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Alexander L. Holley

Engineer/Metallurgist

Centurion, 1868–1882

Full Name Alexander Lyman Holley

Born 20 July 1832 in Lakeville, Connecticut

Died 29 January 1882 in New York (Brooklyn), New York

Buried Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, New York

Proposed by David Van Nostrand

Elected 5 December 1868 at age thirty-six

Seconder of:

Century Memorial

[T]he list of those deceased includes 12 names, those of the Rev. Henry W. Bellows, Gen’l J. G. Barnard, Henry Draper, Jonathan Edwards, Fred’k E. Gibert, Alexander L. Holley, Thos. Le Clear, Dr. Erskine Mason, Clarkson N. Potter, Dr. James R. Wood, Robert L. Stuart and Edgar S. Van Winkle.

Augustus R. Macdonough
1883 Century Association Reports