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vontiinietl to (xriipy till ISG.l, when he returned to lijiltiniore ami l)ecanieetlitorof The Sunday Tele- tjnim. He was one of tlie orij^iuators of the anti- registry convention and souglit a moditication of the registry law, so obnoxious to many of the citi- zens. On Ft'li. 9. 1S74, he became editor of the Riltiincrc If'iili/ yews.

BREWER, John Hyatt, musical composer, w;us iH.rn in Brooklyn, N. Y., Jan. 18, 18.j6, of Scotch English jxirents. In 18(52 he made his debut Jis lx>y soloist, and continued to sing until he was fourteen years old. A year later he l»ecanie an organist in Brooklyn, and gave vocal and instnunental lessons, at the same time carry- ing on his musical education, his instructors being Rafael Navarro and Dudley Buck. In 1878 he became the second tenor and accom- panist of the Apollo club, and later conducted the Cecilia ladies" vocal society of sixty voices, for which last he wrote several cantatas. Among these: "Hesperus," "The Herald of Spring," " Tlie Sea and the Moon," and "The Birth of Love." Among the better known of his songs are: " Ba.sh fulness. "" Seashine," " Treacherj-, " " The Katydid," and " Sensible Serenade." His instrumental work consists ohietly of pieces for the <>r.raii.

BRENV'ER, Josiah, missionary, was born at South Tyringham, Mass., Jime 1,1796. He was graduated at Yale in 1821, after which he studied theologj- at Andover for a time, interspersing his studies with missionary labors in jails and hospi- tals and among the Indians. From 1824 to 1826 he was a tutor at Yale, continuing his theological studies under the Yale professors, and in 1826 he was licen.sed to jireach. In the same year he was sent by the American board of foreign missions as a missionary to Smyrna. He made a tour of the ArchiiJelago, preaching and distributing Bibles, and in 1828 returned to America and sev- ered his connection with the American lx)ard. He was married in December, 1829, to Emilia A. Field, daugliter of Dr. David Dudley Field of Stoc-kbriflge, Ma.ss., and with his young bride started for Smyrna, in February, 1830, having Ijeen employed by the New Haven ladies' Greek association to establish female schools for Greeks in Asia Minor. The destruction of the Turkish fleet by the allied naval forces of England, France and Rassia at the battle of Navarino, in 1827. had oi>ened the door of Turkey to the mes- sengers of civilization, and Mr. Brewer was a pioneer in the introduction of female schools and of the printing press. In 1831 he published in Smyrna the first religious new.spaper printed in the Greek language. After eight years of arduou-s labor he returned to the United States, settling in Connecticut, where he was appointed chaplain of the iienitentiary at Wetnersfield.

From 1841 to 1850 he lectured and preached in the anti-slavery cause, and edited varioas anti- slavery journals; from 1850 to 1857 he taught school at ^liddletown. Conn., and from 1857 to 1866 was officiating jiastor of the church in Housa- tonic, Mass. His published works include, "Resi- dence in Constantinople" (1827), and " Patmos and the Seven Churches of Asia "' (1851). He diedatStockbridge. Mass., Nov. 19, 1872.

BREWER, Leigh Richmond, 1st missionary bishop of Montana and 126th in succession in the American episcopate, was born in Berk- shire, Vt., Jan. 20, 1839. He was gradu- ated from Hobart coUege in 1863, and com- pleted his course at the General theological seminary in 1866. He was admitted to deacon's orders by Bi.sliup Potter, July 1, 1866, and ordained to the priesthood by Bishop Coxe, June 16, 1867. He was for six years rector of Grace church, Carthage, N. Y., and then took charge of Trinity, Watertown, N. Y., where he served up to the time of his advancement to the episcopac}'. He received the degree of S.T.D. from Hobart college in 1881. He was consecrated bishop to the mis- sionary district of Montana, Dec. 8, 1880, his residence being at Helena.

BREWER, Mark S., representative, was born in Adtlison, Oakland coimty, Mich., Oct. 22, 1837. Having received an academic education he worked on his father's farm until nineteen years of age, when he read law with ex-Governor Wisner at Pontiac, Mich., and was admitted to the bar in 1864. He was circuit court commis- sioner for Oakland county from 1866 to 1869; city attorney, 1866-"67, and was elected to the state senate in 1872, serving two years. He was elected a representative from the 6th congressional dis- trict to the 45th and 46th congresses, and in 1881 was appointed by President Garfield consul- general at Berlin. On his return to the United States in 1885 he resumed the practice of law, and was elected to the 50th and 51st congresses. He died at Wasliiiigton, D.C., Marcli \fi. 1901.

BREWER, Susan, educator. (See Thoma.s,
 * \Irs. Susjin.)

BREWER, Thomas Mayo, naturalist, was born in Boston, Mass., Nov. 21. 1814. He was a grand.son of James Brewer, one of the leaders in the " Boston tea party." In 1835 he was gradu- ated from Harvard, and three years later from the Massachu.setts medical school, after which he practised medicine for two years; in 1840 l>e- came editor of the Boston Atlaa, and in 1S57 a member of the publishing house of Brewer and Tileston. In 1840 he prepared and published aj new edition of " Wilson's American Ornithol- ogy," to which he apjiended a complete synopsis of the then known birds of North America. In 1859 the first volimie of his "North American