Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1910-04-02
JUSTICE brewer
FOUND DEAD
Member Of u S. Supreme
Court Dies Of Apop!eIy.
STRICKEN IN BATHROOM

Wife and Died Before Medical Aid
Could Be Summoned-He Was Sew.
entythree Years Of Age.
Justice David J. Brewer. OF the United
States supreme court. died at his resi-
dence in Washington. Justice Brewer
had not been feeling well for more
than week. but had not been obliged
to take to his bed. He had enjoyed
Easter with the members Of his family
and Monday afternoon walked out to
the Office Of his physician. He com
planned at the dinner table Of feeling
worse. but his condition was not con-
sidered serious.
At a little after 10 o'clock Monday
night he told Mrs. Brewer that he was
going to retire. and entered the bath
room.
A little later Mrs. Brewer heard a
noise as II something had fallen in
the bathroom. but she took no particu-
lar notice Of II until her attention was
attracted a few minutes later by the
sound of heavy breathing. Rushing to
the bathroom then. she found her hus.
band lying on the floor. unconscious.
The justice had undressed before en-.
tcring the bathroom.
Only the servants were in the house
with Mrs. Brewer and she dispatched
one of them TO the home Of Judge
Ashley Gould. of the District of Co
lumbia supreme court. who lives next
door TO the Brewers. When Judge
Gould arrived physicians living In the
neighborhood had been summoned.
Justice Brewer was carried from tho
bathroom and laid on bed. but when
the doctors arrived a few minutes
later he was dead. Apoplexy was the
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 seventy-three
years old. He had been an associate
justice since December. 1889. and had
part In deciding many momcntous
questions. among them the great anti.
trust prosecutions.
He was appointed to the bench by
President Cleveland.
David Josiah Brewer was born In
Smyrna. Asia Minor. in 1897. 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 In 1856 and from the Albany Law
school in 1858. He established him
self in his profession at I.eavenworth.
Kan. In 1859. 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 rs lawyer OF keen
acumen. No family In American his.
tory has a more distinguished record
for men of caliber than the Field fam.
lily. which Is New England stock and
OF Puritan ORGAN. Clergymen. iuris.s,
scientists. conduerors In every par,
NJ the globe the scions of the Field
stock have played great part in tho
glories that have come 10 the Ameri.
can nation.
In the annals Of American pluck
and perseverance and scientific con.
quest no name stands higher than
that of Cyrus ". Field. who stretched
tho first oceanic cable which linked
continent with continent.
In 1861 David ]. Brewer was ap.
pointed United States commissioner.
and during 1853 and 1864 he was Judge
OF the probate and criminal courts OF
;.eavenworth county. and 1865 until
1869 he was Judge Of the First district
court OF Kansas
In 1876 Judge Brewer was elected
Justice OF the supreme court OF his
state. and was reelected in 1876 and
1882: and In 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 the
highest tribunal In the nation In De.
cember. 1889: and since that time he
has rendered many decisions Of note
and filed MANY special commissions
with signal ability