Professor
Centurion, 1892–1916
Born 1 April 1865 in New York (Manhattan), New York
Died 12 January 1916 in New Haven, Connecticut
Buried Grove Street Cemetery
, New Haven, Connecticut
Proposed by Henry W. Farnam, Charles Comfort Tiffany, and Henry Metcalfe
Elected 4 June 1892 at age twenty-seven
Archivist’s Note: Son of Gustav Schwab; brother of Benjamin William Schwab, Gustav H. Schwab, Hermann C. Schwab, and L. Henry Schwab
Seconder of:
Century Memorial
John Christopher Schwab, the son of Gustav Schwab, was Librarian at Yale. He graduated there in ’86, became an instructor, and then Professor of Political Economy, from which position he passed to the headship of the university library. He was also an editor of the Yale Review, and the author of a financial history of The Confederate States of America and other works.
Henry Osborn Taylor
1917 Century Association Yearbook
