Brewer, Willis
soldier, journalist, state senator, congressman, author, was born in Alabama. He entered the military service of the confederate states at the age of eighteen years; has been a journalist, has practiced law, has written books, and is now a planter. In 1871 he was county treasurer of Lowndes; state auditor from 1876 to 1880; was state legislator from 1880 to 1882; state senator from 1882 to 1890; state legislator from 1890 to 1894; and state senator from 1894 till he resigned in 1897. He was elected for the state at large on the democratic ticket in 1892, and was elected to the fifty-fifth congress as a democrat.
BREWERTON, GEORGE DOUGLAS, soldier, author, was born in 1820, in Cuba.
He is a United States army officer; and the author of The War in Kansas, a Rough Trip to the Border; Fitzpoodle at Newport; Ida Lewis, the Heroine of Lime Rock; The Automaton Company; and The Automaton Battery.
BREWSTER, BENJAMIN HARRIS, lawyer, jurist, was born Oct. 13, 1816, in Salem county, N. J. He was appointed, by President Polk, to adjudicate the claims of the Cherokee Indians against the United States; and in 1867 was appointed In attorney-general of Pennsylvania. 1881 he was appointed, by President Garfield, attorney-general of the United States. He died April 4, 1888, in Philadelphia, Pa.
BREWSTER, CHARLES WARREN, journalist, author, legislator, state senator, was born Sept. 13, 1812, in Portsmouth, N. H. He began to work for his living as an apprentice in the office of the Portsmouth Journal. In fifteen years he had become its proprietor, and when he died had been connected with his journal for more than fifty years. He served several terms in the legislature, and was a member of the state constitutional convention of 1850-51. He is the author of Fifty Years in a Printing Office; and Rambles about Portsmouth. He died Aug. 3, 1868, in Portsmouth, N. H.