William Karl Brewer

Brief Life History of William Karl

When William Karl Brewer was born on 25 March 1899, in Pinedale, Navajo, Arizona, United States, his father, William Rufus Brewer, was 23 and his mother, Lucretia Annetta Webb, was 18. He married Annie Colquhoun on 1 July 1925, in Tucson, Pima, Arizona, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons. He lived in Maricopa, Arizona, United States in 1930 and Supervisorial District 3, Maricopa, Arizona, United States in 1940. He died on 28 January 1986, in Mesa, Maricopa, Arizona, United States, at the age of 86, and was buried in Snowflake, Navajo, Arizona, United States.

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Family Time Line

William Karl Brewer
1899–1986
Annie Colquhoun
1904–2001
Marriage: 1 July 1925
William Karl Brewer Jr.
1926–1932
Leonard Vance Brewer
1928–1988
Donald A Brewer
1937–2021

Sources (26)

  • Wm Karl Brewer, "The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Church Census Records (Worldwide), 1914-1960"
  • William Karl Brewer, "Arizona, Birth Certificates and Indexes, 1855-1930"
  • William Karl Brewer, "Arizona, County Marriages, 1871-1964"

World Events (8)

1900 · Gold for Cash!

This Act set a price at which gold could be traded for paper money.

1908 · Vance Auditorium

Vance Auditorium opened on February 14, 1908. The auditorium was built by John Thomas Vance. The auditorium was used for community gatherings such as dances and political speeches. Eleven years later, Vance sold the auditorium to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and renamed the building to the Mezona, a combination of the words Mesa and Arizona.

1923 · The President Dies of a Heart Attack

Warrant G. Harding died of a heart attack in the Palace hotel in San Francisco.

Name Meaning

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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Story Highlight

We Are Thirty-One by Estelle Webb Thomas

WE ARE THIRTY-ONE (abridged) By Estelle Webb Thomas, daughter of Edward Milo Webb, Jr. and Charlotte Martha Maxwell Webb Belle (Julia Isabelle Webb Brewer) once said, ruefully, “It seems as if nob …

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