Importer (East Indies)
Centurion, 1877–1899
Born 24 June 1838 in New York (Manhattan), New York
Died 10 February 1899 in New York (Manhattan), New York
Buried Green-Wood Cemetery
, Brooklyn, New York
Proposed by Henry G. Marquand and William W. Parkin
Elected 5 May 1877 at age thirty-eight
Archivist’s Note: Brother of D. Edwin Hawley and E. Judson Hawley
Century Memorial
Henry E. Hawley was a well-known business man of this city; a member of the firm of Carter, Hawley & Company, importers from the East Indies. He was a graduate of Yale in the class of 1860, which numbered many distinguished New Yorkers in its list; and was a descendant of an old Connecticut family, which founded Ridgefield, Connecticut, some of the members of which still occupy the old homestead under deed from the Indians. He was actively identified with the Children’s Aid Society, the Five Points House of Industry, and other charities; and was a member of many of the most important clubs. He is remembered as a genial, retiring man, interested in all that was refining and elevating, and honorable in all the affairs of life.
Henry E. Howland
1900 Century Association Yearbook