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DAVIS J. BREWER
was born in Smyrna, Asia Minor, in what is not Izir, Turkey,
on June 20, 1837. His missionary family returned to the
United States one year after Brewer’s birth and settled
in Wethersfield, Connecticut. Brewer attended Wesleyan
University for two years and then transferred to Yale,
where he was graduated in 1856. After reading law for
one year, Brewer attended Albany Law School and was graduated
in 1858. He then moved to Kansas, where he was admitted
to the bar and established a law practice. In 1861, Brewer
was appointed Commissioner of the Circuit Court in Leavenworth.
Two years later, he was elected a Judge of the Probate
and Criminal Courts of Leavenworth County. From 1865 to
1869, he served on the United States District Court for
Kansas. Brewer was elected to the Kansas Supreme Court
in 1870 and served for fourteen years. In 1884, President
Chester A. Arthur appointed Brewer to the Circuit Court
for the Eighth Circuit. Five years later, on December
4, 1889, President Benjamin Harrison nominated Brewer
to the Supreme Court of the United States. The Senate
confirmed the appointment on December 18, 1889. Brewer
served on the Supreme Court for twenty years. He died
on March 28, 1910, at the age of seventy-two. |
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