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Joseph Kershaw

Commission Merchant

Centurion, 1854–1856

Born c. 1818 in England

Died after 23 January 1856 in North Atlantic, At Sea

Buried Lost at Sea

Proposed by William P. Wright

Elected 7 January 1854 at about age thirty-six

Archivist’s Note: The date of death recorded here refers to when the sidewheel steamer SS Pacific, which Kershaw was aboard, left port in Liverpool en route to New York; the precise date and location of her sinking are unknown.