A One-Name Study for the BARNUM/BARNHAM Surname
Robert H. Barnum was a 1933 graduate of the US Naval Academy and a rear admiral in the U. S. Navy.
The New York Times, August 15, 1977. Rear Adm. Robert Barnum, Former Navy League Head.
Rear Adm. Robert H. Barnum, a retired Reserve officer and past president of the Navy League, drowned Thursday near his home in Saint Michaels, Md. He was 66 years old. [N.B., SSDI gives a birth date of October 6, 1910].
Admiral Barnum, a native of Brooklyn and graduate of Rockville Centre, L.I., High School, was commissioned on graduation from the Naval Academy in 1933. He transferred to the Reserve in 1934 when he joined the Tidewater Oil Company. From 1939 to 1949, except for a tour of duty in World War II as assistant naval attaché in Santiago, Chile, he was general manager and president of William Hunt & Company, industrial engineers, in New York and China.
In 1949 he joined the United States Steel Export Company, and from 1950 until his retirement in 1968 he was an assistant to successive presidents of the United States Steel Corporation. He lived in Scarsdale, N.Y.
Admiral Barnum headed the intelligence reserve division of the Third Naval District. He was president of the New York State and New York City chapters of the Navy League before serving as national president in 1963-65.
Surviving are his wife, the former Audrey Watson; two daughters, Sandra Nygaard of Alameda, Calif., and Patricia Rich of Chappaqua, N.Y., and three grandchildren.
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