Merchant
Centurion, 1894–1898
Born 5 January 1853 in New York (Brooklyn), New York
Died 6 March 1898 in New York (Manhattan), New York
Buried Woodlawn Cemetery
, Bronx, New York
Proposed by William Gardner Choate and Charles Comfort Tiffany
Elected 3 February 1894 at age forty-one
Archivist’s Note: Son of Gustav Schwab; brother of Benjamin William Schwab, Gustav H. Schwab, L. Henry Schwab, and John C. Schwab
Century Memorial
Herman C. Schwab came of a family distinguished in literature by many of its members in several generations, and represented by others in highly successful mercantile pursuits. He was a descendant of John Christopher Schwab, who was appointed by Frederick the Great to be a member of the Royal Academy of Sciences and Professor in the Military School at Berlin, and who was for many years Professor of Mathematics and Philosophy at Stuttgart. Following the traditions of his family, Mr. Schwab received a university training at Stuttgart, and subsequently joined the successful and prominent firm of Oelrichs & Company, with which he was connected at the time of his death.
He was an active, enterprising and public-spirited man, an earnest worker in the Reform Club, and a type of the citizenship of which our city is justly proud.
Henry E. Howland
1899 Century Association Yearbook