BIO:  BREWER, William, s/o John & Mary (Cook) Brewer

Submitted by: Diana Flynn <ivie@tima.com>

BREWER,   COOK,   WHITE,   ERNEST,   HAWKINS,   WATSON,   KIRKHAM,   BURTON

"HISTORY OF GREENE AND SULLIVAN COUNTIES, STATE OF
INDIANA, FROM THE EARLIEST TIME TO THE PRESENT; TOGETHER WITH INTERESTING
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES, REMINISCENCES, NOTES, ETC." CHICAGO: GOODSPEED BROS.
& CO., PUBLISHERS. 1884.

SULLIVAN CO., IN.
HAMILTON TWP.
PAGE 713
WILLIAM BREWER was born near Graysville March 20, 1826, an
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 Grayville 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 recieved $30.  Out of this
he bought a suit of clothes and paid his way home, and had left $16, which
he loaned at 6 percent 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 accumulate property valued
at $20,000.  Since 1875, he has been in the hardware business at Sullivan
with Thomas Burton.  His politics is Republican.
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