Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-08-25
COMPLETE PLANS
FOR BURIAL OF
c. H. BREWER
Ceremonies for South Orange
Official Who Died Yesterday
Take Place Tomorrow.


While members of his family were
speeding to his bedside in automo-
biles and trains Graham Fl. Brewer,
n,ernber of the Village Board OF
Trustees, a popular insurance broker
and clubman. passed away at his
residence. POI South Orange avenue,
soutb Orange, at sos o'clock last
night. Mrs. Brewer, with two or her
children and others of the family ar
rived at the house half an hour
later. only to learn that their all
aav race against death had been
f,tile. The grief-strtcken wire
swooned when she learned her nus
band had passed away and required
medical attention. but soon AFTER
wards revived.
Mr.. brewers death was quite SUIT
den While bathing, his favorite III
version. at Amagansett, Long lslana,
where his family had been spenolhg
the summer, Mr.. Brewer complained
~ an injury to his ear, and IL WIS
discovered that while diving some
water was forced through his nose
to tube leading to the ear. On al
vice of his physicians he did not 80
20 the resort Saturday put lnsueau
foined at dinner in Manhattan, ms
brother, Calvert Brewer, Vce-presl-
dent of the United states Nortsase
ed Tr,,st Company, Manhattan,
in the afternoon.
Went to Tennis Club.
He returned to South orange,
amending some time at the orange
Lawn Tennis Club and return leu
home. complaining of an earache. hs
did not eat heartily at dinner, anu
at o'clock became dellrlous. Maius
tried for three hours to get a physl-
Ian and at midnight DIR. John Dane
rasnonded He was later Joined by
Dr Richard ID. Freeman and by DR.;
Charles Dane 1t was discoVereo
that an abscess had formed in ms
ear. and in bursting had injured the
brain. He lapsed into a state or
corna at a. m. Sunday morning ana
never rallied. At daylight messages
were sent by Village President fran
els Speir to Mrs. Brewer and MT.
and Mrs. william A. Brewer nus
parents, at Amagansett, ana they
started at once for South oranSe'
taxing Mr.. Brewers two children
Graham II. Brewer Jr.' ana his'o
Brewer. IA,
Word was also dispatched to his
brother and sister, Calvert Brewer
and Mrs William A. Minott, VINO
were at st. James, Long Island, ana
IN another sister, Mrs. Eugene "
Connect. also of South Orange, VINO
was at Bayport. Long Island. tele-
gram to Theodore II. Brewer, son.
was sent to Maine. where ne IS on a
vacation. and he Is expected nome
TODAY. The first party to arrive at
Mr.. and Mrs. Minott and Mr.. and Mrs.
Calvert Brewer. They reached the
bedside fifteen minutes too late, and
fifteen minutes later Mrs. Brewer ana
her children. with the parents OF the
stricken official arrived.
Were Delayed In Starting.
Mrs. Brewer and family were de-
Iaved in leaving Amagansett because
of the fact that they had Just missed
n train. They then made the trip
from Amagansett to Patchogue, Long
Island, by automobile. there taking
a train. An effort to reach Mrs.
Connect at her summer home, in
Bayport, was futile until 5:30 o'clock
last evening. 1t was a week ago that
Mr.. Brewer was first stricken with
slight earaches.
Funeral services will be held at
the Brewer residence tomorrow after
noon on the arrival of the 3:15 train
from New York. The Rev. George
Albert Hanna, rector of the Episco-
pal Church of the Holy Communion,
South Orange. of which Mr.. Brewer
was a Iife-lo long member, will officiate,
and the interment. which will be
private, will be made in Rosedale
Cemetery. Orange.
Mr.. Brewer is survived by his
wife, formerly Miss Alice Humphrey,
of South Orange; a daughter. Elsie
Brewer, II years old, and two sons,
Graham II. Brewer, jr.. and Theo-
dore Brewer. Mr.. Brewer is also sur
vived by his parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
William A. Brewer, jr.; a brother,
Calvert Brewer, vice-president of the
United States Mortgage and Trust
Company. of New York, and two
sisters, Mrs. Eugene V. Connect and
Mrs. Minott. Mr. Brewers father is u
former president of the Village Board
of Trustees.
Mr. Brewer was born in South Or
ange forty-six years ago and had
always lived there. He attended the
village school and was graduated
from Harvard College in the class OF
1888. He was a former secretary and
treasurer of the Washington Life In
surance Company of New York city.
Mr.. Brewer was elected a member
of the Village Board of Trustees in
1900 and served in that capacity for
three terms until 1906, when he re-
fused reelection. About year
and a half ago he was appointed
a member of the board to fill the
vacancy caused by the resignation
of Frank L. Sage. Mr.. Brewer was
reelected last spring.
He was a former member of the
village boards of health and asses
sors, the Harvard Clubs of New
York and New Jersey; the Under
writer's Club. of New York; Century
Lodge r. and a. NJ, of South Or
ange: the South Orange Field CLUB.