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Charles Pryer

Literary Amateur

Centurion, 1895–1916

Born 2 June 1851 in New Rochelle, New York

Died 8 June 1916 in New York (Manhattan), New York

Buried Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, New York

Proposed by Adolph W. Callisen and John MacMullen

Elected 4 May 1895 at age forty-three

Century Memorial

Charles Pryer was interested in printing and publishing, but was better known as a banker and yachtsman. For he was a director of the National City Bank, a Commodore of the New Rochelle Yacht Club and the Corinthian fleet; and had written a History of American Yachting. He collected coins and armor, and had fine knowledge of the Arts involved. A descendant of Huguenots, he sought to keep their traditions before men’s minds.

Henry Osborn Taylor
1917 Century Association Yearbook