The Brewster genealogy, 1566-1907 V2; a record of the descendants of William Brewster of the "Mayflower." ruling elder of the Pilgrim church which founded Plymouth colony in 1620;

.......... Azubah (Gillet) HIGLEY of Becket, born there, November 6, 1787; died at Pittsfield, Mass., January 21, 1875. He died at Pittsfield, May 3, 1869.

" Doctor John M. Brewster's early education was received at Lenox (Mass.) Academy. . . . He commenced the study of medicine under his father's instruction; attended a course of lectures in New Haven, in 1810, and graduated at the Medical School in Boston, in 1812; reached home the very day his father was brought home dead of apoplexy, and commenced immediately the practice of medicine at his native place, where he remained until 1821, when he removed to Lenox, and was a successful physician in that and neighboring towns for sixteen years. He was town clerk there for two years. In April, 1837, he removed to Pittsfield, and continued his profession with zeal, fidelity, and success for thirty years, making in all fifty-five years of continuous practice. His physical constitution was of the most robust kind. Till after he was seventy years of age he would mount his horse with no other help than the stirrups and ride with grace and fieetness.

" Dr. Brewster welcomed to his home Gerritt Smith, Elihu Bur-ritt, Henry Wilson, and many of the early anti-slavery advocates. The friendship that existed between himself and the honorable Charles Sumner (of glorious memory) was constant and unabated to the close of life. He was an anti-slavery man when it cost something to be one—as far back as when James G. Birney was a candidate for President. Studious of social propriety and civil obligations he firmly and conscientiously took his chances on the side of manhood and right, and calmly and quietly awaited the result.

" Need it be said that his grand conduct as husband, father, neighbor, citizen, and physician was the outcome of a character which was born of Jesus of Nazareth." ..........