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posed songs, duets, quartets, anthems, glees, choruses; and pieces for organ, piano and strings. He is the composer of cantatas entitled The Holy Night; The Birth of Love; Hesperus; Sea and the Moon; Herald of Spring; and Twilight Pictures. Brewer, Josiah, missionary, author, was born in 1796 in Berkshire, Mass. He was one of the first to volunteer as a missionary to

Turkey

for the

American board. He was the

author of Residence in Constantinople; and Patmos and the Seven Churches of Asia. He died Nov. 19, 1873, in Boston, Mass. Brewer, Leigh Richmond, clergyman, bishwas born Jan. 20, 1839, in Berkshire, Vt. He was educated at the Canton academy of New Jersey; in 1863 he graduated from Hobart college; in 1866 from the General theological seminary; and received the degrees of In A.M. and S.T.D. 1866 he was ordained deacon; and in 1867 M'as ordained priest. In 1866-72 he was rector of Grace church at Carthage, N.Y.; and in 1872-80 was rector of Trinity church at Watertown, N.Y. Since 1880 he has been protestant episcopal bishop of Montana at Helena. Brewer, Mark Spencer, lawyer, diplomat, congressman, was born Oct. 22, 1837, in Addison, Mich. Since 1864 he has practiced law in Pontiac, Mich; and has been city attorney; and was state senator in 1873-74. In 1877-81 and 1887-91 he was a representative from Michigan to the forty-fifth, forty-sixth, fiftieth and fifty-first congresses as a republican; declining a renomination. In 1881-85 he was United States consul general to Berlin. In 1896 he was a delegate at large to the republican national convention; and in 1898-1901 United States civil service comop,

missioner. He died ington, D.C.

March

18, 1901, in

Wash-

Brewer, Nicholas Richard, sculptor, artist, 1857, in High Forest, Minn. He has painted portraits of Joseph Jeft'erson; Miss Ellen Beach Yaw; Governor John S. Pillsbury of Minnesota; Reverend Thomas J. Ducey; and others.

was born June

11,

Brewer, William Henry, educator, author, Sept. 14, 1828, in Poughkeepsie, N. Y. He graduated from the Sheffield scientific

was born

school;

and studied

in

France and Germany. In 1858-60 he was a professor of chemistry and geology in the college of Washington, Pa. In 1860-64 he was first assistant of the geological survey of California ; and the latter year was also a professor of chemistry in the university of California. Since 1892 he has been president of the Connecticut board of health. He has served on important government commissions, such as the topographical survey of Connecticut, the cereal production in the United States, United States forestry commission, scientific survey of the Philippine Islands, and various other commissions. He is the author of Botany of California; and other works.

Brewer, Willis, soldier, journalist, state senator, congressman, author, was born in Alabama. At the age of eighteen years he entered the military service of the confederate states. He has been a successful journalist, lawyer and planter; and in 1871 was treasurer of Lowndes county, Ala. In 187680 he was state auditor of Alabama. In 1880-82 he was a representative in the Alabama state legislature; was a member of the state senate in 1882-90; was again a member of the state legislature in 1890-94; and was again a member of the state senate in 1894-97, when he resigned. In 1892 he was an elector at large on the democratic ticket. In 1897-1901 he was a representative from Alabama to the fifty-fifth and fiftysixth congresses as a democrat.

Brewerton, George Douglas, soldier, authwas born in 1820 in Cuba. He joined Stephenson's regiment of California volunteers; or,

and became first lieutenant in 1850. He is the author of The War in Kansas; Fitzpoodle at Newport; Ida Lewis, the Heroine of

Lime Rock; The Automaton Company; and The Automaton Battery. Brewerton, Henry, soldier, was born in York. In 1813 he enlisted in the United Sta,tes army; and in 1865 was brevetted bri-

Brewer, Theodore Frelinghuysen, clergyman, college president, was born Jan. 20,

New

]84r), in Gibson county, Tenn. He is a noted episcopal methodist in the clergyman church and president of the Harrell international institute at Muskogee, Idaho.

gadier-general of volunteers. 17, 1879.

He

died April



Brewer, Thomas Mayo, ornithologist, author, was born Nov. 21, 1814, in Boston, Mass. He was a Massachusetts ornithologist; and was the principal author of the History of North American Birds. He was also the author of Oology of North America. He died Jan. 24, 1880, in Boston, Mass.

Brewster, Benjamin Harris, lawyer, jurist, was born Oct. 13, 1816, in Salem county, N.J. He was appointed to adjudicate the claims of the Cherokee Indians against the United

States and in 1867 was appointed attorneygemeral of Pennsylvania. In 1881-85 he was attorney-general of the United States. He died April 4, 1888, in Philadelphia, Pa.