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Robert Neill Brace

Birth
Hastings-on-Hudson, Westchester County, New York, USA
Death
24 Dec 1938 (aged 77)
Ridgefield, Fairfield County, Connecticut, USA
Burial
Valhalla, Westchester County, New York, USA Add to Map
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Robert N. Brace, Ph.B. 1885, Yale grad. His father, Charles Loring Brace (B A 1846), was founder of Children's Aid Society 1853. His mother was Letitia (Neill) Brace.
Robert worked as civil engineer with Northern Pacific Railroad 1885-93; had been superintendent home-finding department Children's Aid Society, N.Y.City, 1893 until retirement in 1931. Since retirement he had resided in Ridgefield, member St Stephen's Church (Episcopal), Ridgefield.
Robert married on June 5,1909, in New York City, to Elizabeth Mead, daughter of Augustus L. & Sarah E. (St John) Hyde. No children.
Death due to a cerebral hemorrhage Buried in Kensico Cemetery, Valhalla, N.Y. Survived by wife and two sisters:
1. Emma Brace Donaldson (Smith ex-'8i), the widow of Henry H Donaldson (Yale '79)
2. Letitia Brace Croswell, the wife of James Croswell (B,A Harvard 1873) of Santa Barbara, Calif.

Other Yale relatives include a brother, Charles Loring Brace, '76 S, and a nephew, Charles Loring Brace, 3d, '18 S
[page 174 of "1938-1939 Obituary Record of Graduates of Yale University"]
Robert N. Brace, Ph.B. 1885, Yale grad. His father, Charles Loring Brace (B A 1846), was founder of Children's Aid Society 1853. His mother was Letitia (Neill) Brace.
Robert worked as civil engineer with Northern Pacific Railroad 1885-93; had been superintendent home-finding department Children's Aid Society, N.Y.City, 1893 until retirement in 1931. Since retirement he had resided in Ridgefield, member St Stephen's Church (Episcopal), Ridgefield.
Robert married on June 5,1909, in New York City, to Elizabeth Mead, daughter of Augustus L. & Sarah E. (St John) Hyde. No children.
Death due to a cerebral hemorrhage Buried in Kensico Cemetery, Valhalla, N.Y. Survived by wife and two sisters:
1. Emma Brace Donaldson (Smith ex-'8i), the widow of Henry H Donaldson (Yale '79)
2. Letitia Brace Croswell, the wife of James Croswell (B,A Harvard 1873) of Santa Barbara, Calif.

Other Yale relatives include a brother, Charles Loring Brace, '76 S, and a nephew, Charles Loring Brace, 3d, '18 S
[page 174 of "1938-1939 Obituary Record of Graduates of Yale University"]


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