Brewer, Mark S
lawyer, state senator, congressman, was born Oct. 22, 1837, in Addison, Mich. He received an academic education; read law with Governor Moses Wisner and the Hon. M. E. Crofoot, and since 1864 has practiced law in Pontiac, Mich. He has been city attorney; was state senator in 1873-74; and has served with distinction as a member of the forty-fifth, forty-sixth, fiftieth and fifty-first congresses as a republican; declining a renomination. During 1881-85 he was United States consul general to Berlin. He is an able lawyer and brilliant orator; and is recognized as one of the most prominent republicans of Michigan. In 1896 he was a delegate at large to the republican national convention.
BREWER, THEODORE FRELING- HUYSEN, clergyman, college president, was born Jan. 20, 1845, in Gibson county, Tenn. He received his education at the Yorkville academy and the Andrew college. He is a noted clergyman in the methodist episcopal church, and president of the Harrell International institute of Muskogee, I. T.