He graduated from Washburn University in 1890. He was a prominent lawyer, successful politician and noted orator. He served as postmaster of St. Joseph, Missouri.
Arthur W. Brewster, a lawyer of prominence in Buchanan county, is at the present time postmaster of St. Joseph, having been appointed to the office by President Roosevelt February 8, 1902. Mr. Brewster was born in Ashtabula, Ohio, in 1865, and is a son of A. S. Brewster, who took his family to Kansas in 1869. Arthur W. Brewster was mainly reared in Kansas, being four years old when his parents moved to that state, and received his education in the grade and high schools and at Washburn College, from which he was graduated in 1890. He then studied law two years under the direction of his father and was admitted to the bar in Kansas, immediately thereafter moving to St. Joseph. He entered the law office of Huston & Parrish, and within a year formed a partnership with the present police judge, P. J. Carolus, under the firm name of Carolus & Brewster. In the fall of 1894 he was elected to the Missouri state senate, in which office he served four years, and in the meantime continued in the practice of the law. In 1896, when Mr. Parrish was elected judge of the circuit court, the old firm was dissolved, and in 1897 the firm of Huston & Brewster was established with offices in the German-American Bank building. It was a strong combination of legal talent and continued with success until dissolved by the death of Mr. Huston on November 24, 1903. Mr. Brewster was the Republican candidate for congress in 1898. but was defeated by the Democratic nominee, C. F. Cochran. He was always active in working for Republican success in the campaigns, and stands high in the councils of his party.
On Christmas day, 1894, Mr. Brewster was united in marriage with Ada Kanaga, of Hutchinson, Kans., with whom he had attended Washburn College at Topeka. Religiously, Mrs. Brewster is a member of the Congregational church. Fraternally A. W. Brewster is a member of the Knights of Pythias, and of the Ancient Order of United Workmen. Business address. Federal building; residence, 509 North Ninth street, St. Joseph, Missouri.
From M. L. Van Nada, editor, The Book of Missourians: The Achievements and Personnel of Notable Living Men and Women of Missouri in the Opening Decade of the Twentieth Century (Chicago, IL: T. J. Steele & Co., 1906), p. 20.
Arthur W. Brewster, a lawyer of prominence in Buchanan county, is at the present time postmaster of St. Joseph, having been appointed to the office by President Roosevelt February 8, 1902. Mr. Brewster was born in Ashtabula, Ohio, in 1865, and is a son of A. S. Brewster, who took his family to Kansas in 1869. Arthur W. Brewster was mainly reared in Kansas, being four years old when his parents moved to that state, and received his education in the grade and high schools and at Washburn College, from which he was graduated in 1890. He then studied law two years under the direction of his father and was admitted to the bar in Kansas, immediately thereafter moving to St. Joseph. He entered the law office of Huston & Parrish, and within a year formed a partnership with the present police judge, P. J. Carolus, under the firm name of Carolus & Brewster. In the fall of 1894 he was elected to the Missouri state senate, in which office he served four years, and in the meantime continued in the practice of the law. In 1896, when Mr. Parrish was elected judge of the circuit court, the old firm was dissolved, and in 1897 the firm of Huston & Brewster was established with offices in the German-American Bank building. It was a strong combination of legal talent and continued with success until dissolved by the death of Mr. Huston on November 24, 1903. Mr. Brewster was the Republican candidate for congress in 1898. but was defeated by the Democratic nominee, C. F. Cochran. He was always active in working for Republican success in the campaigns, and stands high in the councils of his party.
On Christmas day, 1894, Mr. Brewster was united in marriage with Ada Kanaga, of Hutchinson, Kans., with whom he had attended Washburn College at Topeka. Religiously, Mrs. Brewster is a member of the Congregational church. Fraternally A. W. Brewster is a member of the Knights of Pythias, and of the Ancient Order of United Workmen. Business address. Federal building; residence, 509 North Ninth street, St. Joseph, Missouri.
From M. L. Van Nada, editor, The Book of Missourians: The Achievements and Personnel of Notable Living Men and Women of Missouri in the Opening Decade of the Twentieth Century (Chicago, IL: T. J. Steele & Co., 1906), p. 20.
He graduated from Washburn University in 1890. He was a prominent lawyer, successful politician and noted orator. He served as postmaster of St. Joseph, Missouri.
Arthur W. Brewster, a lawyer of prominence in Buchanan county, is at the present time postmaster of St. Joseph, having been appointed to the office by President Roosevelt February 8, 1902. Mr. Brewster was born in Ashtabula, Ohio, in 1865, and is a son of A. S. Brewster, who took his family to Kansas in 1869. Arthur W. Brewster was mainly reared in Kansas, being four years old when his parents moved to that state, and received his education in the grade and high schools and at Washburn College, from which he was graduated in 1890. He then studied law two years under the direction of his father and was admitted to the bar in Kansas, immediately thereafter moving to St. Joseph. He entered the law office of Huston & Parrish, and within a year formed a partnership with the present police judge, P. J. Carolus, under the firm name of Carolus & Brewster. In the fall of 1894 he was elected to the Missouri state senate, in which office he served four years, and in the meantime continued in the practice of the law. In 1896, when Mr. Parrish was elected judge of the circuit court, the old firm was dissolved, and in 1897 the firm of Huston & Brewster was established with offices in the German-American Bank building. It was a strong combination of legal talent and continued with success until dissolved by the death of Mr. Huston on November 24, 1903. Mr. Brewster was the Republican candidate for congress in 1898. but was defeated by the Democratic nominee, C. F. Cochran. He was always active in working for Republican success in the campaigns, and stands high in the councils of his party.
On Christmas day, 1894, Mr. Brewster was united in marriage with Ada Kanaga, of Hutchinson, Kans., with whom he had attended Washburn College at Topeka. Religiously, Mrs. Brewster is a member of the Congregational church. Fraternally A. W. Brewster is a member of the Knights of Pythias, and of the Ancient Order of United Workmen. Business address. Federal building; residence, 509 North Ninth street, St. Joseph, Missouri.
From M. L. Van Nada, editor, The Book of Missourians: The Achievements and Personnel of Notable Living Men and Women of Missouri in the Opening Decade of the Twentieth Century (Chicago, IL: T. J. Steele & Co., 1906), p. 20.
Arthur W. Brewster, a lawyer of prominence in Buchanan county, is at the present time postmaster of St. Joseph, having been appointed to the office by President Roosevelt February 8, 1902. Mr. Brewster was born in Ashtabula, Ohio, in 1865, and is a son of A. S. Brewster, who took his family to Kansas in 1869. Arthur W. Brewster was mainly reared in Kansas, being four years old when his parents moved to that state, and received his education in the grade and high schools and at Washburn College, from which he was graduated in 1890. He then studied law two years under the direction of his father and was admitted to the bar in Kansas, immediately thereafter moving to St. Joseph. He entered the law office of Huston & Parrish, and within a year formed a partnership with the present police judge, P. J. Carolus, under the firm name of Carolus & Brewster. In the fall of 1894 he was elected to the Missouri state senate, in which office he served four years, and in the meantime continued in the practice of the law. In 1896, when Mr. Parrish was elected judge of the circuit court, the old firm was dissolved, and in 1897 the firm of Huston & Brewster was established with offices in the German-American Bank building. It was a strong combination of legal talent and continued with success until dissolved by the death of Mr. Huston on November 24, 1903. Mr. Brewster was the Republican candidate for congress in 1898. but was defeated by the Democratic nominee, C. F. Cochran. He was always active in working for Republican success in the campaigns, and stands high in the councils of his party.
On Christmas day, 1894, Mr. Brewster was united in marriage with Ada Kanaga, of Hutchinson, Kans., with whom he had attended Washburn College at Topeka. Religiously, Mrs. Brewster is a member of the Congregational church. Fraternally A. W. Brewster is a member of the Knights of Pythias, and of the Ancient Order of United Workmen. Business address. Federal building; residence, 509 North Ninth street, St. Joseph, Missouri.
From M. L. Van Nada, editor, The Book of Missourians: The Achievements and Personnel of Notable Living Men and Women of Missouri in the Opening Decade of the Twentieth Century (Chicago, IL: T. J. Steele & Co., 1906), p. 20.
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