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Thomas Mayo Brewer THOMAS MAYO BREWER “NARRATIVE HISTORY” AMOUNTS TO FABULATION, THE REAL STUFF BEING MERE CHRONOLOGY “Stack of the Artist of Kouroo” Project Thomas Mayo Brewer HDT WHAT? INDEX THOMAS MAYO BREWER THOMAS MAYO BREWER 1814 November 21, Monday: Thomas Mayo Brewer was born in Boston to James Brewer (1742-1818) and Abigail Stone Brewer (1777-1860) (a grandfather, Colonel James Brewer, had participated in the Boston Tea Party). Friend Stephen Wanton Gould wrote in his journal: 2nd day 21 of 11th M / Heard this morng a report which gives us great uneasiness Vizt that the Ship Fingal had sunk at sea & some of the Passengers had arrived at NYork. Our minds must be in great suspence untill we hear —whether Uncle S is among the Number 3rd day 22 of 11 M 1814 / Yesterdays report of the Feingal proves groundless to the great releaf of my mind & many others as she had on board 120 passengers when she left NYork -Uncle Stanton commanded her which brought the report close to my feelings. RELIGIOUS SOCIETY OF FRIENDS NOBODY COULD GUESS WHAT WOULD HAPPEN NEXT Thomas Mayo Brewer “Stack of the Artist of Kouroo” Project HDT WHAT? INDEX THOMAS MAYO BREWER THOMAS MAYO BREWER 1835 At Harvard College, four of the undergraduates were from Concord families: in addition to David Henry Thoreau there were George Moore, son of Captain Abel Moore the sheriff who would become a minister, Hiram Barrett Dennis, son of the farmer Samuel Dennis who would become an editor, and Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar, a son of Squire Samuel Hoar who would become a lawyer and politician. Undergraduates. — George Moore [of Concord], son of Captain Abel Moore; Hiram Barrett Dennis [of Concord], son of Samuel Dennis; Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar, son of the Hon. Samuel Hoar [of Concord], members of Harvard University; Marshall Merriam [of Concord], and Gardner Davis [of Concord], son of Josiah Davis, of Yale College, and Josiah Dudley [of Concord], of Union College, New York. Thomas Mayo Brewer graduated. He would continue into Harvard Medical School. He joined the Boston Society of Natural History. At Harvard Divinity School, the following gentlemen completed their studies: Cyrus Augustus Bartol (A.B. Ham. [Hamilton College?]) Asarelah Morse Bridge Charles Timothy Brooks Edgar Buckingham Christopher Pearse Cranch (A.B. Col. [Columbia College?]) Barzillai Frost Samuel Osgood John Parkman Harrison Gray Otis Phipps George Matthias Rice (A.B. Bowdoin College) James Thurston LIFE IS LIVED FORWARD BUT UNDERSTOOD BACKWARD? — NO, THAT’S GIVING TOO MUCH TO THE HISTORIAN’S STORIES. LIFE ISN’T TO BE UNDERSTOOD EITHER FORWARD OR BACKWARD. “Stack of the Artist of Kouroo” Project Thomas Mayo Brewer HDT WHAT? INDEX THOMAS MAYO BREWER THOMAS MAYO BREWER 1837 Thomas Mayo Brewer published a paper on the birds of Massachusetts in the Boston Journal of Natural History. In this paper he supplemented Hitchcock’s CATALOG OF THE BIRDS OF MASSACHUSETTS by adding 45 species. DO I HAVE YOUR ATTENTION? GOOD. Thomas Mayo Brewer “Stack of the Artist of Kouroo” Project HDT WHAT? INDEX THOMAS MAYO BREWER THOMAS MAYO BREWER 1838 Thomas Mayo Brewer graduated from the Harvard Medical School. He would practice medicine for only a few years, as Dispensary Physician at the North End, before choosing to concentrate on writing and politics. He would become one of the editors at a Whig gazette, the Boston Atlas. He would contribute to a number of ornithological publications, including John James Audubon’s ORNITHOLOGICAL BIOGRAPHY (1831-1839): “My young friend Mr. T.M. Brewer says....” NEW “HARVARD MEN” THE FUTURE IS MOST READILY PREDICTED IN RETROSPECT “Stack of the Artist of Kouroo” Project Thomas Mayo Brewer HDT WHAT? INDEX THOMAS MAYO BREWER THOMAS MAYO BREWER 1839 Thomas Mayo Brewer edited a new edition of Alexander Wilson’s AMERICAN ORNITHOLOGY; OR, THE NATURAL HISTORY OF BIRDS OF THE UNITED STATES, adding a synopsis of all the birds then known as North American, plus a list of newly classified birds. AMERICAN ORNITHOLOGY In its 1852 edition (New York: H.S. Samuels), this would be in the library of Henry Thoreau. THE FUTURE CAN BE EASILY PREDICTED IN RETROSPECT “Stack of the Artist of Kouroo” Project Thomas Mayo Brewer HDT WHAT? INDEX THOMAS MAYO BREWER THOMAS MAYO BREWER 1840 Thomas Mayo Brewer became one of the editors at, or a correspondent for, the Boston Atlas. He would remain in that capacity until this Whig gazette would be merged into the Boston Traveller, but soon after he would become a partner in the publishing firm of Swan and Tileston. His connection with that firm, under this name and later under the name Ilickling, Swan, and Brewer, and then under the name Brewer and Tileston, would continue until 1877 when he would retire from business. Thomas Mayo Brewer joined the printing firm of Swan & Tileston. The printing firm of Swan & Tileston was renamed Ilickling, Swan, and Brewer in recognition of the partnership of Thomas Mayo Brewer. CHANGE IS ETERNITY, STASIS A FIGMENT Thomas Mayo Brewer “Stack of the Artist of Kouroo” Project HDT WHAT? INDEX THOMAS MAYO BREWER THOMAS MAYO BREWER 1843 Summer: During his final expedition, on the upper Missouri River seeking new mammals for his books on American quadrupeds, John James Audubon saw a blackbird species with which he was not familiar. His drawing of it would be included in the 1844 Octavo, or miniature, edition of THE BIRDS OF AMERICA. BIRDS OF AMERICA Audubon thought he was the 1st to recognize this species, and named it in honor of his young friend Thomas Mayo Brewer, the Brewer’s Blackbird (although in fact the species had been known since 1829, the common name Audubon assigned has stuck with this bird). Henry Thoreau probably never saw Brewer’s Blackbird Euphagus cyanocephalus because it is not present in our eastern states — however, since they do breed in Minnesota among other places during the summer, there would be the possibility that he sighted it while he was visiting Minnesota during the summer of 1861. HDT WHAT? INDEX THOMAS MAYO BREWER THOMAS MAYO BREWER HDT WHAT? INDEX THOMAS MAYO BREWER THOMAS MAYO BREWER 1844 Augustus Addison Gould became a member of the Natural History Society of Lynn, Massachusetts and a corresponding member of the Kongelige Nordiske Oldskriftselskab of Copenhagen, Denmark. Description of Hairy-tailed Mole Parascalops breweri on the island of Martha’s Vineyard by Thomas Mayo Brewer, an active member since 1837 of the Boston Society of Natural History. This mammal of New England has come to be known as Brewer’s Mole. PROCEEDINGS, FOR 1844 Dr. Brewer was elected to the Boston School Board. He would become the senior member of this board and would be rechosen for another term of three years. HDT WHAT? INDEX THOMAS MAYO BREWER THOMAS MAYO BREWER 1849 May 27, Sunday: Thomas Mayo Brewer got married with Sally R. Coffin, daughter of Mr. Stephen Coffin of Damariscotta, Maine. The couple would produce two children. After two Boston churches attended by persons of color had declined to allow the funeral services for the hanged black seaman to be conducted on their premises, on this afternoon the body of Washington Goode was interred in a city tomb at the South Burying Ground. The Reverend Mr. Grimes, pastor of the 12th Baptist Society, presided. On the handsome coffin of black walnut, a silver plate bore the simple inscription “Washington Goode, Died, May 25, 1849, Aged 29 years.” Margaret Fuller reported to the New-York Tribune from Rome “between the heaves of storm”: Rome, May 27, 1849. I have suspended writing in the expectation of some decisive event; but none such comes yet. The French, entangled in a web of falsehood, abashed by a defeat that Oudinot has vainly tried to gloss over, the expedition disowned by all honorable men at home, disappointed at Gaëta, not daring to go the length Papal infatuation demands, know not what to do. The Neapolitans have been decidedly driven back into their own borders, the last time in a most shameful rout, their king flying in front. We have heard for several days that the Austrians were advancing, but they come not. They also, it is probable, meet with unexpected embarrassments. They find that the sincere movement of the Italian people is very unlike that of troops commanded by princes and generals who never wished to conquer and were always waiting to betray. Then their troubles at home are constantly increasing, and, should the Russian intervention quell these to- day, it is only to raise a storm far more terrible to-morrow. The struggle is now fairly, thoroughly commenced between the principle of democracy and the old powers, no longer legitimate. That struggle may last fifty years, and the earth be watered with the blood and tears of more than one generation, but the result is sure. All Europe, including Great Britain, where the most bitter resistance of all will be made, is to be under republican government in the next century. “God moves in a mysterious way.” Every struggle made by the old tyrannies, all their Jesuitical deceptions, their rapacity, their imprisonments and executions of the most generous men, only sow more dragon’s teeth; the crop shoots up daily more and more plenteous. When I first arrived in Italy, the vast majority of this people had no wish beyond limited monarchies, constitutional governments. They still respected the famous names of the nobility; they despised the priests, but were still fondly attached to the dogmas and ritual of the Roman Catholic Church. It required King Bomba, the triple treachery of Charles Albert, Pius IX., and the “illustrious Gioberti,” the naturally kind- HDT WHAT? INDEX THOMAS MAYO BREWER THOMAS MAYO BREWER hearted, but, from the necessity of his position, cowardly and false Leopold of Tuscany, the vagabond “serene” meannesses of Parma and Modena, the “fatherly” Radetzsky, and, finally, the imbecile Louis Bonaparte, “would-be Emperor of France,” to convince this people that no transition is possible between the old and the new.
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