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Edwin H. Chapin

Clergyman/Editor/Poet

Centurion, 1864–1880

Full Name Edwin Hubbell Chapin

Born 29 December 1814 in Union Village, New York

Died 26 December 1880 in New York (Manhattan), New York

Buried Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, New York

Proposed by Albert Bierstadt

Elected 4 June 1864 at age forty-nine

Century Memorial

The list of the latter [deceased members] contains the names of the Rev. Drs. Adams, Osgood and Chapin, besides those of Elliot C. Cowdin, William E. Curtis, Dudley Field, William B. Hoffman, Richard E. Mount, Albert J. Meyer, Charles D. Gambrill, Sanford R. Gifford, Marshall O. Roberts and R. D. Nesmith.

Augustus R. Macdonough
1881 Century Association Reports