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Earliest Members of the Century Association

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James Geddes Day

Merchant (Dry Goods)

Centurion, 1866–1872

Born 31 October 1837 in Boston, Massachusetts

Died 16 May 1873 in Ponta Delgada, Azores, Portugal

Buried Yantic Cemetery, Norwich, Connecticut

Proposed by Theodore W. Dwight and Francis Vinton

Elected 2 June 1866 at age twenty-eight

Archivist’s Note: Grandson-in-law of (nonmember) Daniel Webster