Biography of Asbury L Brewster, Sebastian Co, AR

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SOURCE: History of Benton, Washington, Carroll, Madison, Crawford,
Franklin, and Sebastian Counties, Arkansas. Chicago: The Goodspeed 
Publishing Co., 1889.
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Dr. Asbury L. Brewster, of the drug firm of McConnell & Brewster, and assistant
physician and surgeon for the  Kansas & Texas Coal Company, is one of the
promising young men of Huntington. He was born in Lauderdale  County, Miss., in
1857, and is a son of Christopher C. and Mary G. (Pogue) Brewster, natives of
Florida and  Alabama, respectively. They were married in Mississippi, where
they attained their growth, and lived in that  State until after the war. They
then removed to Louisiana, and in 1868 came to Sebastian County, Ark., settling
near the present site of Huntington, at what is now known as “Brewster's
Chapel.” There Mr. Brewster owned a  fine farm, upon which the family lived
after his death in 1878 until the winter of 1887-88. Mrs. Brewster now lives in
Huntington, and both she and her husband joined the Methodist Church when
young. Asbury L. is the  eldest of three sons and two daughters now living. He
passed his boyhood upon a farm, and received but a  common-school education. In
1878 he began the study of medicine, and in 1879 attended one course of
lectures  at the Louisville University in Kentucky. He graduated from the
Vanderbilt University at Nashville in 1881, and  has since practiced his
profession with increasing success in the vicinity of Huntington. He owns
eighty acres of  land two miles from Huntington, which contains coal deposits.
During the past year he established himself in  the drug business. In politics
he is a Democrat, and his first presidential vote was cast for Hancock in 1880.
He  is a member of Pulliam Lodge No. 133, at Witcherville, and belongs to the
A. O. U. W. He worships at the  Methodist Episcopal Church, South.