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Lemuel C. Mygatt

Teacher

Centurion, 1896–1910

Full Name Lemuel Carrington Mygatt

Born 9 August 1849 in Chazy, New York

Died 23 July 1910 in Essex, New York

Proposed by James Craig Nicoll and Francis Lynde Stetson

Elected 5 December 1896 at age forty-seven

Century Memorial

Lemuel Carrington Mygatt was graduated from Williams in the Class of 1870. For twenty-three years before his death he was the Head Master of the Collegiate School, one of the oldest schools in the United States, having been founded in 1633. It greatly prospered under his administration. He was actively engaged in politics as a volunteer, entering into various campaigns against Tammany Hall.

Mr. Mygatt for years fought the bravest of fights against death. Smitten with a fatal disease which gave him great pain, he showed no sign and uttered no complaint to his friends. Cheerful, interested in all good things, his life was a triumphant victory over suffering and the constant prospect of death.

George William Knox
1911 Century Association Yearbook