Stockbroker/Civil Engineer
Centurion, 1860–1886
Born 27 July 1823 in Scotland
Died 1 April 1886 in London, England
Proposed by J. Howard Wainwright
Elected 4 February 1860 at age thirty-six
Archivist’s Note: Birth surname “Smith.”
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Century Memorial
[T]he list of those deceased includes 16 names, which, ranged in the order of seniority of membership, are those of Asher B. Durand, John H. Platt, D. Williamson Lee, Thomas B. Coddington, Henry J. Scudder, Charles S. Seyton, David Van Nostrand, James M. Redmond, Samuel J. Tilden, Chester A. Arthur, Charles Short, Alfred Wilkinson, James Kent, S. Oakley Vanderpoel, Austin Flint and John Forsyth. The average length of membership of those who compose this list was twenty-one years and four months.
Horace W. Robbins
1887 Century Association Reports
