Escambia County AlArchives Biographies.....Brooks, Millard F. October 11 1856 - living in 1893
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Author: Brant & Fuller (1893)
    MILLARD F. BROOKS	 the efficient circuit clerk of Escambia county, is
descended paternally from an old Welsh family which settled in Virginia in the
year 1740. His grandfather, Robert Brooks, was born in that state in 1760,
served in the war of Independence from 1780 until the surrender of Yorktown, and
in 1800 emigrated to South Carolina, thence in 1810 to Georgia. Subsequently,
about the year 1836, he changed his residence to Alabama, locating in Pike
county, where his death occurred in 1845. By his third wife, a Miss Gillmore,
whom he married in Georgia, he had several children, one of whom Jordan G.
Brooks, born in the year 1818, was the father of the gentleman whose name heads
this sketch. Jordan Brooks was by occupation a farmer, taught school for a
number of years in Pike county, Ala., and took an active part in political
affairs as a whig. He supported the Bell and Everett ticket in 1860, and
bitterly opposed secession, but after that ordinance was passed, deemed it his
duty to stand by his state; accordingly, in 1862, he entered the Thirty-third
Alabama regiment, with which he served first as private and later as lieutenant
and captain until his death at Murfreesboro in 1863. In 1844, in Pike county, he
married Mary S. Walker, daughter of Andrew Walker, and in 1859 moved to Butler
county. After the war, in 1871, Mrs. Brooks moved to Escambia county, settling
at Evansville, and three years later she moved to Bluff Springs, Fla., together
with her two younger children, where she died on the 5th day of November, 1891,
in the seventy-first year of her age. Andrew Walker, father of Mrs. Brooks, was
a native of Ireland. He came from that country to the United States in 1816, and
settled at Charlotte, N. C., subsequently moved to Alabama, and died in the
county of Pike about 1835, at the age of seventy-five. Jordan G. and Mary S.
Brooks reared a family of eight children, namely: Hon. Leonidas M., judge of
Escambia county court, resides at Pensacola, Fla.; Wilson W., in the employ of
the P. & A. railroad, Marianna. Fla.; Robert W., Baptist minister, Bluff
Springs, Fla.; Emily V., wife of Samuel A. Johnson, of Arkansas; Nancy J., wife
of Augustus Davis, resides at Bluff Springs, Fla.; Mrs. Louisa M. Dowson,
deceased; Millard F., and Dora J., widow of W. J. Donaldson. Millard F. Brooks
was born in Pike county, Ala., October 11, 1856, and at the age of twenty began
the study of telegraphy, in which he in time became an expert. In the meantime
he worked at intervals in a saw-mill, but in 1879 turned his entire attention to
telegraphy, accepting a position that year with the L. & N. company as agent at
William station, where he remained until 1886, at which time he took charge of
the office of same company at Brewton. In August, 1886, he was elected on the
democratic ticket circuit clerk of Escambia county, and taking possession of the
office the following November, has since discharged the duties of the same with
credit to himself and satisfaction to the people, irrespective of party
affiliations. In January, 1889, he was appointed register in chancery, and by
special act of the legislature of 1888-9 was made ex-officio clerk of the county
court, both of which positions he now fills in connection with his elective
office. Mr. Brooks has been a potent factor in the local politics of Escambia
county for some time and is also mindful of his party's interest in state and
national matters as well. He is present chairman of the democratic county
executive committee, and in fraternal circles is an active member of the orders
of K. of H. and K. of P. Mr. Brooks' married life began on the 1st day of May,
1880, at which time Ella, daughter of William H. and Lucinda Anderson, became
his wife. The home of Mr. and Mrs. Brooks has been brightened by the advent of
three children, Millard M., Minnie I., and Leon G., aged nine, six and three
years respectively.



Additional Comments:
from "Memorial Record of Alabama", Vol. I, p. 953-954
Published by
Brant & Fuller (1893)
Madison, WI

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