Brewer, Willson

BREWER, MOORE

Posted By: Laura Schnabel (email)
Date: 2/12/2007 at 15:23:48

Biographical Record and Portrait Album of Webster and Hamilton Counties Iowa
Published 1888

Page 282

Willson Brewer, one of the first settlers of Hamilton County, was a native of Virginia, but when four years old his parents moved to Henry County, Indiana, where he was reared and was there married to Margaret Moore, a native of Henry County. In 1850 they came to Iowa and settled in Hamilton County, Mr. Brewer entering Government land ten miles south of the present town of Webster City. He died in 1857, leaving a widow and eleven children, five of whom are living--Benjamin R., Sarah Jane, William, Walter and Margaret. Jackson, John Thomas, Julia and Nancy are deceased. Mrs. Brewer is still a resident of Webster City, where she has made her home for so many years.