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Henry S. Norris

Physician

Centurion, 1899–1916

Full Name Henry Selden Norris

Born 29 August 1847 in New York (Brooklyn), New York

Died 19 November 1916 in New York (Manhattan), New York

Buried Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, New York

Proposed by Virgil P. Gibney and Laurence Hutton

Elected 7 October 1899 at age fifty-two

Century Memorial

Henry Selden Norris was consulting specialist and attending physician at Bellevue and the City and other hospitals. Belonging to an old New York family, he was a member of the St. Nicholas Society, and a veteran of the Seventh Regiment. A clear-sighted diagnostician; sympathetic and devoted as a practitioner; his practice was marked by insight and success, and his life was marked by many acts of kindness.

Henry Osborn Taylor
1917 Century Association Yearbook