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Silvanus W. Godon

Navy Officer

Centurion, 1872–1879

Full Name Silvanus William Godon

Born 18 June 1809 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Died 10 May 1879 in Blois, France

Buried Laurel Hill Cemetery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Proposed by George W. Cullum and John W. S. Gouley

Elected 4 May 1872 at age sixty-two

Century Memorial

Joseph E. Buckley [sic: Bulkley], Walter Brown, Alfred W. Craven, Edward F. Davidson, Jonathan Edgar, Admiral Godine, the Rev. Benjamin I. Haight, Dr. James M. Minor, John Blair Scribner and Peter R. Strong are no longer among us.

Augustus R. Macdonough
1880 Century Association Reports