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Clement March

Manager, House of Refuse, Randall's Island

Centurion, 1896–1937

Born 23 November 1862 in New York (Manhattan), New York

Died 23 March 1937 in Kinderhook, New York

Buried Saint James Episcopal Churchyard, Hyde Park, New York

Proposed by William Watts Sherman, J. J. Townsend, and Harper Pennington

Elected 7 November 1896 at age thirty-three

Century Memorial

Clement March did public service under Mayor McClellan on the Board of Education and on the board of managers for the city’s House of Refuge at Randall’s Island. In the European war, he was useful in the Department of Military Intelligence, translating for his chief the communications and newspaper editorials in the Spanish and Portuguese languages.

Alexander Dana Noyes
1938 Century Association Yearbook