Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1910-04-01
Member Of U. S, Supreme
Court Dies Of ApOplGIy,
STRICKEN IN BATHROOM
Famous Jurist Was Found by His
Wife and Died Before Medical Aid
Could Be summonsd-He Was sew
enty.three Years Of Age.


States supreme court. died at his resi-
dence in Washington. Justice BreWei
had not been feeling well lfor more
than a week. but had not been oblige
10 take to his bed He had enjoyed
Easter with the members of his family
and Monday afternoon walked out 20
the office Of his physician. He CON
planned at the dinner table of feelins
worse but his condition was not con
sidered serious.
At a little after 10 o'clock Monda'
night he told Mrs Brewer that he was
going 10 retire. and entefed the bath
room.
A little later Mrs. Brewer heard q
noise as if something had fallen ~
the bathroom. but she took no particu
lar notice of il until her attention wa
attracted a few minutes later by the
sound OF heavy breathing. Rushing O.
the bathroom then. she found her nus
band living on the floor, unconscious
The justice had undressed before en
tering the bathroom.
Only the servants were In the house
with Mrs. Brewer. and she dispatcher
one of them to the home of Judg
Ashley Gould. Of the District OF GO
nmbia supreme court who lives ney
door to the Brewers. When Juds
Gould arrived physicians living in ID.
neighborhood had been summoned
Justice Brewer was carried from q.
bathroom and laid on a bed, but wher
the doctors arrived few minute
later he was dead Apoplexy was th'
cause of death.
Justice Brewers two daughters
Mrs. James L. Carrick and Mrs. II. p
Jutmore. who live in Washington, were
summoned and arrived shortly after
the physicians.
Justice Brewer was seventythree
wears old. He had been an associate
Justice since December. 1889. and hac
a part IN deciding many momentors
questions. among them the great anti
trust prosecutions.
He was appointed to the bench by
President Cleveland.
Was a Keen Lawyer.
David Josiah Brewer was born in
Smyrna. Asia Minor, in 1887. He was
the son of Rev Josiah Brewer and
Emilia A. Field. sister of David Dudley
Field and Cyrus W Field and Justice
Stephen j. Field. His father was an
early missionary to Turkey.
Young Brewer was graduated from
Yale I'm 1856 and from the Albany Law
school in 1858. He established him
self in his profession at Leavenworth
Kan. in 1889 and there he lived until
he assumed his duties as justice OF the
supreme court.
Coming from one Of the most emf
nent families of America, he early
made his mark as a lawyer Of keen
acumen. No family In American his
tory has a more distinguished record
for men Of caliber than the Field fam
ily. which is New England stock and
of Puritan organ Clergymen juris-s
scientists. conQuerors i'm every par
of the globe the scions of the Field
stock have 0layed a great part in thr
glories that have come to the Amer
can nation
In the annals Of American pluck
and perseverance and scientific con
quest no name stands higher thar
that of Cyru- W. Field. who stretched
the first oceanic cable which linked
continent with continent
In 1861 David J. Brewer was an
pointed United States commission
and during 1863 and 1854 be was j1ls.
Of the probate and criminal courts o.
Leavenworth county. and 1865 until
1869 ne was Judge OF the First distric'
court of Kansas.
In 1876 Judge Brewer was electe'
Justice OF the supreme court of hi
state. and was reelected in 1876 an
1882: and i'm 1854 he was appointed
Judge of the circuit of the United
States for the Eighth district
Justice Brewer succeeded Justice
Stanley Matthews on the bench Of thc
highest tribunal in the nation in Dc
cember. 1883: and since that time Do
has rendered many decisions Of mote
and filed many special commission
with signal ability.