Brent Skinner Drane was born 1881 in Edenton, Chowan County, NC the eldest of 7 known surviving children (4 boys/3 girls) born to Rev. Robert Brent Drane II, rector at the historic St. Pauls' Episcopal Church in Edenton (1876-1932), and his wife, Mariah Louisa Warren Skinner.
He was the paternal grandson of Rev. Robert Brent Drane I of Essex, MA (later of Edenton), who married Catherine C. Parker of Tarboro, Edgecombe Co, and was daughter of wealth planter and merchant, Theophilus Parker. He was the maternal grandson of CSA Major Tristim Lowther Skinner and Eliza Fisk Harwood of Edenton.
As the eldest son of two generations of Episcopal ministers, Brent was no doubt expected to follow in his father and grandfather's footsteps, but instead, the young man developed a love of the sciences and pursued a career in Engineering graduating for UNC Chapel Hill, and later served as President of the Alumni Association (c. 1912). His younger brother, Frederick Drane, did become a Missionary.
On December 29, 1908, the 27-year old married 23-year old Florence Thomas, originally from Wilmington, NC, but now from Charlotte, NC, where her parents had relocated.
The newlyweds set up housekeeping in Charlotte, where the couple would become parents to 3 known children: Jacquelin Drane (1910-2004), Lt. Robert Brent Drane (1913-1944) and Maria Drane (1915).
Brent's big break came around 1911 when eveloper Edward Dilworth Latta embarked on an expansion of his now historic Dilworth suburb in Charlotte, begun two decades earlier. Latta hired Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr., who had done so much for a similar "trolly-car" suburb in Baltimore. The first thing the Olmsted Brothers did was to direct Latta to hire a local engineering firm to meticulously survey and map the existing topography and conditions. Brent Skinner Drane was selected. The resulting drawing by Charlotte's Holmes Blair and Brent Drane is still on file at the Olmsted National Historic Site in the Boston suburb of Brookline, Massachusetts. 33 The immense drawing, more than five by six feet in size, scaled 100 feet to the inch, provides a fascinatingly precise look at what Latta Park and the eastern edge of old Dilworth were like before expansion.
Drane became successful and respected in his field. The family later relocated to Chapel Hill, NC, where Brent served as Director of the North Carolina Geological and Economic Survey, and authored a book with Jaspar Stuckey, "The Mineral Industry in North Carolina from 1918 to 1923".
Brent Skinner Drane died in 1948 at age 67. His wife of 40 years survived him 25 years, passing in 1973 at age 87.
Brent's son, Navy Lt. Robert Brent Drane was lost in action in the Pacific U.S. Submarine "Scorpion". His eldest daughter, Jacquelin, married Pembrook Nash of Tarboro, Edgecombe County, and is buried there.
He was the paternal grandson of Rev. Robert Brent Drane I of Essex, MA (later of Edenton), who married Catherine C. Parker of Tarboro, Edgecombe Co, and was daughter of wealth planter and merchant, Theophilus Parker. He was the maternal grandson of CSA Major Tristim Lowther Skinner and Eliza Fisk Harwood of Edenton.
As the eldest son of two generations of Episcopal ministers, Brent was no doubt expected to follow in his father and grandfather's footsteps, but instead, the young man developed a love of the sciences and pursued a career in Engineering graduating for UNC Chapel Hill, and later served as President of the Alumni Association (c. 1912). His younger brother, Frederick Drane, did become a Missionary.
On December 29, 1908, the 27-year old married 23-year old Florence Thomas, originally from Wilmington, NC, but now from Charlotte, NC, where her parents had relocated.
The newlyweds set up housekeeping in Charlotte, where the couple would become parents to 3 known children: Jacquelin Drane (1910-2004), Lt. Robert Brent Drane (1913-1944) and Maria Drane (1915).
Brent's big break came around 1911 when eveloper Edward Dilworth Latta embarked on an expansion of his now historic Dilworth suburb in Charlotte, begun two decades earlier. Latta hired Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr., who had done so much for a similar "trolly-car" suburb in Baltimore. The first thing the Olmsted Brothers did was to direct Latta to hire a local engineering firm to meticulously survey and map the existing topography and conditions. Brent Skinner Drane was selected. The resulting drawing by Charlotte's Holmes Blair and Brent Drane is still on file at the Olmsted National Historic Site in the Boston suburb of Brookline, Massachusetts. 33 The immense drawing, more than five by six feet in size, scaled 100 feet to the inch, provides a fascinatingly precise look at what Latta Park and the eastern edge of old Dilworth were like before expansion.
Drane became successful and respected in his field. The family later relocated to Chapel Hill, NC, where Brent served as Director of the North Carolina Geological and Economic Survey, and authored a book with Jaspar Stuckey, "The Mineral Industry in North Carolina from 1918 to 1923".
Brent Skinner Drane died in 1948 at age 67. His wife of 40 years survived him 25 years, passing in 1973 at age 87.
Brent's son, Navy Lt. Robert Brent Drane was lost in action in the Pacific U.S. Submarine "Scorpion". His eldest daughter, Jacquelin, married Pembrook Nash of Tarboro, Edgecombe County, and is buried there.
Brent Skinner Drane was born 1881 in Edenton, Chowan County, NC the eldest of 7 known surviving children (4 boys/3 girls) born to Rev. Robert Brent Drane II, rector at the historic St. Pauls' Episcopal Church in Edenton (1876-1932), and his wife, Mariah Louisa Warren Skinner.
He was the paternal grandson of Rev. Robert Brent Drane I of Essex, MA (later of Edenton), who married Catherine C. Parker of Tarboro, Edgecombe Co, and was daughter of wealth planter and merchant, Theophilus Parker. He was the maternal grandson of CSA Major Tristim Lowther Skinner and Eliza Fisk Harwood of Edenton.
As the eldest son of two generations of Episcopal ministers, Brent was no doubt expected to follow in his father and grandfather's footsteps, but instead, the young man developed a love of the sciences and pursued a career in Engineering graduating for UNC Chapel Hill, and later served as President of the Alumni Association (c. 1912). His younger brother, Frederick Drane, did become a Missionary.
On December 29, 1908, the 27-year old married 23-year old Florence Thomas, originally from Wilmington, NC, but now from Charlotte, NC, where her parents had relocated.
The newlyweds set up housekeeping in Charlotte, where the couple would become parents to 3 known children: Jacquelin Drane (1910-2004), Lt. Robert Brent Drane (1913-1944) and Maria Drane (1915).
Brent's big break came around 1911 when eveloper Edward Dilworth Latta embarked on an expansion of his now historic Dilworth suburb in Charlotte, begun two decades earlier. Latta hired Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr., who had done so much for a similar "trolly-car" suburb in Baltimore. The first thing the Olmsted Brothers did was to direct Latta to hire a local engineering firm to meticulously survey and map the existing topography and conditions. Brent Skinner Drane was selected. The resulting drawing by Charlotte's Holmes Blair and Brent Drane is still on file at the Olmsted National Historic Site in the Boston suburb of Brookline, Massachusetts. 33 The immense drawing, more than five by six feet in size, scaled 100 feet to the inch, provides a fascinatingly precise look at what Latta Park and the eastern edge of old Dilworth were like before expansion.
Drane became successful and respected in his field. The family later relocated to Chapel Hill, NC, where Brent served as Director of the North Carolina Geological and Economic Survey, and authored a book with Jaspar Stuckey, "The Mineral Industry in North Carolina from 1918 to 1923".
Brent Skinner Drane died in 1948 at age 67. His wife of 40 years survived him 25 years, passing in 1973 at age 87.
Brent's son, Navy Lt. Robert Brent Drane was lost in action in the Pacific U.S. Submarine "Scorpion". His eldest daughter, Jacquelin, married Pembrook Nash of Tarboro, Edgecombe County, and is buried there.
He was the paternal grandson of Rev. Robert Brent Drane I of Essex, MA (later of Edenton), who married Catherine C. Parker of Tarboro, Edgecombe Co, and was daughter of wealth planter and merchant, Theophilus Parker. He was the maternal grandson of CSA Major Tristim Lowther Skinner and Eliza Fisk Harwood of Edenton.
As the eldest son of two generations of Episcopal ministers, Brent was no doubt expected to follow in his father and grandfather's footsteps, but instead, the young man developed a love of the sciences and pursued a career in Engineering graduating for UNC Chapel Hill, and later served as President of the Alumni Association (c. 1912). His younger brother, Frederick Drane, did become a Missionary.
On December 29, 1908, the 27-year old married 23-year old Florence Thomas, originally from Wilmington, NC, but now from Charlotte, NC, where her parents had relocated.
The newlyweds set up housekeeping in Charlotte, where the couple would become parents to 3 known children: Jacquelin Drane (1910-2004), Lt. Robert Brent Drane (1913-1944) and Maria Drane (1915).
Brent's big break came around 1911 when eveloper Edward Dilworth Latta embarked on an expansion of his now historic Dilworth suburb in Charlotte, begun two decades earlier. Latta hired Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr., who had done so much for a similar "trolly-car" suburb in Baltimore. The first thing the Olmsted Brothers did was to direct Latta to hire a local engineering firm to meticulously survey and map the existing topography and conditions. Brent Skinner Drane was selected. The resulting drawing by Charlotte's Holmes Blair and Brent Drane is still on file at the Olmsted National Historic Site in the Boston suburb of Brookline, Massachusetts. 33 The immense drawing, more than five by six feet in size, scaled 100 feet to the inch, provides a fascinatingly precise look at what Latta Park and the eastern edge of old Dilworth were like before expansion.
Drane became successful and respected in his field. The family later relocated to Chapel Hill, NC, where Brent served as Director of the North Carolina Geological and Economic Survey, and authored a book with Jaspar Stuckey, "The Mineral Industry in North Carolina from 1918 to 1923".
Brent Skinner Drane died in 1948 at age 67. His wife of 40 years survived him 25 years, passing in 1973 at age 87.
Brent's son, Navy Lt. Robert Brent Drane was lost in action in the Pacific U.S. Submarine "Scorpion". His eldest daughter, Jacquelin, married Pembrook Nash of Tarboro, Edgecombe County, and is buried there.
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