Harold Elmer Brewer was born on 22 April 1905 as the son of Elmer Brewer and Gussie Leggell. He married Alta Marie Watts on 24 July 1924, in Linn, Missouri, United States. He died on 20 June 1985, in Chicago, Cook, Illinois, United States, at the age of 80.
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’.
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