New-York tribune., 1920-01-25
Cyrus t. Brady, Ill
But 2 Days, Dies;
Noted as Author
Nlidshipman, Railroad Man.
Novelist and Clergyman,
He Had Life Of Activity.
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Tie mao Lie OF Activity:
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The Rev. DR.. Cyrus Townsend Brady
died yesterday morning at his home on
tdgeclif Terrace, Park Hill, Yonkers.
tie had been i'll with pneumonia since
Thursday His wife and two daugh-
ters were with him at his death. His
funeral will be held on Tuesday after
noon at o'clock at st. Stephens Prot
estant Episcopal Church, in West
SlXty-nnth Street, New York, where
ne had been delivering series of Sun
day afternoon sermons, and the inter
ment will be in Sleepy Hollow Gene
terry, Tarrytown.
A Varied and Active Life
Mldshipman, railroad man. clergy
man, novelist and playwright, Cyrus
townsend Brady lived life as varied
IN lts scenes and as strenuous in its
action as that of one of the heroes of
ms many stirring works of fiction. His
immense activity IS indicated in the
fact that while the period of his author
snip comprised little more than a score
OF years, it was productive of more
than threescore published volumes.
From 1898 to 1917 his bibliopraphv
comprised sXty-siX original titles-a
record probably not approximated by
any other writer of comparable merit.
lie was born at Allegheny, Pa, on
December 20, 1861, the son of Jasper
Ewing and Harriet Cora (TownsendD
iB,rady, and was graduated from the
United States Naval Academy at An
napohs in 1888. For several wears he
was employed on the Missouri Pacific
and Union Pacific railroads. Then he
STUDIED Tor the ministry under Bishop
Worthlngton (P. E), of Nebraska. and
IN 1889 became a deacon and in 1880 q
priest of the Protestant Episcopal
Church. He served as rector Of several
churches in Missouri and Colorado and
as Arch deacon of Kansas until 1895.
when he came East and was Arch
deacon OF Phlladelphia until 1899 For
the next three years he was rector of
st. Pauls Church, Overbrook, Phila-
delphia; from 1902 to 1905 he was en-
gagged in literary work; then for four
years rector of Trinity Church, Toledo;
ior four years rector of st. Georges,
Kansas City, Mo-; for a year rector Of
the Church of the Ascension, Mount
Vernon, n. Y, and since 1914 assistant
minister of st. Stephens. in this city.
incidentally, he was chaplain Of the
lst Pennsy sylvania Volunteers in the
Spanish war.
A Patriotic Novelist
1t was apparently the Spanish war
that inspired him to become a fiction
writer. In that year his first novel was
written and published. For Love Of
Country and it was followed by others
IN rapid and continuous succession,
mostly dealing with the nations wars
and its naval and military heroes and
instinct with robust anl militant pa
triotism. His Annapolis training led
nm especially to naval themes, though
he was 10y no means couiincl to thcm.
some @ ms 5cs, works We're .ll,t0r4c4l
romances in the best sense of the term
presenting truthiully, thouen in The
guise Of fiction, the sdlicu. fact and
circumstances Of great epl oaas and
passages i'll the annals OF Am, i,a
NOR cld he contine himself 10 ictioN
but wrote number of directly hstor-
zeal and biographical works, Including
"Stephen Decatur" "Comm odorc PAU
Jones" "The True Aadrew jackson"
and THE Conquest Of the Southwest"
4 few Of his novels We're Tree from he
militant motive and dealt solely Mith
the sentiments OF love and the prob
'ema Of sex and Of society. I'm addl-
tlon 10 his siNty-siN published volumes
Dr. Brady wrote many snort storie and
number OF plays while several Of his
novels We're dramatizel and filmed"
lor moving picture production
Against "yotes for Women"
DR.. Brady ho received the degree at
LII. =. from st. johns College, Annap-
OILS, in l.O2) took keen and active
interest in social and civic as well as
patriotic subjects and was in his at
ttudc toward them an intere ting COM
pound OF conservative and radical. As
late as 1915 he was an outspoNen op-
ponent OF woman suffrage. goine so Tar
As to declare in a sermon at st. Stoph-
cn's that u give women The ballot
wouio be an insult to Cod and 60 man
Before that ne bad tod the Women
league ior Political tdccation ,aat the
average woman to-day wanted No o.
vote hut husband. In the early part
Of the " orld War he vas solictous
that the United States should keep cut
Of the struggle but later he was un-
timing in his efforts to rouse the public
to the most aggressive prosecution of
the war, and WIS particularly severe
against "hyphenated Americans," luke
warm patriots and alien propagandists.
declaring that many Of the latter should
be informed not at Fort Oglethorpe but
in their coffins.
DR.. Brady in 1902 settled himself in
fine house in the Ditmas Park region
of Brooklyn, which he occupied until
his removal to Toledo in 1905. In 1914
be built the mansion at Park Ilil.
Yonkcrs which was his home for the
remainder of his life. He was hrst
married to Clarissa Sidney Guthrie.
who died in 1890. His second wife. who
survives him, was Miss Mary Barrett.
He is survived also by six children:
Cyrus Townsend Brady jr. Of Buenos
Ayres. Argentina; Major Sidney G..
Brady, L. S. A., now stationed at Louis
Vile, KY; Esmond Barrett Brady,
student at Harvard University; Mrs.
Theodore NJ. Gleason, of Port Wash
ington, Long Island. and the Misses
Margaret NJ. and Katherine Brady, who
still share the parental home at Yonk-
crs.