Banker/Developer/Philanthropist
Centurion, 1875–1912
Born 4 August 1842 in Newport, Rhode Island
Died 22 January 1912 in New York (Manhattan), New York
Buried Island Cemetery
, Newport, Rhode Island
Proposed by John L. Cadwalader and James F. Ruggles
Elected 1 May 1875 at age thirty-two
Archivist’s Note: Son of Watts Sherman
Proposer of:
Century Memorial
William Watts Sherman, a man esteemed throughout a wide social circle in this city
Henry Osborn Taylor
1913 Century Association Yearbook