Arthur B. Brewer
Arthur B. Brewer and Family
In these years of the twentieth century the tiller of the soil is gradually coming into his own, and rewards of constantly increasing scope await the young farmers possessing the same qualities of thrift, industry and business judgment which marked their pioneer fathers, together with the scientific training of modern efficiency. Of his later generation of young men now firmly established in the great business of managing soil and crops in Grant County, Arthur B. Brewer is a very successful example. His fine estate is on Section thirty-four of Liberty Township.
On this place he was born March 1, 1880, a son of Mahlon and Winnie O. (Freeman) Brewer. both parents were long well known and substantial people of Liberty Township. The father died in July, 1907, while the mother passed away June 10, 1895. There were eleven children in the family and the seven living in 1913 are:
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Rosa, wife of A. M. Harvey, of Traverse City, Michigan.
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Myrtle, wife of Emory Scott of Texas
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Fred, who married Rebecca Clark and lives in Kokomo
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Fern, unmarried
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Horace, who is connected with the Shadeland Stock Farm at LaFayette, Indiana
(The above paragraph states seven living children, but the biography only lists 5)
On the old homestead Arthur B. Brewer was reared and attended the Little Ridge School House until he had completed its curriculum, later graduating from the Fairmount Academy. Mr. Brewer is a college man and a thoroughly educated farmer. After his preparatory course he entered the Purdue School of Agriculture and completed the four years course, graduating with the degree of A. B. With this thorough training he returned to the farm, and has made himself an influential factor in local agricultural circles. He takes much part in the Grant county Farmers' Institution, and was at one time a member of the Grant County Boys' Corn School, of which he was secretary. As a farmer he does much in the breeding of thoroughbred Duroc swine, and all the stock on his place is high grade in quality.
On January 1, 1906, Mr. Brewer married Etta Kirkpatrick. Mrs. Brewer was born in Mill Township, of Grant "County, was educated in the public schools and in the Jonesboro High School. They are the parents of three children -Levon O., five years old; Florence O., aged three years; and Winford E., aged one year. The family are members of the Friends Church of Little Ridge, while in politics Mr. Brewer is a Republican, though in the latter years he has supported the Prohibition cause.
Centennial History of Grant County Indiana 1812-1912. The Lewis Publishing Co., 1914.