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Richard H. Ewart

Merchant

Centurion, 1893–1918

Full Name Richard Hooker Ewart

Born 24 July 1848 in Belfast, Northern Ireland

Died 18 October 1918 in New York (Manhattan), New York

Buried Lowell Cemetery, Lowell, Massachusetts

Proposed by Gustavus Tuckerman and Theodore Chickering Williams

Elected 4 March 1893 at age forty-four

Century Memorial

Richard Hooker Ewart was active for half a century in the mercantile and social life of New York City, where his experience was drawn upon in the management both of business organizations and of philanthropic institutions.

Alexander Dana Noyes
1919 Century Association Yearbook