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crat.

bank of Jasper, Ind. Brevard, Ephraim, patriot, physician, surgeon, was born about 1750. He was the author of the Mecklenburg declaration of independence. In 1775 he was clerk of the convention held in Charlotte, Mecklenburg county; and as one of the committee to prepare resolutions, produced the famous document by which they anticipated by more than a year the declaration by congress. When the British invaded the southern states he entered the continental army as a surgeon; and was taken prisoner at Charleston in 1780. He died about 1783 in Charlotte, N.C. Brevard, Joseph, congressman, was born in Iredell county, N.C. In 1819-31 he was a representative to the sixteenth congress from South Carolina. He died Oct. 11, 1821, in chants'

Camden,

Keene, N.Y. In connection with others he organized the Pennsylvania rock oil company, the pioneer petroleum enterprise. He then settled at Westfield, N.Y. ; was a representative in the state legislature in 1873-74; was

government director of the Union pacific railroad in 1874-78; and manager of the state insane asylum at Buffalo in 1881-82.

He was

for ten years president of the First national bank o4 Westfield. In 1883-85 he was a representative from New York to the forty-eighth congress as a republican. He died July 29, 1892, in Westfield, N.Y.

Brewer, David Josiah, lawyer, jurist, was born June 20, 1837, in Smyrna, Asia Minor; and is the son of Rev. Josiah Brewer and Emilia A. Field, siste^ of David Dudley, Cyprus

born in 1791.

in

Rye, N.Y.

James Carson,

historian, author, was born July 10, 1818, in New York City. In 1863-73 he was president of the Long Island historical society. He was the author of Verrazano, the Navigator. He died Dec. 7, 1887, in Brooklyn, N.Y. Brevoort, James Renwick, painter, artist, was born July 20, 1832, in Westchester, N.Y. In 1863 he became a member of the national academy of design. He is very successful in the treatment of American landscape in a low tone of color, this being his favorite line of work. Among his pictures are Scene in Holland ; Lake of Como ; Storm on English

Brevoort,

Moor;

May

Morning, Lake Como;

New

Eng-

land Scene; Morning in Early Winter; The Wild November Comes at Last; Windy Evening on the Moors ; Windy Day on a Moor. Brewer, Abraham T., soldier, lawyer, author,

was born

unty, Ohio.

He

Sept. 20, 1841, in Monroe coserved three years during the

civil war in the sixty-first regiment Pennsylvania volunteers. He is the author of Ohio Corporations; and The Jury System. Brewer, Daniel Chauncey, lawyer, author, poet, was born Sept. 14, 1861, in Boston, Mass. Since 1888 he has been in the active practice of law in Boston, Mass.; and has been a trustee, director and officer in public

service

and religious corporations. He

is

the

author of numerous articles on International Law; and a volume of poems entitled Madeline.

Brewer, Francis, Beattie, pioneer, physiccongressman, was born Oct. 8, 1820, in

ian,

W. and

Justice

Stephen J. Field; and his father was an early missionary to Tur-

S.C.

Brevoort, Henry, landed proprietor, was He inherited a large landed estate in Manhattan island, which became extremely valuable as the city increased in population. He was of literary taste and the life-long friend of Washington Irving, with whom he traveled in Europe and corresponded for half a century. He removed in early life to Yonkers; but returned to New York City and was a member of the common council for many years. He died April 11, 1874,

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He graduated from Yale college in 1856; and from the Albany law school in

key.

1858. He established himself in his profession at Leavenworth in 1859, where he resided until he removed to Washington to enter upon his present duties. In 1861 he was ap-

pointed United States commissioner; in 1862-65 he was judge of the probate and criminal courts of Leavenwortii county, Kan.; in 1865-69 was judge of the district court; and was county attorney at Leavenworth. In 1870 he was elected a justice of the supreme court of Kansas; and re-elected in 1876 and 1882. In 1884 he was appointed judge of the circuit court of the United States for the eighth district. Since 1889 he has been an associate justice of the United States supreme court at Washington, D.C. Brewer, Gardner, merchant, philanthropist, was born in 1806 in Boston, Mass. He accumulated a fortune which was estimated at several millions of dollars. He used his large wealth liberally for the public good; and shortly before his death gave to the city of Boston a beautiful fountain. He died Sept. -

30, 1874, in

Newport,

R.I.

Brewer, John Hart, manufacturer, congressman, was born March 29, 1844, in Hunterdon county, N.J. He was engaged in the manufacture of pottery. He was a member of the state house of representatives in 1876. In 1881-85 he was a representative from New Jersey to the forty-seventh and forty-eighth congress as a republican. He died in 1900 in Trenton, N.J. Brewer, John Hyatt, organist, musician, composer, was born Jan. 18, 1856, in Brooklyn, N.Y. In 1899-1906 he was professor of music in Adelphia college. Since 1881 he has been organist at the Lafayette avenue baptist church of Brooklyn, N.Y. He has com-