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Charles Edward Carryl

Stockbroker/Author, Children’s Literature

Centurion, 1880–1908

Born 30 December 1841 in New York (Manhattan), New York

Died 3 July 1920 in Boston, Massachusetts

Buried Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, New York

Proposed by William H. Wisner and Francis C. Bowman

Elected 2 October 1880 at age thirty-eight

Archivist’s Note: He resigned in 1890 and was reinstated in May 1896 with a new set of proposers, William Bispham and Edmund C. Stedman.