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James Sandford Greves

Lawyer

Centurion, 1895–1922

Born 17 October 1838 in Marshall, Michigan

Died 20 August 1922 in New York (Manhattan), New York

Buried Woodlawn Cemetery, Bronx, New York

Proposed by William P. Chambers and Silas B. Brownell

Elected 4 May 1895 at age fifty-six

Century Memorial

James Sanford [Sandford] Greves was one of the Club’s three or four remaining veterans of the Civil War. He had been a member of the New York bar during more than sixty years.

Alexander Dana Noyes
1923 Century Association Yearbook