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Thomas Sturgis

Rancher/Fire Commissioner, New York City

Centurion, 1886–1914

Born 6 April 1846 in New York (Manhattan), New York

Died 25 February 1914 in Eastbourne, England

Buried Woodlawn Cemetery, Bronx, New York

Proposed by George William Curtis and James J. Higginson

Elected 1 May 1886 at age forty

Archivist’s Note: Brother of Frank K. Sturgis

Century Memorial

Thomas Sturgis, a vigorous citizen of our town, who was an officer in the Civil War, one of the first builders of model tenements, and Fire Commissioner under Mayor Low.

Henry Osborn Taylor
1915 Century Association Yearbook