- 5th Episcopal Bishop of Connecticut Diocese
Biography
Rev Chauncey B Brewster was born 5 September 1848 in Windham, Windham County, Connecticut, United States to Joseph Brewster (1816-1895) and Sarah Jane Bunce (1820-1866) and died 9 April 1941 of unspecified causes. He married Susan Huntington Whitney (1849-1885) 15 October 1873 in New Haven, New Haven County, Connecticut. He married Alice Tucker Stephenson (1856-) 1892 .
Rev Chauncey Bunce Brewster was the fifth Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Connecticut.
Brewster was born in Windham, Connecticut, to the Reverend Joseph Brewster and Sarah Jane Bunce Brewster. His father was rector of St. Paul's Church in Windham and later became rector of Christ Church in New Haven, Connecticut. His younger brother was the future bishop Benjamin Brewster (1860-1941).
Brewster attended Hopkins Grammar School, then went to Yale College, where he graduated in 1868. At Yale he was elected Phi Beta Kappa and was a member of Skull and Bones.[1] He attended Yale's Berkeley Divinity School the following year.[1] He was consecrated as a bishop on October 28, 1897. He was a coadjutor bishop before being diocesan bishop from 1899 to 1928.
Children
| Name | Birth | Death | Joined with |
| Eli Whitney Brewster (1885-1885) | |||
| Name | Birth | Death | Joined with |
| Eleanor L Brewster (1895-) | |||
Siblings
| Name | Birth | Death | Joined with |
| Chauncey Bunce Brewster (1848-1941) | 5 September 1848 Windham, Windham County, Connecticut, United States | 9 April 1941 | Susan Huntington Whitney (1849-1885) Alice Tucker Stephenson (1856-) |
| Letitia Lockwood Brewster (1850-) | |||
| Mary Lockwood Brewster (1852-1892) | |||
| Rebecca Cone Brewster (1854-1939) | |||
| James Henry Brewster (1856-1920) | |||
| William Joseph Brewster (1858-1952) | |||
| Benjamin Brewster (1860-1941) | 25 November 1860 New Haven, New Haven County, Connecticut, United States | 2 February 1941 Portland, Cumberland County, Maine, United States | Stella Yates (1866-1929) Mary Phillips (1884-1941) |
Residences
Mayflower Ancestry
He was a direct descendant of both Love Brewster (1611-1650), a passenger with his father, mother and brother, Wrestling, aboard the Mayflower and a founder of the town of Bridgewater, Massachusetts; and of Elder William Brewster, the Pilgrim colonist leader and spiritual elder of the Plymouth Colony, and passenger aboard the Mayflower and one of the signers of the Mayflower Compact.
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References
- Rev Chauncey Brewster at Find A Grave #93455442
- wikipedia:en:Chauncey B. Brewster - Wikipedia
- The Brewster Genealogy, 1566-1907 - a record of the descendants of William Brewster of the "Mayflower," ruling elder of the Pilgrim church which founded Hampshire colony in 1620;2 Volumes Paperback – September 7, 2010 by Emma C. Brewster Jones (Author). This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923.
- Brewster in New Haven County, Connecticut - first families
- Chauncey Brewster - disambiguation