Kenneth LeRoy BRERETON

1908 - 1958  (49 years)

• Name	Kenneth LeRoy BRERETON
  Born	31 Jul 1908	New Haven, Connecticut
  Gender	Male
  Died	18 Apr 1958	New York, New York
  Buried	Beaverdale Memorial Park, New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut
  Person ID	I534	Zentmeyer Main Tree
  Last Modified	15 Nov 2020

  
  

• Notes

  The public record for Kenneth LeRoy Brereton is a colorful one. He was recorded in the 1910 US Census in the home of his parents, Archibald and Mary Brereton. In the 1920 US Census, at age 11, he was a 'boarder' at the home of Kate Stackpole, with no reference to his parents. He had a busy 1927, he was listed both as a student in Brookline Massachusetts, and also as a passenger on a voyage from Copenhagen to New York. In 1929 he married Loretta M. LaPointe in Rye, New York. In the 1930 US Census, he was living at the home of his mother and stepfather in North Branford, and claimed to be working as an 'aircraft production manager.' He was listed as married, but neither Loretta nor any alternative wife were noted at that address. According to the 1937 newspaper articles reporting his marriage to Dorothy Dudley, Kenneth claimed to be a graduate Norwich Military Academy and of Yale University, employed as a 'manufacturing chemist' at Brereton Laboratories in New Haven. A 1939 newsletter for Norwich Military Academy, renamed Norwich University, listed a change of address for him to Northport Conn., c/o Brereton Laboratories. But Northport was actually in New York, so more likely Northford Connecticut, the place Kenneth listed on his WWII draft registration. In the 1940 US Census he was listed as divorced, living once again with with his mother and stepfather in North Branford, working as a Rural US Mail Carrier. (his mother was a Postmistress there) He was listed in the 1941 New Haven Directory as an Insurance Agent, with new wife Eleanor, née Eva Francis Watts. In February of 1948 he married Lucille Rich, a Broadway dancer, during his tenure as the Assistant Manager of the Hotel Belvedere in New York. A Google query returns only two results for "Brereton Laboratories," they are both noted above, so likely an non-existent enterprise, and the Yale University Library Manuscripts and Archives staff confirmed Brereton was never a student there. The staff at Norwich University confirmed that Brereton was in fact a student there, but they could not confirm his graduation.

  
  

Father	Archibald BRERETON,   b. Abt 1889, Connecticut
Mother	Grace M. TYLER,   b. Abt 1892, Connecticut ,   d. 25 Sep 1956, North Branford, New Haven, Connecticut  (Age ~ 64 years)
Married	Abt 1908
Family ID	F1253	Group Sheet




Family 1	Loretta M. LAPOINTE
Married	22 Jun 1929	Rye, Westchester, New York
Photos		1929 Marriage Record in Rye, New York. Kenneth married Loretta M. LaPointe
Last Modified	15 May 2018
Family ID	F1254	Group Sheet




Family 2	Dorothy Anne DUDLEY,   b. 11 Jan 1912, Charleston, Coles, Illinois ,   d. 5 Nov 2008, Belmont, San Mateo, California  (Age 96 years)
Married	20 Feb 1937	Charleston, Coles, Illinois
Photos		Newspaper articles reporting the Dudley - Brereton wedding, 20 Feb 1937 In the Charleston, Illinois Journal-Gazette, and the Decatur, Illinois Herald. (Out of town guests from Mattoon came from twelve miles away)
Last Modified	13 May 2018
Family ID	F581	Group Sheet




Family 3	Eva Frances WATTS,   b. 17 Apr 1916, Wales, Cavalier, North Dakota ,   d. 28 Jul 1990, North Conway, Carroll, New Hampshire  (Age 74 years)
Married	Abt 1941
Children	1. Jeffrey BRERETON,   b. 20 Jan 1942, New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut ,   d. 29 Nov 1996, Erie, Erie, Pennsylvania  (Age 54 years)   2. Susan BRERETON
Photos		Business Directory, New Haven 1941 Listing both Kenneth L. Brereton and his wife Eleanor
Last Modified	14 May 2020
Family ID	F582	Group Sheet




Family 4	Lucille RICH,   b. Abt 1918, Pennsylvania
Married	Feb 1948	Newark, Essex, New Jersey
Photos		Wedding Announcement for Kenneth Brereton and Lucille Rich Lucille was a Broadway dancer of some renown.
		Lucille Rich, dancer Photo courtesy Benjamin Barbour
Last Modified	14 May 2020
Family ID	F1451	Group Sheet




• Photos » Slide Show		Leroy K. Brereton, Student, Brookline Massachusetts 1927 In W.A. Greenough Co.'s 1927 Brookline Directory
  		Nineteen-year-old Le Roi K. Brereton sailed from Copenhagen to New York on 13 Sep 1927 on the SS United States. Le Roi K. Brereton shared a birth date and place with Kenneth Leroy Brereton.
  		1939 Newsletter from Norwich Military Academy, renamed Norwich University Showing a change of address for Leroy K. Brereton to Northport, c/o Brereton Laboratories. (likely Northford -Ed)
  		World War II Draft Registration Card for Kenneth LeRoy Brereton Listed his employer as Mutual Benefit Health and Accident Association, subsequently known as Mutual of Omaha
  		Kenneth Brereton, Assistant Manager, Hotel Belvedere New York 1949 This photo is from an article about the Hotel Bevedere in the Saturday Evening Post, 15 Jan 1949 Photo courtesy Benjamin Barbour
  		Likely death Record for Kenneth Brereton In New York, 18 Apr 1958. Census records do not reveal any other candidate for the Kenneth Brereton in this death record, whose birth year matches the Kenneth Brereton born in New Haven.
  		Actual Death Notice for Kenneth Brereton We subsequently came across this notice, which confirms the information in the record above.
  		Location of Kenneth Brereton's grave Kenneth was buried in an unmarked grave in the Beaverdale Memorial Park, New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut