Sir Moses Montefiore is a recent
example of an active centenarian.
In the New York Herald of April 21, 1895, is a description and a
portrait of Noah Raby of the Piscataway Poor Farm of New Jersey,
to whom was ascribed one hundred and twenty-three years. He was
discharged from active duty on the "Brandywine," U.S.N.,
eighty-three years ago. He relates having heard George Washington
speak at Washington and at Portsmouth while his ship was in those
places. The same journal also says that at Wichita, Kansas, there
appeared at a municipal election an old negress named Mrs.
Harriet McMurray, who gave her age as one hundred and fifteen.
She had been a slave, and asserted that once on a visit to
Alexandria with her master she had seen General Washington. From
the Indian Medical Record we learn that Lieutenant Nicholas Lavin
of the Grand Armee died several years ago at the age of one
hundred and twenty-five, leaving a daughter of seventy-eight. He
was born in Paris in 1768, served as a hussar in several
campaigns, and was taken a prisoner during the retreat from
Moscow. After his liberation he married and made his residence in
Saratoff.
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