Los Angeles County CA Archives Biographies.....Brooks, Francis Wycoff 1821 - 
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Author: Luther A. Ingersoll (1908)

    FRANCIS WYCOFF BROOKS, was a California pioneer of 1850, a native of Boston,
Mass., where he was born March 14th, 1821. He was educated at Walpole Academy,
Walpole, N. H. Later he went to New York City and, with a brother, engaged in
the wholesale paper business. When the reports of the discovery of gold in
California became current in the east, he joined the rush to the new El Dorado.
After some experience in the mines he, with his two brothers, Horace and George
Brooks, engaged in the wholesale paper business on Sansome street, San
Francisco. He was a vigilante and did much for the establishment of law and
order in San Francisco in the early days. The firm did a prosperous business for
about twenty years, their field of operation extending throughout the state. The
brothers, individually, acquired large property interests in the city.

    Francis W. Brooks married Miss Matilda Smith, daughter of Floyd Smith, a
leading business man and prominent lay churchman in New York City, where she was
born, reared and educated. The marriage took place June 20th, 1855, and they
came direct to California via the Panama route. Of their children two are still
residents of this city, viz.—Matilda, now wife of Mayor T. H. Dudley, and Alice
Brooks, who lives at the old home. Another daughter, Mrs. J. Erwin Hoy, lives in
Paris, France. Mr. Brooks died in Battleboro, Vt., in 1885. In 1890, the family
located in Santa Monica at the corner of Third and Washington Streets, where
Mrs. Brooks died in 1897.


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Ingersoll's century history, Santa Monica Bay cities: prefaced with a brief
history of the state of California, a condensed history of Los Angeles County,
1542 to 1908: supplemented with an encyclopedia of local biography and
embellished with views of historic landmarks and portraits of representative
people.

Los Angeles: Luther A. Ingersoll (1908)

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