Merchant
Centurion, 1895–1915
Born 6 September 1835 in Milbrook, New York
Died 4 July 1915 in Quebec, Canada
Buried Woodlawn Cemetery
, Bronx, New York
Proposed by John S. Kennedy, Frederick Sturges, and William H. Tillinghast
Elected 4 May 1895 at age fifty-nine
Archivist’s Note: He died aboard a yacht while cruising the St. John River in Quebec. Father of Samuel Thorne.
Century Memorial
Samuel Thorne was a man of gentle temper and shrewd sense. A man of wealth, he busied himself successfully in model farming and the breeding of shorthorn cattle on his estate near Milbrook. He was also influential in finance, as a director of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy and the Great Northern Railway Companies, the Bank of America, and other monied institutions.
Henry Osborn Taylor
1916 Century Association Yearbook