Charles R. Brewster
Northampton, Jan 8 – Charles Russell Brewster, 54, a descendant of Elder William Brewster of the Mayflower and internationally known as a construction engineer died in Dickinson Hospital here today after a brief illness.
He was born in this city, a son of Anna Williams and the late Maj Charles Brewster. He had been connected with much of the traction development of the South, and in Baton Rouge supervised one of the last trolley systems opened in this country.
Mr. Brewster had been superintendent of streets at Fort Worth, Tex., and during the World War had charge of highways in that vicinity.
In 1930 he was in a party of American engineers sent to Greece to survey for modern waterworks and sewer systems of Athens and he supervised construction of this project. His last foreign assignment was Lublin, Poland, from which he returned three years ago.
Since then Mr. Brewster had engaged in airport development at Valley Stream, L I; Pittsburg and Syracuse, N.Y. He was a Mason and a member of the Fort Worth Lodge of Elks.
Beside his mother, he leaves one brother, Dean Brewster of Gethsemane Cathedral at Fargo, N D, and four sisters.
(Boston Globe, Friday, 9 January 1931, p19)
Northampton, Jan 8 – Charles Russell Brewster, 54, a descendant of Elder William Brewster of the Mayflower and internationally known as a construction engineer died in Dickinson Hospital here today after a brief illness.
He was born in this city, a son of Anna Williams and the late Maj Charles Brewster. He had been connected with much of the traction development of the South, and in Baton Rouge supervised one of the last trolley systems opened in this country.
Mr. Brewster had been superintendent of streets at Fort Worth, Tex., and during the World War had charge of highways in that vicinity.
In 1930 he was in a party of American engineers sent to Greece to survey for modern waterworks and sewer systems of Athens and he supervised construction of this project. His last foreign assignment was Lublin, Poland, from which he returned three years ago.
Since then Mr. Brewster had engaged in airport development at Valley Stream, L I; Pittsburg and Syracuse, N.Y. He was a Mason and a member of the Fort Worth Lodge of Elks.
Beside his mother, he leaves one brother, Dean Brewster of Gethsemane Cathedral at Fargo, N D, and four sisters.
(Boston Globe, Friday, 9 January 1931, p19)
Charles R. Brewster
Northampton, Jan 8 – Charles Russell Brewster, 54, a descendant of Elder William Brewster of the Mayflower and internationally known as a construction engineer died in Dickinson Hospital here today after a brief illness.
He was born in this city, a son of Anna Williams and the late Maj Charles Brewster. He had been connected with much of the traction development of the South, and in Baton Rouge supervised one of the last trolley systems opened in this country.
Mr. Brewster had been superintendent of streets at Fort Worth, Tex., and during the World War had charge of highways in that vicinity.
In 1930 he was in a party of American engineers sent to Greece to survey for modern waterworks and sewer systems of Athens and he supervised construction of this project. His last foreign assignment was Lublin, Poland, from which he returned three years ago.
Since then Mr. Brewster had engaged in airport development at Valley Stream, L I; Pittsburg and Syracuse, N.Y. He was a Mason and a member of the Fort Worth Lodge of Elks.
Beside his mother, he leaves one brother, Dean Brewster of Gethsemane Cathedral at Fargo, N D, and four sisters.
(Boston Globe, Friday, 9 January 1931, p19)
Northampton, Jan 8 – Charles Russell Brewster, 54, a descendant of Elder William Brewster of the Mayflower and internationally known as a construction engineer died in Dickinson Hospital here today after a brief illness.
He was born in this city, a son of Anna Williams and the late Maj Charles Brewster. He had been connected with much of the traction development of the South, and in Baton Rouge supervised one of the last trolley systems opened in this country.
Mr. Brewster had been superintendent of streets at Fort Worth, Tex., and during the World War had charge of highways in that vicinity.
In 1930 he was in a party of American engineers sent to Greece to survey for modern waterworks and sewer systems of Athens and he supervised construction of this project. His last foreign assignment was Lublin, Poland, from which he returned three years ago.
Since then Mr. Brewster had engaged in airport development at Valley Stream, L I; Pittsburg and Syracuse, N.Y. He was a Mason and a member of the Fort Worth Lodge of Elks.
Beside his mother, he leaves one brother, Dean Brewster of Gethsemane Cathedral at Fargo, N D, and four sisters.
(Boston Globe, Friday, 9 January 1931, p19)
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