Brewer, Francis B
pioneer, physician, legislator, congressman, was born Oct. 8, 1820, in 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 and 1874; government director of the Union Pacific railroad from 1874 to 1878; and manager of the State Insane asylum at Buffalo in 1881 and 1882. He was for ten years president of the First National bank of Westfield; and was elected a representative from New York to the forty-eighth congress as a republican.