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Whitney-Field-Brewer-Wells family of California

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Stephen J. Field Stephen Johnson Field (1816-1899) — also known as Stephen J. Field — of Yuba County, Calif. Born in Haddam, Middlesex County, Conn., November 4, 1816. Went to California for the 1849 Gold Rush; member of California state assembly 14th District, 1851-52; justice of California state supreme court, 1857-63; chief justice of California state supreme court, 1859-63; Associate Justice of U.S. Supreme Court, 1863-97; arrested in San Francisco, August 16, 1889, on charges of being party to the alleged murder of David S. Terry; released on bail; ultimately the killing was ruled to be justifiable homicide. Episcopalian. Member, Freemasons. Died in Washington, D.C., April 9, 1899 (age 82 years, 156 days). Interment at Rock Creek Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
  Relatives: Uncle of David Josiah Brewer and Charlotte Anita Whitney.
  Political family: Whitney-Field-Brewer-Wells family of California.
  See also NNDB dossier — Find-A-Grave memorial
  Books about Stephen J. Field: Paul Kens, Justice Stephen Field : Shaping Liberty from the Gold Rush to the Gilded Age
  Image source: American Monthly Review of Reviews, September 1897
  David Josiah Brewer (1837-1910) — of Leavenworth, Leavenworth County, Kan. Born in Smyrna (now Izmir), Turkey, June 20, 1837. Lawyer; county judge in Kansas, 1862-65; district judge in Kansas 1st District, 1865-69; justice of Kansas state supreme court, 1870-84; Judge of U.S. Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit, 1884-90; Associate Justice of U.S. Supreme Court, 1889-1910; died in office 1910. Congregationalist. Died in Washington, D.C., March 28, 1910 (age 72 years, 281 days). Interment at Mt. Muncie Cemetery, Lansing, Kan.
  Relatives: Son of Rev. Josiah Brewer and Emilia (Field) Brewer; married, October 3, 1861, to Louise R. Landon; married, June 5, 1901, to Emma Miner Mott; father-in-law of Wellington Wells; nephew of Stephen Johnson Field.
  Political family: Whitney-Field-Brewer-Wells family of California.
  See also federal judicial profile — Wikipedia article — Ballotpedia article — NNDB dossier — Find-A-Grave memorial
  George E. Whitney — Member of California state senate, 1880. Burial location unknown.
  Relatives: Father of Charlotte Anita Whitney.
  Political family: Whitney-Field-Brewer-Wells family of California.
  Charlotte Anita Whitney (c.1868-1955) — also known as Anita Whitney — of California. Born about 1868. Communist. Social worker; in 1919, she gave a radical speech in Oakland, California; as a result, she was arrested, tried, and found guilty of violating the state's syndicalism law; pardoned by Governor C. C. Young.; candidate for U.S. Senator from California, 1928, 1940 (Communist). Female. Died in San Francisco, Calif., February 4, 1955 (age about 87 years). Burial location unknown.
  Relatives: Daughter of George E. Whitney; niece of Stephen Johnson Field.
  Political family: Whitney-Field-Brewer-Wells family of California.
  Wellington Wells (1868-1955) — also known as Bill Wells — of Boston, Suffolk County, Mass. Born in Arlington, Middlesex County, Mass., April 18, 1868. Republican. Lawyer; member of Massachusetts state senate Fifth Suffolk District, 1923-24. Baptist; later Episcopalian. Member, Freemasons. Died, in Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Suffolk County, Mass., May 23, 1955 (age 87 years, 35 days). Interment at Forest Hills Cemetery, Jamaica Plain, Boston, Mass.
  Relatives: Son-in-law of David Josiah Brewer.
  Political family: Whitney-Field-Brewer-Wells family of California.
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