Alexander W. Brewster (5 June 1796 – 6 May 1851) was a prominent merchant and manufacturer, as well as a politician and educator in Erie, Pennsylvania.Find A Grave, retrieved 23 May 2012
Career Brewster was a local educator. He taught at the Grubb Schoolhouse in Mill Creek, Pennsylvania, in 1818.Mill Creek Township, History of Erie County, Pennsylvania, by Samuel P Bates, 1884, retrieved 23 May 2012 He taught at a log house at 7th and Holland in Erie, and at the Erie Academy.
He served as sheriff of Erie County, Pennsylvania, from 1828 to 1831. He served as a burgess in Erie, Pennsylvania, in 1849.
He was the first person buried at Erie Cemetery, a graveyard he helped organize.A Twentieth Century History of Erie County, by John Miller, retrieved at eBooks on 23 May 2012 The Brewster Home, on East 5th Street between Holland and French Streets in Erie, was originally built in 1823 and restored by Erie Insurance in 1984.
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