Mining Engineer
Centurion, 1881–1909
Born 27 December 1846 in New York (Manhattan), New York
Died 16 October 1909 in New York (Manhattan), New York
Buried Trinity Church Cemetery and Mausoleum
, Manhattan, New York
Proposed by William E. Curtis and Henry Drisler
Elected 7 May 1881 at age thirty-four
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Century Memorial
John Henry Caswell was a mining engineer of ability and an accomplished mineralogist; he was likewise a successful merchant, a generous friend, a lover of books and their makers, a student of ecclesiastical and secular affairs, a devout churchman and charged with weighty church interests. He was a fine type of the best New Yorker. Eminently social, his company was sought by seven clubs, but this was the one he mostly frequented during the twenty-eight years of membership; he was sixty-three [sic: sixty-two] when stricken down. He was a graduate of Columbia, for thirty-three years a vestryman of Trinity, for all his manhood a working citizen. Those who survive him here have felt him to be one of the inner circle, a man to trust and love.
William Milligan Sloane
1910 Century Association Yearbook
