A US citizen, born at Devil's Lake, MI, he was the son of John Edward Bruen and Bessie G. Bruan/Bruen, both parents of New York.
He was First Assistant Engineer on the steamship S.S. "Lake Fagundus" when he was taken ill and sent to Hospital Sao Sebastian in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, where he died a week later, aged 35, of lung disease.
He was survived by his wife (not named in the doc), of 8th Ave., New York City. He was a veteran of the US Marine Corp.
His mother, Mrs. M. J. McDermott, wrote a letter of inquiry in 1925 to ask the consulate for proof of death to give to his former wife, who had remarried. He had left a child, Mable Mae Bruen (b 1920), who was entitled to bonus money from the state of Illinois.
Information from 1900 US Census; application for Seaman's Protection Certificate, Port of New York, #9069, 1920; Report of the Death of an American Citizen; American Consular Service, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 21 Jan 1921. The cemetery in Rio de Janeiro was then known as Sao Francisco Xavier.
He was First Assistant Engineer on the steamship S.S. "Lake Fagundus" when he was taken ill and sent to Hospital Sao Sebastian in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, where he died a week later, aged 35, of lung disease.
He was survived by his wife (not named in the doc), of 8th Ave., New York City. He was a veteran of the US Marine Corp.
His mother, Mrs. M. J. McDermott, wrote a letter of inquiry in 1925 to ask the consulate for proof of death to give to his former wife, who had remarried. He had left a child, Mable Mae Bruen (b 1920), who was entitled to bonus money from the state of Illinois.
Information from 1900 US Census; application for Seaman's Protection Certificate, Port of New York, #9069, 1920; Report of the Death of an American Citizen; American Consular Service, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 21 Jan 1921. The cemetery in Rio de Janeiro was then known as Sao Francisco Xavier.
A US citizen, born at Devil's Lake, MI, he was the son of John Edward Bruen and Bessie G. Bruan/Bruen, both parents of New York.
He was First Assistant Engineer on the steamship S.S. "Lake Fagundus" when he was taken ill and sent to Hospital Sao Sebastian in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, where he died a week later, aged 35, of lung disease.
He was survived by his wife (not named in the doc), of 8th Ave., New York City. He was a veteran of the US Marine Corp.
His mother, Mrs. M. J. McDermott, wrote a letter of inquiry in 1925 to ask the consulate for proof of death to give to his former wife, who had remarried. He had left a child, Mable Mae Bruen (b 1920), who was entitled to bonus money from the state of Illinois.
Information from 1900 US Census; application for Seaman's Protection Certificate, Port of New York, #9069, 1920; Report of the Death of an American Citizen; American Consular Service, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 21 Jan 1921. The cemetery in Rio de Janeiro was then known as Sao Francisco Xavier.
He was First Assistant Engineer on the steamship S.S. "Lake Fagundus" when he was taken ill and sent to Hospital Sao Sebastian in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, where he died a week later, aged 35, of lung disease.
He was survived by his wife (not named in the doc), of 8th Ave., New York City. He was a veteran of the US Marine Corp.
His mother, Mrs. M. J. McDermott, wrote a letter of inquiry in 1925 to ask the consulate for proof of death to give to his former wife, who had remarried. He had left a child, Mable Mae Bruen (b 1920), who was entitled to bonus money from the state of Illinois.
Information from 1900 US Census; application for Seaman's Protection Certificate, Port of New York, #9069, 1920; Report of the Death of an American Citizen; American Consular Service, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 21 Jan 1921. The cemetery in Rio de Janeiro was then known as Sao Francisco Xavier.
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