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Samuel Wetmore

Merchant (Tea)

Centurion, 1858–1885

Born 3 May 1812 in Middletown, Connecticut

Died 27 March 1885 in New York (Manhattan), New York

Buried Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, New York

Proposed by Augustus R. Macdonough

Elected 2 October 1858 at age forty-six

Century Memorial

[T]he list of those deceased in 1885 presents the unusually small number of six. These are Stillman S. Conant, Charles Tracy, Commander Henry H. Gorringe, General Irvin McDowell, Professor John C. Draper, and Samuel Wetmore.

Augustus R. Macdonough
1886 Century Association Reports