Robert C. Vance
Robert Cummings Vance (February 21, 1894 – November 4, 1959) was a Connecticut newspaper publisher and philanthropist. Background He was the son of Robert Johnstone Vance, founder and publisher of the New Britain Herald from 1881 until his death in 1902. During his tenure as publisher, the elder Vance won a term in the U.S. Congress, and was later elected mayor of New Britain. Robert C. Vance’s mother, Mathilda O'Connor Vance, became publisher of the Herald in 1904 A New Britain native, Robert C. Vance attended New Britain High School and graduated from Yale College in 1918. He married Arlene-Dorothy Story on July 8, 1928. Military service In 1917, during World War I, he served the French Army as an ambulance driver until the US entered the war, at which time he joined the US Army, returning to the US in 1918. For the remainder of his life, he was “active in national, state, and local veterans’ affairs and, from time to time has been honored for this activity.” , According to an editorial which ran in the Hartford Courant after his death, “Mr. Vance will be remembered, too, for his interest in veterans' affairs. It began in Paris, when