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W. M. Gillespie

Professor of Civil Engineering

Centurion, 1859–1868

Full Name William Mitchell Gillespie

Born 15 April 1816 in New York (Manhattan), New York

Died 1 January 1868 in New York (Manhattan), New York

Buried Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, New York

Proposed by James Renwick

Elected 1 October 1859 at age forty-three

Seconder of:

Century Memorial

Nor is the loss which science and education deplore in Gillespie unshared by us, who shall no soon forget the quick observation and quaint but gentle humor which made him always so welcome a companion.

Augustus R. Macdonough
Annual Meeting Minutes, 11 January 1868