Robert Brewster
Robert Stevens Brewster was b. May 10, 1989 in Brooklyn, NY and
died July 23, 1977 in Francisco. Robert was the son of George
Elbert Delmane Brewster and Mary Ellen Stevens of Maine. The
family was involved in maritime and Robert's grandfather was
Charles Hudson Brewster and referred to on his tombstone as
"Captain." The family was well-to-do having and at some point in
the early 1900s, Robert and his sister Rozella, along with
Rozella's husband Louis Kammerer and grandmother Rosilla Hawkins
Brewster lived in what is now the Historic Hewlett-Hawkins
House at Yaphank. Rosilla Hawkins Brewster was the widow of Charles Hudson
Brewster. It appears they also maintained a house in Brooklyn.
He married Lucile Brown (daughter of Fred Brown, her mother died
in childbirth) who was b. around 1898 in Maine and she passed
away October 1980 in Sacramento. He must have met Lucile when he
was still living in New York and they moved to San Francisco
where they had three children. Robert worked as an engineer for
many many years at the Palace Hotel in San Francisco. Robert and
Lucile had children Robert Stevens Brewster b. in NY in 1921 who
served more than thirty years in the Marine Corp. Barbara Jean
Brewster b. 1923 in Portland Maine and Ruth Brewster b. in 1924
in Detroit Michigan. By the time Ruth was in grade school, the
family was living in California.
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