Robert Charles Saunders was born in 1889 in Nassau, Bahamas to Richardson Saunders and Margaret Perpall. He was baptized at St. Matthew's Anglican Church, Nassau, 21 November 1889.
With his mother, his younger sister, Madge, and his cousin, Esther Kemp, he moved to New York several years after the death of his father. His brother Richardson Saunders, Jr. had moved to New York after he completed his education in Troy, NY.
Robert Saunders married Olive Coffin Long, 7 December 1911 in New York, New York. The couple had a son, Edward Long Saunders, born 21 May 1920.
Robert Saunders started his career with the Manhattan real estate firm of Horace S. Ely Company. He then organized Thayer, Saunders, and Co. which was merged with H. Nelson Flanagan & Co. in 1930. He established a branch in Yonkers, and was its president. He was also a chairman of the Board of Review of the Yonkers Tax Department, and a vice chairman of the Housing Authority.
Robert Charles Saunders died in Yonkers, Westchester County, New York 9 April 1959 at 69 years of age.
Bahamas Births, 1850-1891, 1889. Salt Lake City, Utah: FamilySearch, 2013. FHL Film Number: 222947. Reference: page 102.
U.S., World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918 for Robert Charles Saunders, New York, Manhattan City, 129, Draft Card, S.
New York, Passenger Lists, 1820-1957 for Robert C Saunders, Roll T715, 1897-1957, 3001- 4000, Roll 3579.
Robert C Saunders in the New York, New York, Marriage Index 1866-1937, Manhattan, 7 December 1911.
New York, State and Federal Naturalization Records, 1794-1940 for Robert Charles Saunders, District Court, Southern Distict, Vols 300-301, 1925, Certificates 167001-168850.
1930 United States Federal Census for Robert C Saunders, New York, Bronx, Bronx (Districts 501-750), District 0623.
Herald Statesman (Yonkers, New York), 10 April 1959.
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