Person:Silas Brewer (1)

LDS film # 09962913, Excerpts from History of Kentucky, Illustrated, 1885, by Battle, Perrin, and Kniffin. Appeared in the Central City Messenger and Times-Argus, Central City, Kentucky, in seven installments during May, June, and July 1959.

Silas H. Brewer Operated Flour Mill, Saw Mill, Carding Factory on Green

SILAS H. BREWER, Muhlenberg County, was born in Shelby County, KY, September 1, 1819. He is a son of John Brewer, a native of Holland, who immigrated to the United States when a young man, and settled in Pennsylvania, where he married Mary House. He afterward, in 1810, removed to Kentucky, where he died in 1821. He left a family of six children. Silas H. Brewer, at the age of eighteen years, was launched on the sea of active life, and from that time has made his way in the world unaided. His early education was such as could be obtained at the schools of the period, and was quite limited. At the age of twenty-one he became proficient as a mercantile bookkeeper, and in that capacity was employed by the Union Saw Mill Company, of Louisville, KY, for ten years. in 1848, he erected a flouring-mill at Skilesville, on Green River, and up to the present time (1885), he has been employed in the milling and carding business, in connection with the superintendency of his farm of 100 acres of well-improved land, lying in Muhlenberg County. his dwelling house, barns, warehouse, orchards and other improvements are among the best in the county; he also has the most excellent waterpower privilege on the Green River, and a location that is conducive to health. February 21, 1813 (before his birth, this must be incorrect), Mr. Brewer married Ann E. Downing, of Louisville, KY. Nine children have been born to them, five of whom are living: James F., S. Herbert, Phoebe, Elizabeth and Anna D. Mr. and Mrs. Brewer and four children are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church South. Mr. Brewer is a member of the Rochester Lodge, No. 270, of the ancient order of Masonry, through which he has passed to the chair of master. He is a Democrat and takes a lively interest in the political issues of the day.

1. ↑ ^1.0 1.1 Ancestry.com. 1860 United States Federal Census. (Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2009. Images reproduced by FamilySearch.Original data - 1860 U.S. census, population schedule. NARA microfilm publication M653, 1,438 rolls. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records).

   Online publication - Ancestry.com. 1860 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2004.Original data - United States of America, Bureau of the Census. Eighth Census of the United States, 1860. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1860.M653, 1,438 rolls. District 2, Muhlenberg, Kentucky, post office Model Mills, roll M653_388, page 0, image 763.