Clergyman
Centurion, 1892–1935
Born 22 November 1853 in Newark, New Jersey
Died 9 August 1935 in Hunter, New York
Buried Mount Pleasant Cemetery
, Newark, New Jersey
Proposed by Roderick Terry and William T. Lusk
Elected 7 May 1892 at age thirty-eight
Archivist’s Note: Father of Samuel Sloan Duryee; uncle of George V. W. Duryee
Proposer of:
Century Memorial
A minister whose pastoral service, at the head of a single church, continued from 1879 to 1920, was a link with New York’s longer past, and Joseph Rankin Duryee’s personal reminiscence often took its color from the amazing changes of that forty-two year period in the city’s life. Dr. Duryee had surveyed that passing scene with gentle and kindly judgment of his fellow-men; it was inseparable from his personality, which never changed. A quiet talk with him at the Club’s monthly-meeting night—he rarely missed them—often carried back the mind to other days. But his interest in present-day events and institutions never flagged.
Alexander Dana Noyes
1936 Century Association Yearbook