Merchant/Exporter
Centurion, 1918–1938
Born 24 July 1860 in New York (Manhattan), New York
Died 21 March 1938 in New York (Manhattan), New York
Buried Poughkeepsie Rural Cemetery
, Poughkeepsie, New York
Proposed by Henry C. Lawrence and Howard Russell Butler
Elected 4 May 1918 at age fifty-seven
Archivist’s Note: Brother-in-law of Frank H. Damrosch and Walter Damrosch
Century Memorial
Like many another good Centurion, Henry T. Seymour entered the affections of the Club through the billiard room. Nearly every afternoon he played billiards there and by his quiet kindliness and good nature earned a wealth of lasting friendship. As an exporter to the Orient, he traveled around the world many times and trained his eye and his taste by observing, by collecting, and by sketching. He was a lifelong amateur in the painting of landscapes and he counted many artists and architects of the Club among his intimates. His fifty years of experience with industrialists throughout the United States had impressed him with their high moral standards and integrity. He was correspondingly irate in recent years when the present administration made its harsh criticisms of American business. When his indignation could be no longer restrained he boiled over in a letter to the Herald Tribune admirably conceived and devastatingly expressed.
Geoffrey Parsons
1938 Century Memorials