Daniel Russell Brown

D. Russell Brown was born in Bolton, Connecticut, United States, on March 28, 1848. He was son of Arba Harrison Brown and Harriet M. (Dart) Brown. He went to public schools and worked his way up to head salesman at a hardware store in Hartford, then moved to Providence, Rhode Island, where he became partner in a mill supply store. He married Isabel Barrows October 14, 1874. They had three children, Milton Barrows Brown, Isabel Russell Brown (later Brunschwig), and Hope Caroline Brown (later Chapin). Hope was honeymooning on the British ocean liner RMS Carpathia in April 1912, when this vessel took on the survivors of the RMS Titanic. ==Political career==

Brown was a Presidential Elector for Rhode Island in 1888. In 1891, he became a member of the Rhode Island Society of the Sons of the American Revolution. He died on February 28, 1919, and was buried at Swan Point Cemetery in Providence. ==Notes==