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Thomas LeClear

Painter

Centurion, 1863–1882

Born 17 March 1818 in Owego, New York

Died 26 November 1882 in Rutherford Park, New Jersey

Buried Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, New York

Proposed by Charles Edwin West

Elected 7 November 1863 at age forty-five

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