Manufacturer
Centurion, 1903–1918
Born 20 March 1846 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Died 25 February 1918 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Buried West Laurel Hill Cemetery
, Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania
Proposed by William R. Warren and Theodore Cooper
Elected 5 December 1903 at age fifty-seven
Century Memorial
William Burnham, a practical steel manufacturer, was at the time of his death president of the Standard Steel Works and director of the Baldwin Locomotive Company, of which latter company his father was a founder. Resident of Philadelphia, Mr. Burnham always took deep interest in educational work in the South, especially for the poor whites of the mountain regions and the negroes of the “Black Belt,” and he gave his time ungrudgingly to other useful charities.
Alexander Dana Noyes
1919 Century Association Yearbook