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Charles C. Barrows

Physician

Centurion, 1893–1916

Full Name Charles Clifford Barrows

Born 5 June 1857 in Hind, Mississippi

Died 2 January 1916 in New York (Manhattan), New York

Buried Kensico Cemetery, Valhalla, New York

Proposed by William M. Polk and Elihu Chauncey

Elected 6 May 1893 at age thirty-five

Seconder of:

Century Memorial

Charles Clifford Barrows was a noted surgeon, of Southern stock. When a young man he served as assistant army surgeon in the Indian campaigns of General Crook. Later he devoted himself to gynecology and obstetrics, teaching and practicing these branches in a number of medical colleges and hospitals in this city and at Cornell University. He was president of the Bellevue Hospital Alumni and of the New York Clinical Society.

Henry Osborn Taylor
1917 Century Association Yearbook