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- ID: I001
Name: Arthur Percy BREWSTER
Sex: M
Birth: BET. 8 MAY 1878 - 6 MAY 1879 in Newburgh or Coldenham, NY 1 2
Death: 19 MAY 1959 in at home, 111 Piaget Ave, Clifton, NJ, bur Cedar Lawn Sec 4 Lot 216 3 of Prostate cancer that spread to spine 4
Fact 1: At 16 with $12.68 sent to work bike factory in Bridgeport CT . Stayed in a boarding house. 5 6
Fact 2: Worked for Singer supposedly, invented attachment for industrial sewing machines see photo. 7
Fact 3: BET. 1906 - 1907 Moved to Passaic bec. "Aunt Bess" was there, or vice versa? Singer in Passaic or CT? 1907 occ: machinist. 8 9 10
Fact 4: Lived in boarding house in Passaic, later with "Aunt Bess" and her family. 11
Fact 5: Acheson Hardin Hankerchiefs- Sup. of Manufacturing, but not right away. 12
Fact 6: Co-workers said they would shave their heads if he married before age 40. 13
Fact 7: 1920 Living at 107 Kipp Ave, Clifton, w wife Helena (Meyer) 14 15
Fact 11: Enjoyed carving and taught grandaughter, Susan. 16
Fact 12: Tissues killed handkerchief manufacturing. 17
Event: Fact Financially secure during Depression. Able to take fam. on vacations & own car. 18
Event: Fact 4a 1910 Machinist, living 152 Van Buren, Passaic, NJ, with Bess (Brewster) & her husb. William Buchanan 19
Event: Fact 4b 1916 Now married and moved to 164 Jackson, Passaic. 20
Reference Number: 1
Medical Information: Heart attack in approx 1952
Father: John \ Jack Quackenbush \ Quackenbos BREWSTER b: 22 APR 1848 in Newburgh, NY
Mother: Mary Emma SEARS b: 17 SEP 1847 in Newburgh, NY
Marriage 1 Helena \ Helen Catherine (again) MEYER b: 13 DEC 1893 in At home, 711 Amsterdam Ave, New York City, NY
Married: 9 JUN 1915 in Manse of First Presbyterian Church, Passaic, N.J. 21
Marriage fact: in Witness: Florence Buchanan, J. Carl Warhurst - 316 Gregory Ave.
Children
Alfred S. BREWSTER b: ABT. 2 AUG 1917 in Passaic, N.J.
Living BREWSTER
Ralph Arthur BREWSTER b: 17 MAR 1924 in Passaic, N.J.
Sources:
March 7, 1986 letter from Florence Buchanan to Chris Brewster. Transcription by Roy White of Brewster Family Bible then in possession of Florence Buchanan has year as 1878. But APB and his sister always said the date was 1 yr too early. 1880 census 1 yr.
Title: 1900 Census, New York, Orange County, Newburgh town ED 46
Page: pg 81 B stamped or written sheet 2B
Text: Shows Arthur P as born May 1878.
Susan Cocker Hopkins - present at the time, as were Helena and Olive.
Photocopy of Internment Card from Cedar Lawn in poss.of Susan C. Hopkins and Olive Clark. Art was paralyzed by the cancer before his death and died at home with family, including Susan present.
Title: Clark, Olive Brewster: conversation with Susan C. Hopkins 26 March 1999
Title: Historical Value of the U S Dollar
Note: Data compiled by the Department of Labor Statistics and the Bureau of Living Conditions Standards
Repository:
Note: http://www.users.mis.net/~chesnut/pages/value.htm
Media: Electronic
Text: http://www.users.mis.net/~chesnut/pages/value.htm, was the simplest to use of sites found by Google. Simplified, a constant 1991 dollar is estimated to have equalled about $14.85 for the period 1875-1900. So Arthur Brewster's $12.68 would have been the equivalent of about $188 in 1991. That seems a good deal more substantial than the $12 of about 1895-6 he was about 16.
Conversation with Olive Brewster Clark, 26 March 1999. Susan Hopkins
Title: Clark, Olive Brewster: as told to Susan Hopkins 26 March 1999
Text: Olive believes that Art came to Passaic because his sister and her husband were already there. However, there's evidence that it was the other way around.
Title: 1910 Census, New Jersey, Passaic County, Passaic City of, Ward 4, ED 1; T624_905
Page: stamped 142 A, Ancestry.com image 33 of 38, printed & saved from Heritage Quest
Text: 152 Van Buren St, dwelling # 172, family #362, linew 29-33
- Buchanan, William; head, male,white, age 35, married 1, for 12 years, self and parents born New York, speaks English, occ.- foreman at beef Co., wage worker
- ___ Bessie, wife, f, w, 34, married 1, for 12 years, two children born, two living, self and parents born New York, no occ
- ___ Florance, daughter, f, w, 11, single, self & parents born NY,
- ____ Bertrum, son, m,w,8,s, born New Jersey, parents born NY, speaks Eng, no occ.
- Bruster, Arthur, boarder, m, w, 31, s, self & parents born NY, speaks Eng, foreman, machinist, wage worker,
[Note: Arthur is actually Arthur Brewster, brother to Bessie, and therefore William's brother-in-law. Arthur's daughter, has reported that he lived on Van Buren at one time, lived with the Buchanans, Bess was his sister, & Bill invited Art
to come to Passaic.]
Title: Passaic, New Jersey, City Directory, 1907
Repository:
Note: Passaic Public Library
Media: Book
Text: Am not at all sure when the information was collected for 1907, i.e. was it collected in 1906 for 1907? First appearance for both Arthur and his brother-in-law, Bill Buchanan:
pg 79 Brewster, Arthur P., machinist, h 51 Burgess pl. [This is the same block as where his future wife was living with her parents.]
[There is also a Walter Brewster sec. Passaic Print Works, h. N. Y. City. - so he is living in NYC.]
"pg. 82, Buchanan, William W., mgr, h 51 Burgess pl."
March 7, 1986 letter from Florence Buchanan to Chris Brewster.
Title: Clark, Olive Brewster: conversation with Susan C. Hopkins 1997, Jan 8
Recollection of Olive and Ralph. Photo of these guys with shved heads and big grins.
Title: 1920 Census, New Jersey, Passaic County, City of Clifton, Ward 3, ED 7
Page: sheet 3A, Ancestry.com image 5 of 36, NARA microfilm T625-1062
Text: Indexed as Arthur P. Brenuten
Title: Clark, Olive: as told to Susan Hopkins 14 July 2004
Text: 107 Kipp became renamed Piaget Avenue and renumbered twice, becoming 113, then 111.
Recollection of Susan. Some of his carvings are in her posession.
Recollection of Olive Brewster Clark.
Conversation with Olive Brewster Clark, Susan Hopkins
Title: Passaic, New Jersey, City Directory, 1910
Page: 97, 101
Text: Brewster is on pg 97, and Buchanan on 101, same occupations as 1907.
Title: Passaic, New Jersey, City Directory, 1916
Page: 110
Text: New address, same occ.
Family records once in posession of Florence Buchanan
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1878 - 1959 (81 años)
