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Charles Kneeland

Merchant (Cotton)

Centurion, 1853–1856

Born 3 March 1808 in New York (Manhattan), New York

Died 19 December 1881 in Hartford, Connecticut

Buried Church on the Hill Cemetery, Lenox, Massachusetts

Proposed by John Frederick Kensett

Elected 5 February 1853 at age forty-four

Archivist’s Note: Father of Charles Kneeland Jr.