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Richard H. Williams

Merchant (Coal)

Centurion, 1891–1918

Full Name Richard Henry Williams

Born 11 September 1854 in New York (Manhattan), New York

Died 28 April 1923 in New York (Manhattan), New York

Buried Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, New York

Proposed by Henry E. Howland and Charles Scribner

Elected 5 December 1891 at age thirty-seven