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Joseph G. Thorp Jr.

Lawyer

Centurion, 1900–1908

Full Name Joseph Gilbert Thorp Jr.

Born 17 August 1852 in Oxford, New York

Died 5 May 1931 in Boston, Massachusetts

Buried Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Massachusetts

Proposed by John Graham Brooks and Austen G. Fox

Elected 6 October 1900 at age forty-eight

Archivist’s Note: Son-in-law of (nonmember) Henry Wadsworth Longfellow