Leete Renick Brown

Biography

Leete Renick Brown was born on 6 July, 1890, at Ottawa, Ohio, the son of John W. and Jennie R Brown. His father was a local dry goods merchant in Ottawa. As a young man Brown worked in his home town as a car salesman before enlisting in the US Army on 11 December, 1917, where he later served overseas as a corporal with the American Expeditionary Forces from 1 August, 1918 to 23 December, 1918. After the war Brown relocated to Los Angeles where he worked in adverting before breaking into the movies. Leete Renick Brown passed away on 31 October, 1957 at Queen of Angels Hospital in Los Angeles. He was survived by two sisters in Ohio and one in Michigan.