Brown, Lewis

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Lewis John Brown III

Lewis John Brown III was born on December 15, 1909, in Fort Riley, Kansas, to Anna Maria Fitzhugh Lee, age 37, and Lewis Brown Jr., age 33. In Rye his mother and stepfather Major General James G. Harbord lived on Dogwood Lane.

General Harbords first wife, Emma Yeatman Ovenshiw died in 1937 at their home on Dogwood Lane. He remarried his second wife, Mrs. Anna Lee Brown Harbord. She and her two children Lieut Colonel Lewis Brown and Mrs. Anna Brown Whiting all moved in at the Dogwood Lane homestead.
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Lewis’s mother was a widow of Colonel Lewis Brown, a cavalry officer who served in the same regiment with General Harbord. Lewis’s grandfather, General Fitzhugh Lee, was a Confederate officer and was in command of General Robert E. Lee’s cavalry in 1865 during the Civil War. He led the last charge of the Confederates on April 9 of the same year.

Subsequently, Fitzhugh Lee served as Governor of Virginia. In 1896 President Cleveland appointed him Consul General at Havana.

After serving as a major-general of the United States Volunteers during the Spanish-American War, he was named Military Governor of Havana and Pinar del Rio. He retired as a brigadier-general in the United States Army in 1901 and died in 1905.

Lewis’s great- great-grandfather was “Light Horse” Harry Lee and his great uncle was General Robert E. Lee.

Nationally known polo star, Lewis was a member of the champion Arizona Wildcat team of 1931, selected to play at the 1932 Los Angeles Olympic games and featured in the motion picture, ”This Sporting Age (1932).” He Captained the American team in 1933 when it defeated the British army team.

Lewis served as an officer in the U.S. Army during World War II. After the war he was an executive with NBC-TV.

Lewis John Brown III died on July 17, 1967, at his home in Monterey, California, at the age of 57, and was buried in Richmond City, Virginia.