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^[[checkmark]] After his discharge from military service Brown took up the study of music and for some time led the Northport Brass Band, and also played [[strikethrough]] b [[/strikethrough] ^[[t]]rombone and cornet in the Kismet Temple Band. In 1924 he moved from the Boston area to Asbury Park, then to Red Bank, New Jersey, where reportedly he worked at the airport.
About 1937 he moved to Lancaster, Pennsylvania, where he again worked at the airport and there he bought a Piper J-3 Cub plane and resumed flying. At age 64, he received his C.A.A. license, and made one or more flying trips to Florida to attend the air races. With his Cub he developed a sport of throttling the engine and soaring along the ridges of the Pennsylvania mountains. As a result he enroleed as a student at the Schweitzer Gliding School at Elmira, New ^[[checkmark]] York, in 1946 and did some gliding and soaring at Harris Hill, ^[[the]] eastern site of the Soaring Society.
For a considerable time Brown made his home at the General Stutter Hotel in Lititz, Pennsylvania, and during World War II worked in nearby defense plants on military aircraft contract work.
In declining health, Brown returned to Boston in the spring of 1950 and later entered the Cambridge, Massachusetts, City Hospital where he passed away on December 23, 1950, at age 78. He was survived by his wife and was buried in the family mausoleum at Forest Hills, Massachusetts. He was a member of the Masonic Order, American Legion, Veterans of Foreign Wars, Spanish-American War Veterans, the South Boston Yacht Club, Army and Navy Club of Boston, the Early Birds and several scientific societies.
Flying Pioneer Harold H. Brown was one of that first group of sportsmen who took up flying for the fun of it. As such, he demonstrated the use of the [[strikethrough]] aero [[/strikethrough] airplane and helped to inspire public confidence in flying He had a very likable personality and hosts of friends everywhere.
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