Daniel Russell Brown

Daniel Russell Brown was an American politician and the 43rd Governor of Rhode Island.

D. Russell Brown was born in Bolton, Tolland County, Connecticut, United States, on March 28, 1848. He was son of Arba Harrison Brown and Harriet M. 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 , and Hope Caroline Brown . Hope was honeymooning on the British ocean liner RMS Carpathia in April 1912, when this vessel took on the survivors of the RMS Titanic.

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