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Horace Fairbanks

Politician/Governor of Vermont

Centurion, 1876–1888

Born 21 March 1820 in Barnet, Vermont

Died 17 March 1888 in New York (Manhattan), New York

Buried Mount Pleasant Cemetery, Saint Johnsbury, Vermont

Proposed by Worthington Whittredge and Edmund Randolph Peaslee

Elected 2 December 1876 at age fifty-six

Century Memorial

Dr. Cornelius R. Agnew, Admiral Charles H. Baldwin, Joseph N. Balestier, William Dorsheimer, Joseph W. Drexel, Horace Fairbanks, George H. Forster, Gen. Quincy A. Gillmore, John R. G. Hazard [sic: Hassard], Richard W. Hubbard, Thomas McElrath, Col. Walter McFarland, T. Bailey Myers, Henry E. Pierrepont, Frederick A. Potts, Prof. Robert R. Raymond, Bernard Roelker, Dr. Thomas T. Sabine, Mahlon D. Sands, Dr. Henry B. Sands, Gustav Schwab.

The Club has seldom been called upon to deplore the loss of so many distinguished and valuable members in one year.

Henry E. Howland
1889 Century Association Reports