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Severyn B. Sharpe

Lawyer

Centurion, 1908–1929

Full Name Severyn Bruyn Sharpe

Born 1 January 1857 in Kingston, New York

Died 24 November 1929 in New York (Manhattan), New York

Buried Wiltwyck Cemetery, Kingston, New York

Proposed by Fordham Morris and James M. Varnum

Elected 6 June 1908 at age fifty-one

Century Memorial

Severyn Bruyn Sharpe practiced law in this city or in his Kingston birthplace during nearly fifty years; he had been a member of the Century for twenty-one. He served a term as judge of Ulster County.

Alexander Dana Noyes
1930 Century Association Yearbook