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Lemuel de Bra
Lemuel Lawrence de Bra (December 10, 1884 – August 24, 1954) was an American author, mostly of short stories.
While working for the Bureau of Internal Revenue and later the Secret Service in California, de Bra wrote adventure stories for boys as Edmond Lawrence, verse as L. L. de Bra, and grown-up stories, often about the Chinese in America, as Lemuel L. de Bra and L. de Bra. He also wrote non-fiction, often related to agriculture. He made writing his main career about 1922, when he moved to Florida.
The son of Lemuel Manuel de Bra and his wife Eleanor Helen Brainerd, a native of Anson, Wisconsin, de Bra was born in 1884 in Benton, Ringgold County, Iowa. A sister called Nellie was born in Blairstown, Iowa, in 1886 and died in 1888, and a brother, Francis, was born in Blairstown in 1889. Their father died in 1890. Their mother had three sons from a previous marriage, one of whom died at Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin, in 1895, aged nineteen.
De Bra's grandfather, David Debra, born in Huntingdon, Pennsylvania, died in Iowa in April 1897, aged ninety. His ancestor Jacob Dubree, Debour, Dibry, Dippery, or Dibbery, had emigrated from France to Pennsylvania in the 18th century.
Lemuel de Bra arrived in San Francisco at six o'clock on the evening before the 1906 earthquake. He later found this experience of disaster and human emotions valuable.
For a year, de Bra worked as an instructor for Inter-State Correspondence Schools, then joined the Bureau of Internal Revenue, in which he spent twelve years. He travelled in California and Nevada, often investigating the opium trade and other narcotics operations. After marrying in 1909, he lived for several years in Alameda, California.
His first published works of fiction were short boys' adventure books, which appeared under the pen name of Edmond Lawrence, the first, Hazzard of West Point, in 1913.
In November 1915, it was reported that after hiding in a closed wagon in a paint shop on Presidio Avenue, San Francisco, Deputy Internal Revenue Agent L. L. de Bra, together with a Deputy United States Marshal, had arrested a man called Patten for selling a quantity of morphine for $90, equivalent to $2,864 in 2025.
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Lemuel de Bra
Lemuel Lawrence de Bra (December 10, 1884 – August 24, 1954) was an American author, mostly of short stories.
While working for the Bureau of Internal Revenue and later the Secret Service in California, de Bra wrote adventure stories for boys as Edmond Lawrence, verse as L. L. de Bra, and grown-up stories, often about the Chinese in America, as Lemuel L. de Bra and L. de Bra. He also wrote non-fiction, often related to agriculture. He made writing his main career about 1922, when he moved to Florida.
The son of Lemuel Manuel de Bra and his wife Eleanor Helen Brainerd, a native of Anson, Wisconsin, de Bra was born in 1884 in Benton, Ringgold County, Iowa. A sister called Nellie was born in Blairstown, Iowa, in 1886 and died in 1888, and a brother, Francis, was born in Blairstown in 1889. Their father died in 1890. Their mother had three sons from a previous marriage, one of whom died at Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin, in 1895, aged nineteen.
De Bra's grandfather, David Debra, born in Huntingdon, Pennsylvania, died in Iowa in April 1897, aged ninety. His ancestor Jacob Dubree, Debour, Dibry, Dippery, or Dibbery, had emigrated from France to Pennsylvania in the 18th century.
Lemuel de Bra arrived in San Francisco at six o'clock on the evening before the 1906 earthquake. He later found this experience of disaster and human emotions valuable.
For a year, de Bra worked as an instructor for Inter-State Correspondence Schools, then joined the Bureau of Internal Revenue, in which he spent twelve years. He travelled in California and Nevada, often investigating the opium trade and other narcotics operations. After marrying in 1909, he lived for several years in Alameda, California.
His first published works of fiction were short boys' adventure books, which appeared under the pen name of Edmond Lawrence, the first, Hazzard of West Point, in 1913.
In November 1915, it was reported that after hiding in a closed wagon in a paint shop on Presidio Avenue, San Francisco, Deputy Internal Revenue Agent L. L. de Bra, together with a Deputy United States Marshal, had arrested a man called Patten for selling a quantity of morphine for $90, equivalent to $2,864 in 2025.