Show DIED BEFORE DOCTOR GAM Associate Justice Brewer of United States Supreme Court Stricken With Apoplexy at atHis atHis atHis His Home in Washington T US David WASHINGTON vv Josiah II re associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States State died tonight at nt from a stroke of His UI death occurred before he be could be carried to his bin bed Mm Un Brewer Brever I Iran vall with him when the end came canie Brewer Brener was un 75 tl years yearn old he end Was wa an altogether unexpected Although he be lied bud not bern been ben feeling wen well for far the lant few slays lu s the lie aged agell jurist was wan up out t today tOllay and apparently In good health and autI lie In equally good at nt dinner and aUli spent the even evening I up rending reading Shortly before 10 he lie retired I to his room toom and within a few moments Mrs Brewer heard a heavy fall and went to Investigate She found her I husband prone on the tho floor of the bath bathroom bathroom bathroom room lie He did not regain conscious consciousness ness and died before a physician hast hastily hastIly ily n summoned could reach the house The two daughters of the aged jurist Mrs James F Karrich and Mrs H J JI Jetmore were summoned at once but I reached the residence too late I Appointed From Kansas Justice Brewer came to the Supreme Court from the federal court in Kan Kansas Kansas Kansas sas sas He was the second oldest member of the Court Justice Harlan Hurlan only being his senior He was regarded as a the I most democratic of all the members of I Ithe the Court most affable approachable I and accommodating He was the one man on the bench b who had proof copies oples of his opinions prepared for the news newspapers papers and this he lie did consistently Another characteristic of or the jurist was vas he never took any an of the time of the Court or the public In announcing his opinions He lie reached the conclusion conclusion sion probably many years rears ago that the audience In the courtroom was so s ex extremely extremely limited it was a pure waste of ot time to read opinions there He would give in a few words his conclusions and then hand down the proof sheets of his opinion always completely ar arranged arranged arranged ranged 1 Justice Brewer essentially was a western man and his bla sympathies were I always with the west He was deeply versed In corporation law and Will nl be I missed immensely during the framing of the opinions of the supreme court courton on the momentous questions concerning the Standard Oil and tobacco cases now under consideration May Delay Trust Truitt Decisions In his earlier days Justice Brewer camped regularly in the Rocky moun mountains mountains mountains and was fond of outdoor life He was a member of the old Field family being a nephew of the late ate Justice Stephen J Field and Cyrus W V Field Justice Brewers death raises a serious question as to the tile action of the court regarding the Standard Oil and Ameri Amen American can Tobacco company suits and it is not improbable the cases will have to tobe tobe tobe be retried since there now remain but seven justices to pass upon them Jus Justice Justice Justice tice Moody not having participated in inthe Inthe inthe the trials trial by b reason of illness Justice Brewer Drewer was the one member of the supreme court who was in al almost almost almost most constan demand as a lecturer and after atter dinner speaker He lIe was an orator of unusual ability Wit ita a pic picturesque picturesque picturesque personality a rich voice and anda a command of strong and powerful English he lie always held his audience until his last word wor had died away He lIe expressed his opinions forcibly and arid clearly on any nn subject unless for some reason It might effect the pend pending pendIng ing decision of the supreme court David J Jo Brewer was born In Smyrna Asia Sla Minor June 20 1837 the son of ot Continued on Page Two JUSTICE BREWER DES SUDDENLY Continued from Page One Rev Josiah and Amelia Amela Field Brewer He was graduated from Yale Tale university in 1856 and the Albany Law Lw school in 1858 He received degrees of LL LL D from the University of Iowa In 1884 Washburn college in 1888 Yale in 1901 University of at Wisconsin in 1900 Wes Wesleyan Wesleyan Wesleyan leyan university in 1901 University of t Vermont In 1904 Bowdoin In 1905 Justice Brewer was appointed to the supreme court by President Benjamin Harrison to succeed Justice Stanley Matthews Mathews taking his seat January 6 1890 He was brought by his parents prents to this country from Asia Minor In the autumn of 1838 His mother the daughter of Rev David Dudley Field and a sister of ot Stephen J Field Fields ac accompanied accompanied companied her husband to Turkey as asa asa asa a missionary in 1830 After his graduation from the tha Albany NY law school In 1853 he studied law lawin lawIn lawin in the office of ot his uncle David Dudley Field in New York He entered the practice of law in Leavenworth Kan There he lie progressed rapidly in his pro profession profession and was made States tats com corn commissioner commissioner missioner of the circuit court in 1861 judge judEe of the probate and criminal courts of ot Leavenworth county count and of the First district of Kansas dis district district attorney for Leavenworth and judge of ot the supreme court of Kan Kansas Kansas Kansas sas He was appointed d by bv President Arthur judge of the United States circuit court judg for the Eighth circuit In 1884 and served sered five years Following this service Pres President PresIdent President ident Harrison appointed him associate justice of at the supreme court of the Unit United United United ed States v Notable Decisions While upon the supreme bench of ot Kan Kansas Kansas sas Justice Brewer handed down the de decision decision decision that women were eligible to the theoffice theoffice office of county superintendent of pub public lie lic lc schools and another sustaining the right of women to money paid by them at the time of their marriage and to all mOney earned by them thereafter As United States State circuit judge he entered catered the decree sustaining the Maxwell land grant gant the largest private grant gant sustained in the time United States Justice Brewer married Louise Louis R n Lan Landon Landon Landon don of Burlington ton Vt VI on October 3 o 1861 who died April Apri 3 1898 On June 5 1901 he married Emma Emma L Mott of Washington D C justice Brewer was appointed by Pres President PresIdent ident Cleveland In 1896 to the Venezuelan boundary commission In 1899 he ho was a member of the arbi arbitration arbitration tribunal tribunal He was president of the Universal Congress of Lawyers and Jurists during durin the Louisiana Louisiana Purchase ex exposition exposition exposition position at St Louis Luis In 1904 Justice Brewer was the author of The Pew to the Pulpit The Twentieth Cen Century Century tury From Another Viewpoint Amer American Amer Amerlean ican lean tur Citizenship and an the United States Christian Christan Nation |