Banker/Philanthropist
Centurion, 1878–1913
Born 25 September 1833 in New York (Manhattan), New York
Died 16 December 1913 in New York (Manhattan), New York
Buried Sleepy Hollow Cemetery
, Sleepy Hollow, New York
Proposed by Edmund R. Robinson and Morris K. Jesup
Elected 7 December 1878 at age forty-five
Century Memorial
George Sullivan Bowdoin, a [great-]grandson of Alexander Hamilton, was a financier and helper of his fellow-men. As member of the firm of Morton, Bliss & Co., and afterwards of Drexel, Morgan & Co., he acquired wealth, which he dispensed in an admirable way. His benefactions were as large and as intelligently chosen, as they were modestly made. He gave the Neighborhood House of Grace Church, and with Mr. Morgan contributed heavily to the construction of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine. Interested in science as well as devoutly religious, he assisted liberally to promote the ends and further the enterprises of the American Museum of Natural History. He married Miss Julia Irving Grinnell.
Henry Osborn Taylor
1914 Century Association Yearbook
