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Emilia Field Brewer
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Emilia Field (1807-1861) married Reverend Josiah Brewer in 1829. The couple spent nine years as missionaries in Turkey, returning to the United States in 1838. She then founded the Elm Street Female Seminary in New Haven, Connecticut, and raised seven children, one of whom, David Josiah Brewer, became a Supreme Court justice. Her brothers were entrepreneur Cyrus Field, who laid the transatlantic cable, and Stephen J. Field, a member of the Supreme Court.
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Credit lineEmilia Field Brewer. ca. 1875. John Alexander McDougall, born 1810/11-died NY 1894. Smithsonian American Art Museum, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Mrs. David Karrick. CC0.
