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Benjamin Brewster

Born

in New Haven, Connecticut, The United States

November 25, 1860

Died

February 02, 1941

Genre

Poetry, Religion

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The Right Reverend Benjamin Brewster, D.D. (B.D., General Theological Seminary, New York City, 1886; B.A., Yale University, 1882), was the Episcopal Bishop of Maine and Missionary Bishop of Western Colorado. He also served three years as Dean of St. Mark's Cathedral, Salt Lake City, Utah, prior to his 1909 consecration as the 242nd bishop of the Episcopal Church.

While at Yale, he was a member of the Skull & Bones Society, and a contributor to The Yale Literary Magazine.

A direct descendant of Plymouth Colony Elder William Brewster, the Pilgrim colonist leader and spiritual elder of the Plymouth Colony, R.Rev. Brewster's involvement with the American Civil Liberties Union and other economic, political, and religious liberal causes led him to ...more