David Robinson Crocker Brown Jr. ("Darcy") died on March 10 at the age of 95.
Darcy was the son of David R. C. Brown, an Aspen pioneer, and Ruth McNutt, daughter of a prominent San Francisco physician. Darcy dropped the Jr. from his name some years after his father's death in 1930. D.R.C. Sr. came to Aspen in 1880 where he purchased several silver mines and established the first water, power and electric companies in Aspen. Ruth McNutt and D.R.C. Sr. were married in Paris in 1907 after meeting on a ship and traveling by horseback over the Andes to avoid passage around South America's Cape Horn.
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