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Samuel G. Ward

Poet/Banker/Trustee

Centurion, 1866–1884

Full Name Samuel Gray Ward

Born 3 October 1817 in Cambridge, Massachusetts

Died 17 November 1907 in Washington, District of Columbia

Buried Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Massachusetts

Proposed by George Cabot Ward and John Jay

Elected 7 April 1866 at age forty-eight

Archivist’s Note: Brother of George Cabot Ward; father of Thomas Wren Ward; father-in-law of Richard von Hoffman; uncle of Robert Barker; grandfather of Cabot Ward

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