WILLIAM D. BREWINGTON is a member of the large and well known mercantile firm of Moore and Brewington, of Brandon. He was born in Putnam county, Georgia, February 27, 1868, a son of William J. Brewington, a retired citizen of Stamford, Texas, and a grandson on the paternal side of William J. Brewington, Sr., born in the state of Maryland, a tanner in Georgia and afterward a farmer and resident of Lee county, Alabama, where his demise occurred in 1885, when seventy-three years of age.
   William J. Brewington, Jr., has passed his life as a farmer and merchant in Georgia, Alabama, and Texas. He was born in Georgia in 1840. He has made his influence felt as a citizen and business man in whatever locality he has resided. He farmed for a time in Georgia, while in Lee county, Alabama, he added mercantile interests to his farming operations, as he also did at Baileyville and Crawford, Texas, and his last business enterprise was the handling of lumber in a small town in McLennan county, this state. During the progress of the Civil war he was a Georgia soldier of the Confederacy. William J. Brewington married Louise Gasaway, a daughter of D. W. Gasaway, and she still survives her husband, and is the mother of the following children:  John D. Brewington, whose home is in the west; Mrs. C. M. Pattello, of Stamford, Texas; William D. Brewington, the subject of this review; Charles Brewington, whose home is also in Stamford; Walter G. Brewington, who died in the year 1908; Dr. H. O. Brewington, a practicing physician in Stamford; and James Pierce Brewington, a traveling salesman of Oklahoma.
   William D. Brewington attended school in the different localities in which the family resided, chiefly in Alabama and in Calvert, Texas, and later added thereto a course in Hill's Business College at Waco. His first work as a man was farming, and this business experience was succeeded by a few years in the livery business in Crawford, Texas, where his father had his lumber yard. He came from that point to Brandon and embarked in the lumber business in 1893 as a member of the firm of Brewington Brothers, but this corporation was dissolved in 1898, and at the same time a mercantile corporation was formed called the Moore-Frazier company, which was organized with a capital of twelve thousand dollars and which conducted a store until the company dissolved in 1905, Mr. Brewington and Mr. Moore taking over the dry goods and groceries and the remaining partner the hardware. From this time forward Mr. Brewington has been a member of the firm of Moore and Brewington.
   He married at Ballenger, Texas, October 20, 1888, and to avoid complications and the displeasure of dissatisfied parents the young couple "eloped." Mrs. Brewington was Miss Etta Stoneham and was born on the same day and in the same year as her husband. She is a daughter of Henry B. Stoneham, who came from Grimes county, Texas, and settled in Milam county, where his death afterward occurred. The following children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Brewington: William R. Brewington, who married Cory Ivy, and has a son, William; Elva C. is a teacher in the Brandon public schools; Lucia Jannette is a student in the Fort Worth Polytechnic College; and Inez. Mr. Brewington is a Chapter Mason and master of the Blue Lodge of Brandon, also a Knight of Pythias, and a member and steward of the Brandon Methodist Episcopal church, and his children have been brought up under the influence of this church. The Brewington home is in Brandon.

History of Central and Western Texas.  B. B. Paddock, ed., Lewis Publishing Co., Chicago, 1911, pp. 558-559.