The New Student's Reference Work/Brewer, David Josiah

Brewer, David Josiah, associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, was born at Smyrna, Asia Minor, June 20, 1837, his father being then a missionary in the east. He was educated at the Wesleyan University, at Yale and at Albany Law School. He practiced law at Leavenworth, Kan., where he was elected probate judge. In 1870 he became associate justice of the supreme court of his state, resigning in 1884 to become judge of the United States Circuit Court. In 1889 he became associate justice of the United States Supreme Court, under appointment of President Harrison. He took an active interest in education while a resident of Kansas, and was a member of the faculty of the Columbian Law School. He is an LL.D. of Yale. He also acted on the Venezulean Commission appointed by President Cleveland, and was a member of the British Venezuelan Arbitration Tribunal. In 1891 he delivered an important address before the Yale Law School on The Protection of Private Property against Public Attack. He is the author of a work on American Citizenship. He died March 28, 1910.