Sullivan County IN Archives Biographies.....Brewer, William 1826 - 
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Author: Goodspeed (1884)

   WILLIAM BREWER was born near Graysville March 20, 1826, and is the son of
John and Mary (Cook) Brewer, natives, respectively, of Kentucky and Ohio. The
parents moved to Sullivan County about the year 1818, and settled in the woods,
where they cleared a farm, which was then sold and another purchased where
Graysville now is. Here the parents remained until their deaths. After becoming
twenty-one years of age. William Brewer went with a flatboat, owned by Joseph
White, to New Orleans, the trip consuming six weeks' time, for which he received
$30. Out of this he bought a suit of clothes and paid his way home, and had left
$16, which he loaned at 6 per cent interest, and commenced work at 50 cents a
day on a farm. After the "crop season" he hired out by the month at $8, and took
his pay in jeans. He worked thus until November 29, 1848, when he married Mary
Ann, daughter of John and Sarah (Ernest) Hawkins. Six children were born to
them, four of whom are now living—Sarah E., wife of Robert Watson; Emily Ann,
wife of John Kirkham; Leanah and Mary. The family are members of the Methodist
Church, and Mr. Brewer belongs to the Masonic fraternity. By industry, economy
and good management, he has accumulated property valued at $20,000. Since 1875,
he has been in the hardware business at Sullivan with Thomas Burton. His
politics is Republican.

Additional Comments:
Hamilton Township

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HISTORY OF GREENE AND SULLIVAN COUNTIES,
STATE OF INDIANA,
FROM THE EARLIEST TIME TO THE PRESENT; TOGETHER WITH INTERESTING BIOGRAPHICAL
SKETCHES, REMINISCENCES, NOTES, ETC.

ILLUSTRATED.

CHICAGO: GOODSPEED BROS. & CO., PUBLISHERS.
1884.

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