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Alexander Blair Thaw

Author

Centurion, 1902–1937

Born 18 December 1860 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Died 5 October 1937 in Boston, Massachusetts

Buried Rockland Cemetery, Sparkill, New York

Proposed by Charles Loring Brace and Thomas Shields Clarke

Elected 1 November 1902 at age forty-one

Century Memorial

Alexander Blair Thaw was a quiet and unassuming Centurion, whose bent was toward occasional poetic writing. He had traveled widely, and had in recent years resided mostly at Washington or on the European continent.

Alexander Dana Noyes
1938 Century Association Yearbook