The New York herald., 1920-01-25
Dr.. Cyrus Townsend Brady, Veteran of
Navy, Preacher and Author, Dies at SO
Wrote Many Novels and Plays-Con-
tinued Church Work
to the Last.

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books and plays. died of pneumonia yes
terday morning at his home. Edgecliff
Terrace. Park Hill. Yonkers.
He had been III only since last Thursday,
when he was stricken with a severe cold.
His condition was not considered serious
until symptoms of pneumonia developed
and a physician was summoned last Friday
night The patient sank rapidly until
death came al half-past seven o'clock. At
his bedside were his wife. Mrs Mary Bar
rett Brady and two daughters. Margaret
and Katherine. He leaves four other chill
dren, Cyrus Townsend Brady. Jr.. who Is
now in Buenos Ayres: Mrs. Theodore M.
Gleason, of Port Washington, L. l.. +; Major
Sidney G. Brady. T. S. A., who is stationed
in Louisville. Ky. and Esmond Barrett
Brady. student at Harvard.
Other surviving relatives are his brother,
Colonel Jasper T.. Brady, also writer of
note. who is with the Metro Film Corpor-
ation and Mrs. L. l. Ashbrook. Of
Mitchell. Neb.
The last public appearance of the
churchman and author was at the army
and navy dinner given to Admiral Sims at
the Waldorf-Astoria last Tuesday evening.
where he delivered an address.
Funeral Service Here.
Funeral services will be held at two
o'clock Tuesday afternoon in st. stephens
Protestant Church, Manhattan. where DIR.
Brady had been delivering a series of
Sunday afternoon sermons. The officiat-
ing clergymen will be the Rev DIR. Seagle.
of St stephens. and the Rev. DIR. John
Mark Ericsson. of st. Johns Protestant
Episcopal Church, Yonkers. Burial will
be in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, Tarrytown.
In four fields of human endeavor DR..
Brady had a strenuous career. AS a
naval officer, he learned fully of the ways
of the sea. In the railroad business he
saw the growth of the West. AS priest
in the Protestant Episcopal Church he
carried the Gospel into wild Western
mining camps and preached it to fashion
able congregations in New York. AS an
author and playwright in his recent years
he astonshed the literary world by his
prolific flow of absorbing fiction, and his
cultured essays and magazine articles.
His most recent venture was in the field
of scenario writing for motion picture
plays.
In his writing career DR.. Brady was
unique in that he was ore OF the first
authors to make use Of the phonogra ph
in the production of his works He often
related that his first book was produced
in this fashion. He dictated the story t,
a phonograph and later had steno-
grapher transcribe it from the records
Most of his subsequent works were COM
posed in the same way.
In Spanish American War.
In the Spanish-American War DR..
Brady asked to be reinstated as a line
officer in the navy. but instead became
chaplain of the First Pennsylvania volun-
teer infantry. He often remarked the
fact that very few other men had held
commissions in both army and navy. One
OF his BOOKS, Under Tops'ls and Tents.
published in 1901, concerned his experience
in both branches of the service
DR.. BrcdJ was born at Allegheny. Pa.
December 20. 1861. He was the son Of
Jasper Ewing Brady and Harriet Cora
Townsend. After preliminary education
he entered the Naval Academy at Anna
polls. Md, and was graduated in 1883. He
nid not continue long in the navy, how
ever. but entered the railroad business
and for several years was with the Mis-
souri, Pacific and the Union Pacific roads
While still in the railroad business he
took up the study of theology, under
Bishop Worthington, of Nebraska He
became deacon in 1889 and a priest in
1890. During the five years that followed
his energetic personality became widely
known throughout the West. He was
rector of many churches in Missouri and
Colorado. and soon became Archdeacon
of Kansas. In 1895 he left Kansas and
service was interrupted by the Spanish
American War, after which he accepted
the call to be rector of st. Paurs Church.
Overbrook. Philadelphia.
lie resigned this post in 1902 in order
to devote himself exclusively to the liter
airy work in which he was becoming
master. In is5 however. he accepted an
other CALL to the Trinity Church in Toledo.
Ohio From there he went. in 1909, to
Kansas City. Mo-. and in 1913 to the
Church of the Ascension. Mount Vernon.
y. Y. In 1911 he became assistant rector
of St. stephens Church, in West Sixty
ninth street Il post which nc held at the
time of his death.
Dr. Bradys literary work began with
his novel. Fer Love of Country" which
was first published in 1898. There fol-
lowed in n steady stream hardly six
months apart, series of remarka BILE
works of pure fiction and of historical
ricton. He also took up the writing of
children's books in great numbers.
MR.. WILLIAM EDWARDS SKARREN.
Mr.. William Edwards Skarren. for
nearly fifty years connected with the
decorating firm OF Potter e. Stymus. died
suddenly of heart disease Friday night at
the home of his daughter. Mrs. William
X. Post at No 466 Amity street, Flushing.
He was of French descent and was vet
eran OF the civil war. He was the son of
Jean Marie Skarren. who at the outbreak
of the civil war enlisted with his five sons
William Edward was the youngest of the
five and became a drummer boy at the
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