When Hulda Jane Brewer was born in January 1847, in Rochester, Rochester Township, Fulton, Indiana, United States, her father, Andrew Jackson Brewer, was 31 and her mother, Jane Warren, was 28. She married William Mathers in 1865, in Indiana, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 daughters. She lived in Franklin Township, Kosciusko, Indiana, United States in 1860. She died on 31 December 1920, in Kalamazoo Township, Kalamazoo, Michigan, United States, at the age of 73, and was buried in Riverside Cemetery, Dowagiac, Cass, Michigan, United States.
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Dowagiac was platted in 1848.
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
This Act was to restrict the power of the President removing certain office holders without approval of the Senate. It denies the President the power to remove any executive officer who had been appointed by the president with the advice and consent of the Senate, unless the Senate approved the removal during the next full session of Congress. The Amendment was later repealed.
English: occupational name for a brewer of beer or ale, from Middle English brewere ‘brewer’ (an agent derivative of Old English brēowan ‘to brew’). Compare Brewster .
English (of Norman origin): Anglicized form of French Bruyère (see Bruyere ), a habitational name from a place so called in Calvados, France, from Old French bruiere ‘heath’.
Americanized form (translation into English) of Dutch Brouwer , German Brauer or Breuer , etc., all occupational names meaning ‘brewer’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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