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William A. Du Bois

Merchant

Centurion, 1895–1919

Full Name William Augustus Du Bois

Born 23 August 1839 in Fishkill, New York

Died 14 January 1919 in New York (Manhattan), New York

Buried Woodlawn Cemetery, Bronx, New York

Proposed by Willard Parker and Edward B. Coe

Elected 7 December 1895 at age fifty-six

Archivist’s Note: Brother of Matthew B. Du Bois

Century Memorial

William A. DuBois, a man of retiring personality, had long been engaged in the administration of an old estate and the dispensing of charity, along with his brother [Matthew B. DuBois], also a member of this Club. The two brothers, who had worked together throughout their later life, died within almost a fortnight of one another at the ending of the old year 1918 and the beginning of 1919.

Alexander Dana Noyes
1920 Century Association Yearbook