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Show ALEXANDER LELAND BREWER DIES OF SPANISH INFLUENZA AT NAVAL TRAINING STATION i I Tho death of Alexander Iceland Brewer, son of Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Brewer of Ogden, .occurred Saturday, at 4:45 p. m., at tho Great Lakes Naval training station, near Chicago, accord-, ing to advices received by the family late Saturday. The young man's death was due to pneumonia-, induced by :in attack of Spanish inlluenza. A. L. Brewer had boen notified of his son's illness and left Friday for Chicago. Chi-cago. He received news of the death just before arriving. Tho body is being brought to Ogden and will probably arrive Tuesday. Leland Brewer was just twenty-two years of age on February 14, last. He had been working in the shipyards at Philadelphia until three weeks ago when he received an appointment to the naval training station on the Great Lakes. Just a few days after his arrival ar-rival at the training station, ho be-camo be-camo ill of Spanish influenza and shortly was in such a serious condition that his relatives were summoned. He is survived by his father and mother, and nine brothers and, sia'.ors as follows: Mrs. Win. A. Corn of New York City; Herbert, Frank; Chauncey, Margaret, Mar-garet, Joseph, Ruth, Elizabeth and Elolse. Chauncey Brewer enlisted a few months ago in the marine corps and is in training at Mare Island, Cal. Leland Brewer had been a student at Weber Normal college prior to the outbreak of the war. lie was very well known in Ogden and prominent among the younger people. |
