The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1910-03-29
Found Unconscious in the
Bath Room Of :, His Home
Last Night
STORY OF HIS LIFE AND His
WORK ON THE SUPREME BENCH
Was the Sou Of Missionary and AT.
or Graduating From Yale Began tile
Practice of Law at Leayenworth,
Kansas.

Washington, March 29.-The death
OF Justice David Josiah Brewer of the
supreme court of the United States
at his home in this city last night
caused profound regret here and
throughout the country. Many calls
were made at the Brewer residence e
today by sympathizing friends of the
FAMILY. In addition messages of con-
dolence arrived In great numbers.
Justice Brewer. dying of apoplexy,
was found in the bathroom Of his
house by Mrs. Brewer. She at once
telephoned for Justice Gould of the
supreme court of the District of
Columbia who lives near at hand.
Hurrying to the Brewer home Justice
Gould with the assistance of two
servants carried the obdy to the bed
room. Justice Brewers pulse was
still family beating. Mrs. Brewer
and her niece, Miss Clara Hall, were
the only members of the family in the
house at the time. An attempt was
made to notify the other justices of
the court but 1t was found too late
to reach any Of them except Justice
Harlan who sent his son to be of any
assistance possible.
Justice Brewer had not been we'll
for several days. He had suffered
several attacks of headache and stom-
ach trouble.
President Taft, upon arrival here
today from New York, was much dis
tressed by the details of the death of
his friend. The president had learned
only the bare fact of his death last
night before his departure from Jer-
sey City.
Summary of His Life.
David Josiah Brewer was born in
Smyrna, Asia Minor, June 20, 1887,
the son of Rev. Josiah and Amelia
Field Brewer. He was graduated
from Yale university ip~1856 and the
Albany law school in~1858.
Justice Brewer was appointed to the
supreme court by President Bejamin
Harrison to succeed Justice Stanley
MIatthe ws, taking his seat Jan. 6. 1897.
He was brought by his parents to
this country from Asia Minor in the
autumn of 1888. His mother. the
daughter Of Rev. David Dudley Field,
and her brother, Stephen ]. Field, ac-
companied her husband to Turkey as
missionary in 1890.
After his graduation from the AL
bany. N. Y. law school in 1858, fol-
lowing studying law in the office of
his uncle, David Dudley Field in New
York, he entered the practice Of law
in Leavenworth, Kas. He was made
United States commissioner of the
circuit court in 1861, Judge of the
probate and criminal courts of Leav-
enworth county. 1863-64, and of the
First district of Kansas. 1860; dis
trict attorney for Leavenworth county
1869-7O. and judge of the supreme
court of Kansas 1870-84.
He was appointed by President Ar
thur Judge of the United States cir
cult court for the Eighth circuit in
1884. and served five years and fol-
lowing his service, President Harri-
son appointed him associate justice of
the supreme court
COmplicates Cases.
A re-arrangement of cases affecting
the great corporations which are
pending before the supreme court of
United States loomed up prominently
today as probable outcome of the
death of Justice Brewer. These in
clude the dissolution suits against
the Standard Oil company of New
Jersey and the American Tobacco
company and the corporation tax
cases. The decision of those cases by
seven justices on the bench, now that
Justice Brewer has passed away, and
Justice Moody is incapacttated for
service on account of rheumatism. is
believed to depend almost entirely up
on the unanimity of opinions on the
questions. Some lawyers who have
followed closely the decisions of the
supreme court scout the idea that
such unanimity exists and therefore.
they are free in expressing the view
that these cases will be set for. re-
argument before a full court. 1t is
probable that vote already has been
taken on all of these cases. If this
be true and the court was equally de-
vided or nearly SO, it is believed that
the court would hesitate to give to
the country decision which might
have resulted differently if it had been
decided by the full bench.
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