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Edward H. Squibb

Chemist/Physician

Centurion, 1901–1929

Full Name Edward Hamilton Squibb

Born 30 September 1853 in New York (Brooklyn), New York

Died 7 July 1929 in South Harwich, Massachusetts

Buried Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, New York

Proposed by Henry van Dyke and David Henry Cochran

Elected 6 April 1901 at age forty-seven

Century Memorial

Dr. Edward Hamilton Squibb had been a member of the Century for twenty-eight years. He had practiced in Brooklyn where, in addition to his professional work, he conducted a business enterprise of manufacturing chemists and found time for philanthropic work. New York physicians will remember him as one of the foremost pharmacologists of his day, an innovator in the production of many indispensable remedies.

Alexander Dana Noyes
1930 Century Association Yearbook