914 Century Association Yearbook