Background
Pew, John Brooks was born on December 28, 1877 in Laredo, Missouri, United States. Son of George Clair and Jane (Brooks) Pew.
Pew, John Brooks was born on December 28, 1877 in Laredo, Missouri, United States. Son of George Clair and Jane (Brooks) Pew.
Bachelor of Arts, William Jewell College, 1899, Doctor of Laws, 1938. Bachelor of Laws, Kansas City School Law (now U. Kansas City), 1901. Bachelor of Laws, Yale, 1902.
Admitted to Missouri bar, 1902, since practiced in Kansas City. Senior member Pew, Taylor, Sheridan & Boty. Member of faculty Kansas City School Law, 1904-1935.
City counselor Kansas City, 1923-1925, company counselor Jackson Company, 1935-1941.
Communion and Water Baptism are symbolic acts of obedience to the teaching of Jesus in the New Testament.
Member of the board of trustees William Jewell College since 1938, vice president since 1950, chairman John Phelps Fruit Memorial, 1944. Member of the board of governors of Kansas City Museum, executive vice president, since 1949, and president, 1953. Honorary colonel on staff of Governor of Missouri, 1953-1957.
Member American, Missouri and Kansas City (president 1922-1923) bar associations, Kansas City The Art Institute of Chicago, Sigma Nu, Phi Alpha Delta.
Mason (32°). Annotated the new city charter of Kansas City and revised all city ordnances to conform to charter, 1928. Lecturer before educational and cultural organizations
Married Maysie Vivian Pittman, October 13, 1903. Children: Ann Vivian (Mistress Francis G. Foster), John Brooks, Dorothy Jane (Mistress Lewis Motter Smith), Mary Virginia (Mistress Mark A. Lucas), Alfred Pittman.