Robert Livingston Beeckman

Robert Livingston Beeckman (April 15, 1866 – January 21, 1935)[2] was an American stockbroker, sportsman, and politician who served as the 52nd Governor of Rhode Island."[16] He visited Rhode Island troops on the battlefield in France and pushed for state appropriations to provide for dependent families of servicemen.[17] Acting on the advice of superintendent of health Charles V. Chapin, Beeckman delayed issuing a closure order until October 6.[21] After his first wife's death in 1920, he remarried Edna (née Marston) Burke at Bar Harbor, Maine, in September 1923.Edna, who was divorced from Oscar Meech Burke, was the daughter of Edwin Sprague Marston, the former president and chairman of the board of directors of the Farmers' Loan & Trust Company (predecessor firm of Citigroup), and Emma Bennett (née Doty) Marston.[23] In 1911, while staying at the Ritz Hotel in Paris during a tour of France, "a drunken man" lurched in front of Beeckman and his wife's automobile."The drunken man in the roadway was killed on the spot," Beeckman broke his arm and cut his head, and despite being thrown ten feet from the car, his wife was not injured.[a][29] The Beeckman's also owned a winter home in Providence, Rhode Island, which was damaged by a fire in January 1912.
The gravesite of Robert Livingston Beeckman
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