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Ames Van Wart

Sculptor

Centurion, 1870–1927

Born 20 January 1841 in New York (Manhattan), New York

Died 11 February 1927 in Paris, France

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Proposed by Pierre M. Irving and George P. Putnam

Elected 4 June 1870 at age twenty-nine

Century Memorial

Ames Van Wart was one of the three oldest resident members of the Century; all of whom, as it happens, entered the Club in the same year, 1870. He had long lost personal touch with the Club, however, having made his home in France for more than a quarter of a century.

Alexander Dana Noyes
1928 Century Association Yearbook