That organization, too, had a share in the moulding of the new club.
The meeting that brought the Century into being was held the evening of January 13, 1847, in the rotunda of the New York Gallery of Fine Arts in the City Hall Park.

The call for the meeting had been sent out a few weeks before, the men composing the signing committee being John G.
Chapman, A.B.Burand, C.C.Ingham, A.M.Cozzens, F.W.Edmonds, and H.T.
Tuckerman.

The original Centurions were forty-two in number, of whom twenty-five came from the Sketch, and six from the Column.

There were ten artists, ten merchants, four authors, three bankers, three physicians, two clergymen, two lawyers, one editor, one diplomat, and three men of leisure.

All were more or less representative men of the city, which had grown from the town of three hundred and fifty thousand of the day of the Union's formation, to a young metropolis of six hundred thousand.