Lawyer
Centurion, 1909–1937
Born 1 January 1870 in Rome, New York
Died 4 June 1937 in New York (Manhattan), New York
Buried Trinity Church Cemetery and Mausoleum
, Manhattan, New York
Proposed by Adrian H. Joline and James D. Smillie
Elected 1 May 1909 at age thirty-nine
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Century Memorial
Colonel Howard Thayer Kingsbury was described by those who knew him best as a most delightful, agreeable and cultivated gentleman, to whom applied individually the classic aphorism that nothing of human interest and culture was alien to him. Colonel Kingsbury, of old and distinguished New England ancestry, was admitted to the New York bar forty-four years ago; he quickly won his spurs in the profession. How widely his own varied field of interest extended was shown by his conducting of important cases before the United States Supreme Court, his active participation in the work of the International Law Association, his service as counsel for the British government in the World War, his presidency of the village where he made his summer home, his fifteen-year service as Judge Advocate of the New York State National Guard and his helpfulness in raising the standard of the American theatre. It was Kingsbury who translated for Richard Mansfield the acting text of Rostand’s “Cyrano.”
Alexander Dana Noyes
1938 Century Association Yearbook
