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Peter R. Strong

Poet

Centurion, 1853–1879

Full Name Peter Remsen Strong

Born 21 February 1823 in New York (Manhattan), New York

Died 11 February 1879 in New York (Manhattan), New York

Buried Reformed Church of Newtown Cemetery, Elmhurst, New York

Proposed by Jasper F. Cropsey

Elected 5 February 1853 at age twenty-nine

Proposer of:

Century Memorial

Joseph E. Buckley [sic: Bulkley], Walter Brown, Alfred W. Craven, Edward F. Davidson, Jonathan Edgar, Admiral Godine, the Rev. Benjamin I. Haight, Dr. James M. Minor, John Blair Scribner and Peter R. Strong are no longer among us.

Augustus R. Macdonough
1880 Century Association Reports