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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: 1879, cost $1,500, to which we have added a tablet costing about $100. NECROLOGY During the year 1917 we removed from our membership rolls on account of death the following names. The dates here given are those of their decease. Mrs. William Barr, Llewellyn Park, N. J., January 2, 1917. Hon. William Berri, Brooklyn, April 19, 1917. Alfred J. Bloor, Stonington, Conn., November 20, 1917. Hon. Joseph H. Choate, New York, May 14, 1917. Hon. John D. Crimmins, New York, November 9, 1917. John M. Gcsner, Nyack, N. Y., November 9, 1917. Martin Green, Worcester, Mass., July 31, 1917. Hon. William B. Howland, New York, February 27, 1917. Mrs. D. Willis James, New York, 1916.J- Heury M. Leipziger, Ph. D., LL. D., New York, December 1, 1917. Henry Parish, New York, September 18, 1917. Mrs. Julius T. Rockwell, Yonkers, January 12, 1917. Isaac N. Seligman, New York, October 80, 1917. A. C. Tucker, Nyack, N. Y., February 14, 1917. Capt. George A. White, New York, March 8, 1917. August Zinsser, New York, October 8, 1916.f Joseph Hodges Choate By far the moat distinguished member of the Society at the time of his death was Hon. Joseph Hodges Choate, who passed away at his residence, No. 8 East 63d Street, New York City, at 11.30 p. m. Tuesday, May 15, 1917. His death came as a special shock to his fellow-citizens, as he had recently been taking a prominent part in the reception of the French and British war commissions, and had appeared in public no later than the previous Sunday morning in the Cathedral of St. John the Divine with Mr. Balfour, the head of the British commission. He had been a sufferer from angina pectoris, and had undergone unusual fatigue in the performance of his duties in connection with the reception of the war envoy...
