This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Brower, Webster Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.newyork.counties.fulton/34.350.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Father: Abra(ha)m Brower (1783-1877), born Oppenheim (now Fulton Co., NY, d. LaSalle Co., IL) mother: Phylotha Webster. Sone unusual given names appear in this family. It's apparently a rather high-achieving family. This family moved relatively (about 1831, according to thebio of one of his sons) to Ashtabula Co. OH and then dispersed. Offspring. Lot Abraham Brower, a/k/a L.A. Brower, born Oppenheim in 1821, may have ended up in a mental ward in Grand Traverse Co., MI at the end of his life (1900 Census -- I assume that he died there because old people rarely recovered from mental conditions in those days. An attorney, married Cynthia Sage of Ohio. Children include Gertrude, Phineas, Pulaski, Philotha, Plumus, and Gurley. Irenaeus. Born 1816. Married Mary Green, I know little. Judge Hammond Healy Brower. Born 1819 in Fultonville, Montgomery, NY; buried 1909 near Wichita KS. Identified as a lawyer at age 81 in McCool NE. Had owned timber properties in Colorado. Elizabeth. Born 1824, and that's all I know of her. Arlineus Brower. Born 1811, died 1895. Married Sally Turner born in Ohio; she died in 1844 in Ashtabula Co., OH and he married a Mary Mathews. This is a widely-dispersed family that I have associated with Ohio, Michigan, Nebraska, Kansas, Colorado, and Florida (and in Florida during the early part of the 20th Century before lots of people from up North settled to escape the cold). But there are some strange given names that make this family easy to track. Does anyone have anything on Abra(ha)m's parents? I know of other BROWERs in Fulton County that I can connect to Adam BROUWER (1620-1692), an early Dutch immigrant to New Amsterdam (now of course NYC). Most BROWERs in New York City, northeastern New Jersey, and the Hudson and Mohawk valleys at or just before the American Revolution are descended from Adam BROUWER. Most BROUWERs changed the spellings of their surname to BROWER or BREWER around the time of the American Revolution. P.S. -- one bio says that Philotha Webster was 'related to the dictionarist Noah Webster'.