"Early History of Thurston County, Washington; Together with Biographies and
Reminiscences of those Identified with Pioneer Days." Compiled and Edited by
Mrs. George E. (Georgiana) Blankenship.  Published in Olympia, Washington, 1914.
p. 274.
 
REESE A. BREWER

     Reese A. Brewer, a well known pioneer of Thurston County, was born in
Arkansas, in 1835. He came across the plains with his mother, two brothers and
two sisters, and settled near Eugene, Oregon, and lived on a farm there until
1860, when he came to Washington and settled on Grand Mound prairie, in the
southern part of Thurston County. Here he lived until his death in 1909.
     Mr. Brewer was a member of the Territorial Legislature in the early
eighties; also a Justice of the Peace at Grand Mound for six years; postmaster
seven years, and served two terms as County Commissioner, and was Chairman of
the Board when the Thurston County court house was built,  which is now the west
half of the present state capitol building.
     Reese A. Brewer was married to Eliza A. Johnson, the daughter of another
Thurston County pioneer family, she having crossed the plains from her native
state, Iowa. in 1852.
     Mrs. Brewer died at the early age of 27 years.

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Submitted to the Washington Bios. Project in May 2007 by Diana Smith.
Submitter has no additional information about the person(s) or family mentioned
above.