Robert Bruce Brown

1876–1957 (age 81)

Biography

Robert Bruce Brown was born in 1876 and lived through the transformative decades of the late 19th and 20th centuries. His life spanned a period of remarkable change and progress in American society.

Brown passed away in 1957 and was interred at Oak Hill Cemetery, where his memory endures as part of the community's history and heritage.

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