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J. Butler Wright

Civil Engineer

Centurion, 1861–1877

Full Name Joshua Butler Wright

Born 18 March 1812 in Rome, New York

Died 30 October 1877 in Scarborough, New York

Buried Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, Sleepy Hollow, New York

Proposed by Thomas Hicks

Elected 4 May 1861 at age forty-nine

Seconder of:

Century Memorial

The Club has lost by death during the year the following members: James W. Beekman, John Winthrop Chanler, Alpheus B. Crosby, Frederick Fawcett, Henry Peters Gray, William P. Lee, Marshall Pepoon, Edward Seymour, J. Butler Wright, Charles E. Milnor, William B. Ogden, and J. V. L. Pruyn. Most of these were old members of the Century, many of them eminent in the community and leaders in their respective walks of life, and several of them among the most loved of our associates.

Augustus R. Macdonough
1878 Century Association Reports