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Alfred Wilkinson

Banker

Centurion, 1873–1886

Born 17 August 1831 in Syracuse, New York

Died 7 July 1886 in Syracuse, New York

Buried Oakwood Cemetery, Syracuse, New York

Proposed by George P. Putnam, Eastman Johnson, Thomas Hicks, and Whitelaw Reid

Elected 1 February 1873 at age forty-one

Seconder of:

Century Memorial

[T]he list of those deceased includes 16 names, which, ranged in the order of seniority of membership, are those of Asher B. Durand, John H. Platt, D. Williamson Lee, Thomas B. Coddington, Henry J. Scudder, Charles S. Seyton, David Van Nostrand, James M. Redmond, Samuel J. Tilden, Chester A. Arthur, Charles Short, Alfred Wilkinson, James Kent, S. Oakley Vanderpoel, Austin Flint and John Forsyth. The average length of membership of those who compose this list was twenty-one years and four months.

Horace W. Robbins
1887 Century Association Reports