Clergyman/Professor of English
Centurion, 1882–1886
Born 31 December 1810 in Newburgh, New York
Died 17 October 1886 in Newburgh, New York
Buried Old Town Cemetery
, Newburgh, New York
Proposed by Not recorded
Elected 4 November 1882 at age seventy-one
Archivist’s Note: Brother of James C. Forsyth
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