Brewer, Leigh Richmond

BREWER, LEIGH RICHMOND: Protestant Episcopal bishop of Montana; b. at Berkshire, Vt., Jan. 20, 1839. He was educated at Hobart College (B.A., 1863) and the General Theological Seminary (1866), and was ordered deacon in 1866 and ordained priest in the following year. He was successively rector of Grace Church, Carthage, N. Y. (1866–72), and Trinity Church, Watertown, N. Y. (1872–80), and in 1880 was consecrated missionary bishop of Montana.