A Portrait and Biographical Record of Hendricks County (Chicago: A.W. Bowen & Co., 1895)--page 1096
Rev. Urban Cooper Brewer, of Danville, springs from sturdy German and English stock, who sought Virginia long before the Revolution. William Brewer, the grandfather of our subject, was a native of Culpeper County, Va., who settled in Randolph County, N.C., and married Elizabeth Cavaness. Mr. Brewer finally came from North Carolina to Morgan County, Ind., in 1832, and was one of the pioneers of this county, where he died. He was the father of seven children: John C. Brewer, father of our subject, was born in 1817 in Randolph County, and came with his father to Indiana when a boy. He married Mary E. Wilhite, daughter of Noah and Polly (Williams) Wilhite. John C. Brewer remained in Morgan County until 1857, when he moved to Pulaski County, Ind. He was the father of ten children, Urban C. being the eldest. The Rev. Urban C. Brewer was born January 27, 1827, in Morgan County, Ind., at Minerva. He was educated for the law and graduated at New York City in 1862. He had early studied for the ministry and was ordained at Indianapolis in June, 1860. He returned to Indiana in October, 1862, and for two years retired to his farm in Pulaski County. In 1870 he came to Danville and was pastor of the Christian Church for four years, and then went to Greensburg and was pastor of a Christian Church there two years, and in 1878 went to Indianapolis and was pastor of the Central Church until 1881, and then returned to Danville and was pastor of his old charge for three years, and since that has had charge of the different churches in Hendricks County, viz.; Plainfield, Brownsburg, Pittsboro, Lizton, North Salem and Clayton, and in 1890 was elected auditor of Hendricks County for four years, a position which he still fills. In politics he is a Republican. Fraternally he is a member of Silcox lodge, I.O.O.F., of Danville. He married in 1886, October 11, Emma H., daughter of Dudley P. and Amelia (Gregory) Hall, of Lyndon, Vermont. To Rev. and Mrs. Brewer seven children have been born: Evangeline, Albert, Clarence, Charles, Mary A., Hall and Ruth.