David Josiah Brewer
David Josiah Brewer was an American jurist and an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court foryears.
Brewer was born to Emilia Field Brewer and Rev. Josiah Brewer, who at the time of his birth were running a school for Greeks in Izmir, Turkey Mrs. Brewers brother Stephen Johnson Field, a future Supreme Court colleague of Brewers, was living with the couple at the time. His parents returned to the United States in 1838 and settled in Connecticut. Brewer attended college at Wesleyan University , where he was a member of the MysticalSociety, and he afterward attended Yale University, graduating Phi Beta Kappa in 1856. While at Yale, Brewer was a classmate of Henry Billings Brown and was greatly influenced by the political scientistprotestant minister Theodore Dwight Woolsey. After graduation, Brewer read law for one year in the office of his uncle David Dudley Field, then enrolled at Albany Law School in Albany, New York, graduating in 1858.
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