Lawyer
Centurion, 1917–1945
Born 23 August 1859 in Boston, Massachusetts
Died 28 July 1945 in New York (Manhattan), New York
Buried Woodlawn Cemetery
, Bronx, New York
Proposed by Camillus G. Kidder and James Carroll Beckwith
Elected 7 April 1917 at age fifty-seven
Century Memorial
John Stevens Melcher. [Born] 1859. Lawyer.
In the Century we have great conversationalists which means that we need listeners as well—and one of the greatest of these was John Melcher. I commend to the artists of the Century who will depict our habitat for the Centennial Book, a sketch of John Melcher and the eloquent Bob MacAlarney side by side at the long table, each doing his stuff.
Melcher pulled his weight in the Century boat and in the community. He was treasurer and president of the New York Society for the Ruptured and Crippled; in the Century he served for six years on the Board of Management and on the House Committee. A loyal Centurion, he was admired as a man whose serenity was unruffled by adverse circumstances and whose prejudices were majestic.
Source: Henry Allen Moe Papers, Mss.B.M722. Reproduced by permission of American Philosophical Society Library & Museum, Philadelphia
Henry Allen Moe
Henry Allen Moe Papers, 1945 Memorials
