Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1920-01-29
.DR. CYRUS 7. BRADY
DIES IN NEW 70 R K
Was One of the Most Prolific and
Versatile of Modern
Authors

! New York, Jan. 25.--The Rev. DIR. Cyrus
Townsend Brady, Episcopalan minister
and one Of the most prolific and versatile
of contemporary authors, died yesterday
morning of pneumonia, at his home, on
Edgecliffe Terrace, Park Hill, Yonkers.
His death followed n heavy cold con-
tracted in this city on Thursday.
! DR.. Brady was born in Allegheny. Pa.
I in 1861. His first ambition was for a
naval career. but he gave up the idea
soon after his graduation from Annapolis
! in 1888 For several years he worked for
the Missouri Pacific and Union Pacific
railroads. Then theology attracted him
and he studied for the church under
Bishop Worthington of Nebraska.
He was ordained priest of the
Protestant Episcopal Church in 1890 and
thereafter held many pastorates in var
ious parts of the Middle West and East.
lie was archdeacon of Kansas and after
wards held the same Office in Pennsyl-
vania. In the Spanish Wa ne was
chaplain. of the First Pennsylvania
Volunteers From 1905 TO 1869 he was
rector of Trinity Church in Toledo. Ohio.
resgning his position because the church
was specially Incorporated under the
State laws and was not under the canon
laws.
! From Toledo he went to st. Georges
Church in Kansas City. remaining there
until 1913 when he came to the Church
OF the Ascension in Mt Vernon. He
resigned the following year. his reasons
appearing in this paragraph of his letter
to the congregations:
The salary, even without necessary oe-
ductions for various church needs. is in
adequate to my needs Every salary |
have ever received has been that, and |
have always supplemented it by my pen.
J could ard would do so in this instance
without hesitation. but the parish is so
large and is growing so fast. there is so
much to do in it that it occupies plac-
4 tically all my time. leaving me little
leisure or strength for writing. I should
not have got along this year unless had
drawn heavily on my limited resources
to supplement my clerical income"
/ Or. Brady did not, however. entirely
sever his active connection with the Epis
copal Church. for he became assistant
minister Of st. stephens Church on West
Sixty-ninth street, this city. For a long
time also he had written a sermon every
Sunday for the New FORK Herald
1t was in 1893 that DR.. Brady first os-
sayed to complement his clerical income"
by writing. and from then during the en-
30 books, including novels boys stories,
biographies and histories Considering the
high general average of these works. their
quantity and variety and that the author
was at the same time an active clergy
man, this record has probably seldom
been surpassed.
His first book was called For Love
of Country Titles of other works In
doating their nature i'm most instances,
We're: stephen Decatur. Recollections of
a Missionary in the Great West" when
! Blades Are Out and Loves Afield."
i"Richard the BraZen." "Gethsemane and
After" ca religious book which he regard
ed as his besD. THE Island of Reeen-
eration." LAS the Sparks Fly Upward"
BY the World Forgot" When the Sun
stood Still
I Recently he had entered the moving
picture field. composing scenarios and
altering his novels for the screen. Last
fall he won a verdict for 5000 from Frank
A. Munsey as a result of his story. "a
child of God" being sold for film use
after Munsey's Magazine had bought II
from him for $40
The funeral will be held at St. ste
phens Church at two O'Clock Monda y
afternoon.