Male

June 1, 1796

November 19, 1872

Tyringham, MA

Turkey
Wethersfield, CT
New Haven, CT
Middletown, CT
Stockbridge, MA

Emilia Field Brewer (December 1, 1829)

Born on June 1, 1796 in Tryingham, Massachusetts, Josiah Brewer went on to have a life as an active reverend and educator. Prior to his marriage to Emilia Field in 1829 he traveled to Smyrna and Constantinople in the Ottoman Empire, and to Greece. He returned to the United States after two years of traveling and was engaged by a Ladies Greek Association in New Haven, Connecticut to undertake the education of young women among the Greeks. On December 1, 1829 Josiah was wed to Emilia Field, with whom he would have nine children. Nine days after their marriage the couple sailed for Smyrna. Arriving on February 5, 1830, they went straight to work on establishing a local school. The Brewers established two schools. The first a charity school for the education of Greek girls, and the second a school ...for the children of European and American merchants. After nine years of residing in the Ottoman Empire the Brewers returned to the United States, where Josiah served as Chaplain of the State Prison in Wethersfield, Connecticut. From 1844-1850 his family lived in New Haven, Connecticut, where he and his wife established the Elm Street Female Seminary. From 1850-1857 they resided in Middletown, Connecticut, where they operated a similar school In 1857 Josiah and his wife moved to Stockbridge, Massachusetts where they both lived the remainder of their lives.
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Josiah and Emilia's son, David J. Brewer, became a Justice of the Kansas Supreme Court (1870-1884); a Judge of the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit (1884-1889); and a Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1889-1910).

Graduated from Yale in 1821 and attended the Andover Theological Seminary in 1825

Educator; Religious Calling