Daniel Brewer, Rapides Parish Louisiana
Submitted by: Suzanne Shoemaker

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Source: Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Northwest Louisiana
The Southern Publishing Company, Chicago & Nashville,  1890

     DANIEL BREWER, of New York nativity has, from the date of his birth in
1824, resided in a number of different States, but the most of his time has
been spent in New York and Louisiana, his residence in the former dating to
1848, the common schools, of which favored him with a good education.  His
first removal from the place of his birth was to Wisconsin, thence to
Illinois, from which State he started to Texas in 1851, but after reaching
Alexandria, La., his finances were at such a low ebb that he was compelled
to remain here, and began working at his trade, that of a wheelwright.
After following this calling until 1852, he began overseering for C. C. C.
Martin, remaining with him until 1835, when he began working in the same
capacity for Ralph Smith, working on the R. R. R. R. from Alexandria to
Lecompte, continuing eight years.  He was not in active service during the
war, but was a receiver of tithes for the Confederate Government in Texas.
He returned to this State after the close of the war and settled near
Lecompte, engaged in farming but had very hard luck, got discouraged, and
went to the hills, where he lived fourteen years, being engaged in the
raising of cotton, corn and stock.  At the end of this time he returned to
Lecompte, and purchased 100 acres of land which he has since been engaged
in cultivating.  He was married in 1856, to Miss Esther S. Moore, who was
born near Cheneyville in 1832, and to them seven sons and seven daughters
have been born:  Kenneth (who died at the age of twenty-eight years),
Jester (who also died at that age), Mary (who died after becoming grown),
Alice (who died in Indiana), and Daniel (who died at the age of five
years).  Those living are Susie, Ralph, John, Eunice, Hull, Lillie, Evie,
Octavia and Arthur.  Mr. Brewer became a member of the Methodist Episcopal
Church, when eighteen years of age at Schenectady, N. Y., and has reared
his children to be a credit and honor to the community.  He is a son of
Lewis and Mary (McClure) Brewer, both natives of New York, and the former
an old-line Whig.