FREDERICK H. BREWER,
a well-known citizen of the town of Groton and a Justice of the Peace,
was born in Norwich, Conn., May 24, 1834, son of Lyman and Harriet (Tyler)
Brewer. (An account of his ancestry may be found in the sketch of Louisa
J. Brewer, published elsewhere in this work.) The father was born in Wilbraham,
Mass., about 1785, and died in Norwich in June, 1857. His wife was the
daughter of the Rev. John Tyler, rector of Christ's Church for fifty-four
years. They had eleven children, of whom the subject of this sketch was
the youngest.
Frederick H. Brewer was educated in the school
of Dr. Roswell Park at Pomfret, where he studied for six years. In 1852
he went to Buffalo, where he was engaged for sixteen years in the Cuban
shook trade, as a member of the firm of Story & Polhemus.
In 1869 he returned to Norwich, and settled
upon his small farm of twenty acres, near West Mystic station. He has been
proprietor for seven years of the Nawyang House, on Mystic Island, now
called the Mystic Island House, which was built in 1857, and was owned
by his brother William. This brother, who was Clerk of the Court in Norwich
for many years, died in California. Judge Brewer is a Democrat politically.
He has served as Justice of the Peace for twelve years, and has also been
Registrar of Voters. He is a Master Mason of Buffalo Lodge. He is a communicant
of the Episcopal church, in which he serves as vestryman and clerk of the
parish. Judge Brewer was married in Buffalo in 1859 to Rebecca Holmes,
daughter of Robert Holmes, of that place. He has five children, namely:
Lyman, a banker in California, who is married and has two sons and two
daughters; Harriet L., who resides with her brother; Julia E., Ellen T.,
and Frances Hale, who reside at home with their parents. These children
were educated in the high school at Mystic.
Judge Brewer's home, on the banks of the
Sound, commands a fine view of the ocean and neighboring islands to the
east and south. With a plenteous supply of bivalves and fish in every variety
fresh from the water, with vegetables from the garden and abundant supplies
from the dairy and poultry yard, they are in no danger of wanting the necessaries
or even many of the comforts of life.
Biographical Review Volume
XXVI
Containing Life Sketches of Leading Citizens
of New London County Connecticut
Boston
Biographical Review Publishing Company
1898
pgs 387 - 388
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