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George B. de Forest

Banker/Book Collector

Centurion, 1891–1917

Full Name George Beach de Forest

Born 15 October 1848 in New York (Manhattan), New York

Died 6 July 1932 in New York (Manhattan), New York

Buried Trinity Church Cemetery and Mausoleum, Manhattan, New York

Proposed by Buchanan Winthrop and Frank K. Sturgis

Elected 2 May 1891 at age forty-two