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Frederick Fawcett

Merchant (Leather)

Centurion, 1850–1877

Born 22 February 1811 in York, England

Died 1 May 1877 in New York (Manhattan), New York

Buried Woodlawn Cemetery, Bronx, New York

Proposed by John H. Gourlie

Elected 4 May 1850 at age thirty-nine

Proposer of:

Century Memorial

The Club has lost by death during the year the following members: James W. Beekman, John Winthrop Chanler, Alpheus B. Crosby, Frederick Fawcett, Henry Peters Gray, William P. Lee, Marshall Pepoon, Edward Seymour, J. Butler Wright, Charles E. Milnor, William B. Ogden, and J. V. L. Pruyn. Most of these were old members of the Century, many of them eminent in the community and leaders in their respective walks of life, and several of them among the most loved of our associates.

Augustus R. Macdonough
1878 Century Association Reports