Professor
Centurion, 1892–1903
Born 22 November 1843 in Saratoga Springs, New York
Died 13 April 1903 in New Brunswick, New Jersey
Buried Forest Lawn Cemetery
, Buffalo, New York
Proposed by Thomas Egleston and John H. Caswell
Elected 4 June 1892 at age forty-eight
Century Memorial
Albert Huntington Chester, at the time of his death, was Professor of Chemistry and Mineralogy at Rutgers College, having previously filled a like chair at Hamilton College. He was the author of two works on minerals, held in high esteem in this country and abroad, was a Fellow of the American Society for the Advancement of Science, a member of the Mineralogical Society of Great Britain, and of the Société Française de Minéralogie. He had high standing as a mining engineer, and contributed extensively to foreign and home publications in his specialty.
Edward Cary
1904 Century Association Yearbook