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Jacob Elmer Brewer

Birth	:	9 Feb 1863 Mercersburg, Franklin County, Pennsylvania, USA
Death	:	11 Nov 1929 Abilene, Dickinson County, Kansas, USA
Burial	:	Abilene Cemetery, Abilene, Dickinson County, USA
Coordinate	:	38.9322014, -97.2217026
Plot	:	Blk 26, Lot 6.
Description	:	Masonic ***** Bio from A standard history of Kansas and Kansans, Volume 3 By William Elsey Connelley: "The author of the two cent railroad fare law in Kansas is Jacob E. Brewer of Abilene. Mr. Brewer proposed, introduced and successfully advocated that law during his membership in the State Senate from 1905 to 1909, representing the district of Clay and Dickinson counties. Mr. Brewer is an old and well known merchant of Abilene. He has the chief department store there and is also a wholesale commission merchant. It is said that 200 carloads of eggs are gathered... Read More	Masonic *** Bio from A standard history of Kansas and Kansans, Volume 3 By William Elsey Connelley: "The author of the two cent railroad fare law in Kansas is Jacob E. Brewer of Abilene. Mr. Brewer proposed, introduced and successfully advocated that law during his membership in the State Senate from 1905 to 1909, representing the district of Clay and Dickinson counties. Mr. Brewer is an old and well known merchant of Abilene. He has the chief department store there and is also a wholesale commission merchant. It is said that 200 carloads of eggs are gathered and shipped to market through his plant every year. Permanence and solidity is a part of Mr. Brewer's personal and business character. His big store at Abilene occupies the same site where he first began selling goods thirty-five years ago. Besides his store Mr. Brewer is a director of the Abilene National Bank, is a prominent Knight Templar Mason and Shriner, also belongs to the Modern Woodmen of America, and has long taken an active part in republican politics in his section of the state. While in the State Senate he was chairman of the insurance committee, a member of the oil and gas committee, of the fees and salaries committee, and an active worker in behalf of all the advanced and progressive legislation proposed during his term. For a number of years he served as chairman of the Dickinson County Republican Central Committee and has been a delegate to various state conventions. He has always been deeply interested in educational affairs and long served as president of- the Board of Education at Abilene. Born in a log house on a farm in Franklin County, Pennsylvania, February 9, 1863, Mr. Brewer has lived in Kansas since he was a child, and he came to manhood practically without any knowledge of luxury or of the easy circumstances in which many boys are reared. Many would say that Mr. Brewer has throughout been the architect of his own destiny. His parents were Joseph M. and Susan (Angle) Brewer, both natives of Franklin County, Pennsylvania, and industrious and worthy people who came out to Kansas in 1879 and located in Dickinson County. Jacob Brewer was then sixteen years old. His education had been acquired in the public schools and an academy of his. native state. Having no capital nor experience to start business, he laid the foundation of a business career by clerking for nine years in a general store at Abilene. In 1887 Mr. Brewer set up in the mercantile business on his own account and on the same lot where his large department store now stands. As a young man in Abilene he identified himself with the English Lutheran Church. He still holds his membership therein and is one of the official board of the church. On May 12, 1887, at Abilene, he married Miss Annie L. Curtis, a daughter of R. N. Curtis, of Illinois. They have three children: Grace, wife of Grant Willis, a farmer at Kerwin, Kansas; Curtis Angle, a graduate of the Kansas State Agricultural College at Manhattan; and Noble Elmer, who is now in college at Davenport, Iowa." Contributor: P.A. White (48708224) ******** Brewer, Jacob Jacob Brewer Dies Abilene, Kas., Nov. 11 - Jacob E. Brewer, 67 years, assistant state business manager since last April died here early today at his home from a heart attack.He once was state senator from Clay and Dickinson Counties and was active in republican politics.For many years Mr. Brewer conducted a mercantile establishment in Abilene. Later he was a produce shipper. A widow, two sons and one daughter survive. (The Hays Daily, Monday, November 11, 1929, front page) **** Name: Joseph E Brewer Event Type: Census Event Year: 1920 Event Place: Abilene, Dickinson, Kansas, United States Gender: Male Age: 56 Marital Status: Married Race: White Race (Original): White Relationship to Head of Household: Head Relationship to Head of Household (Original): Head Birth Year (Estimated): 1864 Birthplace: Pennsylvania Father's Birthplace: Pennsylvania Mother's Birthplace: Pennsylvania Household Role Gender Age Birthplace Joseph E Brewer Head M 56 Pennsylvania Annie L Brewer Wife F 55 Illinois Curtis A Brewer Son M 26 Kansas Noble E Brewer Son M 25 Kansas Ruth Brown Servant F 16 Canada

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Jacob Elmer Brewer death on 11 Nov 1929 in Abilene, Dickinson County, Kansas, USA
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Latitude: 38.9322014
Longitude: -97.2217026

Family Members:

Parent

Joseph Martin Brewer

(1834 - 1914)

Susan Angle Brewer

(1837 - 1892)

Spouse

Annie Laurie Curtis Brewer

(1864 - 1949)

Siblings

William E Brewer

(1859 - 1931)

Minnie K. Brewer Witwer

(1861 - 1935)

Clyde Shannon Brewer

(1865 - 1925)

Jennie Gertrude Brewer Simkins

(1869 - 1951)

Joseph Ernest Brewer

(1872 - 1928)

Children

Blance Brewer

(1890 - 1891)

Sgt Curtis Angle Brewer

(1893 - 1961)

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Nearby Cemetories:

1. Abilene Cemetery
Abilene, Dickinson County, USA
Coordinate: 38.9322014, -97.2217026

2. Mount Saint Joseph Cemetery
Abilene, Dickinson County, USA
Coordinate: 38.9442170, -97.2218690

3. Saint John's Episcopal Church Memorial Garden
Abilene, Dickinson County, USA
Coordinate: 38.9202700, -97.2137300

4. Dwight D. Eisenhower Municipal Building
Abilene, Dickinson County, USA
Coordinate: 38.9191100, -97.2155700

5. Eisenhower Presidential Library and Museum Chapel
Abilene, Dickinson County, USA
Coordinate: 38.9118450, -97.2129410

6. Brown Memorial Cemetery
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Coordinate: 38.8755950, -97.1993410

7. Farmington Cemetery
Abilene, Dickinson County, USA
Coordinate: 38.8707800, -97.1860200

8. Detroit Cemetery
Detroit, Dickinson County, USA
Coordinate: 38.9439300, -97.1255100

9. Union Cemetery
Buckeye, Dickinson County, USA
Coordinate: 39.0243988, -97.1856003

10. Mount Hope Cemetery
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Coordinate: 38.8869019, -97.1121979

11. Zion Cemetery
Abilene, Dickinson County, USA
Coordinate: 39.0319240, -97.2045850

12. Prairie Mound Cemetery
Solomon, Dickinson County, USA
Coordinate: 38.9193993, -97.3527985

13. Scheiller Cemetery
Enterprise, Dickinson County, USA
Coordinate: 38.8669014, -97.1106033

14. Bethel Cemetery
Moonlight, Dickinson County, USA
Coordinate: 39.0022011, -97.1110535

15. Lutheran Cemetery #17
Enterprise, Dickinson County, USA
Coordinate: 38.9009209, -97.0734787

16. Prairiedale Cemetery
Talmage, Dickinson County, USA
Coordinate: 39.0471992, -97.2652969

17. Newbern Cemetery
Holland, Dickinson County, USA
Coordinate: 38.8133011, -97.2427979

18. Buckeye Cemetery
Buckeye, Dickinson County, USA
Coordinate: 39.0463070, -97.1665840

19. Pleasant Hill Cemetery
Enterprise, Dickinson County, USA
Coordinate: 38.8885150, -97.0749560

20. Mount Calvary Cemetery
Saline County, USA
Coordinate: 38.9247017, -97.3891983

21. Harmony Cemetery
Holland, Dickinson County, USA
Coordinate: 38.7985430, -97.2632760

22. Roggendorf Family Cemetery
New Cambria, Saline County, USA
Coordinate: 38.8803940, -97.3926160

23. Lemcke Cemetery
New Cambria, Saline County, USA
Coordinate: 38.8770730, -97.4022430

24. Indian Hill Cemetery
Chapman, Dickinson County, USA
Coordinate: 38.9714012, -97.0327988