The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1910-04-01
death COMES TO
b JUSTICE brewer
Member of Supreme Court
Victim Of Apoleptic Stroke.
Was One Of Greatest Jurists Of
His Time Also Writer
and Lecturer.

| Washington, March 2S.-David Jo-
siah Brewer, Associate Justice of the
Supreme Court of the United States
died tonight at TO-: 80 o'clock, as the
result Of stroke of apoplexy. His
death followed within a minute or
two, before he could be carried to his
bed. Mrs. Brewer was with him when
the end came. Justice Brewer was sew
enty-three years old.
The end came altogether unexpect-
eddy.
Although he had not bnee feeling
we'll for the last few days, the ag d
jurist was up and out today, and APP
parently in the best of health and
spirits. He was in equally good spirits
at dinner, and spent the evening in
reading.
Shortly after 10 o'clock he retired
to his room, and within a few mo-
ments Mrs. Brewer heard a very heav
fail and went to investigate the cause.
She found her husband prone on the
floor of the bathroom. He did not
regain consciousness, and died before
physician, hastily summoned, could
reach the house.
The two daughters of the aged
jurist, Mrs. James F. Karrich and Mr..
II. J. Jetmore, were summoned at
once, but reached the residence too
late.
In his earlier days, Justice Brewer
camped regularly in The Rocky Noun
tains, and was fond of outdoor life.
He was a member of the old Field
family, being a nephew of the late
Associate Justice Stephen ]. Field ard
Cyrus w. Field
Justice Brewers death raises a
serious question as to the action of
the Court regarding the Standard
Oil and American Tobacco Company
suits, and it is not improbable that
the cases will have to be retired, since
there now remain but seven Justices
to pass upon them. Justice Moody not
having participated in the trials by
reason of continued illness.
Justice Brewer was the one member
of the Supreme Govt who was in al
most constant demand as a lecturer
and after-dinner speaker. He was an
orator of unusual ability. With a pic
turesque person "a rich. rotund voice,
and cmmand of strong and powerful
English, he always held his audiences
until the last word OF his oratory had
died away. He expressed his opinions
forcibly and clearly on any subject, un
less for some reason it might affect
pending decision of the Supreme
Court.
While on the Supreme Bench of
Kansas, Justice Brewer handed down
the decision that women were eligible
to the office of county superintendent
of public schools, ard another sus-
tanning the right of women to money
possessed by them at the time of mar
riage, and to all money earned by
them thereafter.
AS United States Circuit Judge he
entered the decree sustained the Max
we'll land grant, the largest private
grant sustained in the United States.
Justice Brewer was the author Of
"The Pew to the Pulpit" THE TWEEN
tieth Century from Another View
point" American Citizenship" and
"The United States Christian Ma
ton"
David Josiah Brewer was most con-
spicious among the Justices of the
United States Supreme Court of late
years on account of the frequency
with which he appeared on the lecture
platform and as the author of articles
in current magazines. This freedom In
the expressing of opinions was frown-
ed upon by hicsao estates on the benc
Finally he added to his unpopularit
among Justices by criticising the pol
icIes of President Roosevelt ard by
adopting the cause of woman suffrage.
Justice Brewer was appointed to the
bench In 1889. He was the son OF
missionary, Rev. Josiah Brewer, and
his mother was Emilia A. Field, sister
of David Dudley and Cyrus Dudley
and Justice Stephen J. Field. He was
born in Turkey but came TO the United