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Gustav Schwab

Merchant

Centurion, 1880–1888

Full Name Gustav Friedrich Schwab

Born 23 November 1822 in Stuttgart, Germany

Died 21 August 1888 in New York (Bronx), New York

Buried Woodlawn Cemetery, Bronx, New York

Proposed by Roswell D. Hitchcock and John E. Parsons

Elected 2 October 1880 at age fifty-seven

Century Memorial

Dr. Cornelius R. Agnew, Admiral Charles H. Baldwin, Joseph N. Balestier, William Dorsheimer, Joseph W. Drexel, Horace Fairbanks, George H. Forster, Gen. Quincy A. Gillmore, John R. G. Hazard [sic: Hassard], Richard W. Hubbard, Thomas McElrath, Col. Walter McFarland, T. Bailey Myers, Henry E. Pierrepont, Frederick A. Potts, Prof. Robert R. Raymond, Bernard Roelker, Dr. Thomas T. Sabine, Mahlon D. Sands, Dr. Henry B. Sands, Gustav Schwab.

The Club has seldom been called upon to deplore the loss of so many distinguished and valuable members in one year.

Henry E. Howland
1889 Century Association Reports