Richard H. Brokaw, Former Mayor of Bound Brook, Dies. Prominent Citizen, Just Honored for 50 Years Service As Official of Building Loan, Passes After Long Illness. Was in Drug Business and Banker. Bound Brook, New Jersey; May 21, 1937. Richard H. Brokaw, one of Bound Brook's lending citizens, died at his residence at 321 Church street at 2:30 a.m. today, following a long illness. The funeral will be held at the home at 3:30 p.m. on Monday with the Rev. Paul Newton Poling of the Presbyterian Church the Rev. Cordie J. Culp of New Brunswick, a former pastor of the local church, officiating. Interment will be in the Bound Brook Cemetery by Director James S. Taggart. Mr. Brokaw was born in a house that stood on Mountain avenue, a son of Henry and Phoebe Brokaw, and received his education in the local schools. His widow, Mrs. Minna H. Zimmerman, who survives, was a native of New Brunswick. Mr. Brokaw and a brother, Isaac, conducted a drug business on East Main street, near Maiden lane, for many years. The building was one of the many destroyed when are burned down the entire business section in the early 1880's. The business was continued when a new building was erected. Mr. Brokaw, as noted in the story in yesterday's Home News of the 60th Anniversary of the Bound Brook Building and Loan Association, was one of the incorporators of the organization and its treasurer from 1887 to his death. He was the secretary from 1887 to 1906. He took an early interest in town affairs and was a member of the Board of Commissioners at the time when Bound Brook was still a part of Bridgewater Township. He was also one of the first mayors after the town became a borough. He became a director of the Bound Brook Trust Company in 1916 and was a vice president of the institution at the time of his resignation in 1933. Mr. Brokaw was a past master of Eastern Star Lodge No. 105, F. and A. M., a member of the Commandery in Plainfield and the Mystic Shrine in Brooklyn. He was also a member and former officer in the Presbyterian Church.

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