An Illustrated History of the State of Washington, by Rev. H.K. Hines, D.D., 
The Lewis Publishing Co., Chicago, IL., 1893, pages 409-410

	BREWSTER FERREL, a pioneer of the coast and one of the most respected
farmers of Walla Walla county, Washington, was born in Trumbull county, Ohio,
August 22, 1838. His father was Edward Ferrel, a native of Pennsylvania, who
married Miss Rosela Fish, a native of Ohio. He removed to Iowa in 1854 and there
engaged in farming, dying in 1864, at the age of sixty-four years. Mrs. Ferrel
died in 1881, at the age of seventy-five years. They had a family of ten
children, of whom our subject was the third child. Nine of the family are yet
living.
	Our subject received a common-school education in Ohio and in Iowa, in which
latter State he lived for ten years, engaged in working on a farm. In 1864 he
came to Washington, crossing the plains with a mule team and making the trip in
four months. He bought eighty acres of land where he now lives, but not having
means he was obliged to move slowly before he could really get a start. By close
economy, good management and industry, he was able to pay for his eighty acres,
and now owns a farm of 1,600 acres, upon which he has a good farm house and barn
with all necessary improvements. He now farms 1,000, acres, from which he gets
from 12,000 to 20,000 bushels of grain every year, and he handles some horses
and cattle in connection with his farming.
	Our subject has been a very successful man since he made his home in
Washington, hut what he has accomplished has been the result of his own industry
and good business management. He is much respected in the community.
	Our subject was married in Iowa, in 1861, to Miss Caroline Batt, a native of
Ohio. She has taken a great pride in assisting her husband in "getting on in the
world" and cheerfully accompanied him across time plains. They have had a family
of seven children, as follows: Thomas J.; Ellen, the wife of Walter Barnett, now
living in the Palouse country; Seth; David ; Joseph; Cordelia, the wife of
Charles Maxson; and Minnie. All the children are at home except the two married
daughters.

Submitted to the WA. Bios Project in October 2003 by Jeffrey L. Elmer

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