"COUNTIES OF MORGAN, MONROE & BROWN, INDIANA.  HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL."
CHARLES BLANCHARD, EDITOR.  CHICAGO:  F. A. BATTEY & CO. PUBLISHERS.  1884.
F. A. BATTEY.  F. W. TEPPLE

MORGAN COUNTY, INDIANA
MONROE TOWNSHIP

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DAVID W. BREWER, dealer in groceries, hardware, glass and queensware at
Monrovia, was born in this county June 16, 1835, and is the second child of
Henry and Sarah (Hadley) Brewer;  the former a native of West Virginia, the
latter of North Carolina, and both of English descent.  David was reared to
farming, and soon after his majority married Maria L. Rennard, who died
August 22, 1876, leaving two children--Cynthia and William A.  March 31,
1879, Mr. Brewer married Mattie M. Vihman, who died October 6, 1882.  In
August, 1861, Mr. Brewer enlisted in Company A, Thirty-third Regiment
Indiana Volunteers, served three years, and was taken prisoner at Thompson's
Station, and confined sixty days in Libby Prison;  afterward paroled, and
fought in many battles, as Buzzard Roost, Resaca, Peach Tree Creek, Kenesaw
Mountain and others.  After his discharge, he engaged in farming near
Monrovia;  was afterward engaged in the produce business, and in 1879
entered the livery business until 1882, with a branch at Mooresville, and in
1883 returned to Monrovia and engaged in his present business.  Mr. brewer
cast his first vote for Gen. Fremont in 1856.  He is a member of the I. O. O. F.

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