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Richard E. Mount

Lawyer/Trustee

Centurion, 1870–1880

Full Name Richard Edwards Mount

Born 13 September 1814 in New York (Manhattan), New York

Died 31 March 1880 in New York (Manhattan), New York

Buried Trinity Churchyard, Manhattan, New York

Proposed by Smith E. Lane, John H. Gourlie, and Augustus R. Macdonough

Elected 7 May 1870 at age fifty-five

Century Memorial

Richard E. Mount, resolute of will, sound in intellect, generous in impulse, recalls the portrait of some burgher of that by-gone New Amsterdam of which he was so proud, mellowed by the refinements and cultivation of a later age.

Augustus R. Macdonough
1881 Century Association Reports