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Thomas B. Bryson

Civil Engineer

Centurion, 1915–1922

Full Name Thomas Bines Bryson

Born 9 April 1872 in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania

Died 5 September 1922 in New York (Manhattan), New York

Buried Kensico Cemetery, Valhalla, New York

Proposed by Alfred Noble and Carleton Greene

Elected 1 May 1915 at age forty-three

Century Memorial

Thomas B. Bryson had applied his engineering skill to solve some of the most puzzling construction problems of the day, among them the extremely difficult planning of the subway station at Times Square. His professional capacity in such achievements had been recognized by the entrusting to him of the personal supervision of the approach, entrance and exits of the vehicular tunnel to New Jersey.

Alexander Dana Noyes
1923 Century Association Yearbook