Lawyer
Centurion, 1908–1914
Born 15 February 1839 in Elizabethtown, New York
Died 7 October 1914 in Yonkers, New York
Buried Riverside Cemetery
, Elizabethtown, New York
Proposed by Francis Lynde Stetson and Charles Wisner
Elected 5 December 1908 at age sixty-nine
Archivist’s Note: Father of Augustus N. Hand; uncle of Learned Hand
Century Memorial
Richard Lockhart Hand, a member of an eminent legal family, was through a long life honorably identified with the place of his birth, Elizabethtown, N. Y. Editor of the local paper, leading lawyer and honored citizen of his community, beyond its boundaries he was active in many organized movements helpful to his fellow-men. Commissioner of the State Board of Charities, Commissioner of State Prisons, Vice-President of the Lake Champlain Association, member of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, the National Child Labor Commission, the Civic Service Reform League,—these names indicate the activities of this well-spent life.
Henry Osborn Taylor
1915 Century Association Yearbook