Albert H. Whitin

The Club did not often see Albert H. Whitin. Although an out-of-town member during twenty-five years, giving his address at the Massachusetts town of Whitinsville, where the family’s cotton-machinery mills were located, he had lived abroad during nearly all his term of membership, moving about from one European capital to another. In all of them his acquaintance was wide and of the best, in official as in social life; he used his wealth, not alone for collection of artistic objects, but for constant hospitality. His lawyers testified afterward that his will was an unusual document, containing 107 type-written clauses with an astonishingly long list of beneficiaries. That the Century Club should have been one of them, with a bequest of $3,000, proved that long-time foreign residence had not obscured Whitin’s own pleasant recollections of the Club.

Alexander Dana Noyes
1936 Century Association Yearbook