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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 23. Chapters: Kansas Court of Appeals Judges, Kansas Supreme Court justices, David Josiah Brewer, Warren W. Shaw, James B. Pearson, Lawton Nuss, Daniel Biles, Lyman U. Humphrey, George Washington Glick, Carol A. Beier, Harold S. Herd, Robert Crozier, Stephen Six, Robert E. Davis, Carlos Murguia, Kay McFarland, David Archibald Harvey, Joseph Pierron, Lee A. Johnson, Joseph Taggart, Eric Rosen, Marla Luckert, William Howard Thompson, Nancy Caplinger, Jerry Elliott, Fred Hall, Alfred W. Benson, Robert L. Gernon, John R. Goodin, Melissa Standridge, Walter A. Huxman, Walter Lewis McVey, Jr., Charles I. Sparks, Tyler C. Lockett, Alfred Metcalf Jackson, Mary Beck Briscoe, Rollin R. Rees, William R. Brown, Steve Leben, Henry F. Mason, Robert H. Miller, Richard Joseph Hopkins, Earl Eugene O'Connor, Arthur Johnson Mellott, Henry W. Green, Kathryn Hoefer Vratil, Christel Marquardt, John Calvin Pollock, Patrick McAnany, Gary Rulon, Michael Buser, Richard D. Greene, Stephen D. Hill, Tom Malone, Richard Ely Bird. Excerpt: David Josiah Brewer (June 20, 1837 - March 28, 1910) was an American jurist and an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court for 20 years. 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. Brewer's brother Stephen Johnson Field, a future Supreme Court colleague of Brewer's, 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 (1851-1854) and Yale University, graduating Phi Beta Kappa from the latter in 1856. While at Yale, Brewer was a classmate of Henry Billings Brown and was "greatly influenced by the political scientist-protestant minister Theodore Dwight Woolsey." After graduation, Brewer read law for one year in ...
