Will County IL Archives Biographies.....Brooks, Alonzo B 1809 - 
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Author: Portrait & Biographical Album, 1890

ALONZO B. BROOKS. 

This veteran of eighty-one years and his estimable partner are familiarly 
known to a large portion of the residents of Homer Township, where they  have 
sojourned many years, and by their sterling worth have drawn around them many 
friends. They are passing their declining days quietly and comfortably at 
their snug homestead on section 10, with the satisfaction of having performed 
life's duties well as far as in them lay, making for themselves a good record 
and one of which their children will never be ashamed. Mr. Brooks has for some 
time been afflicted with failing eyesight, but bears the dispensation of 
Providence in a  philosophical manner, and still is enabled to find much that 
is good in life.

The subject of this notice was born February 14, 1809, in Otego Township, 
Otsego County, N. Y., and went with his parents to Delaware County., that 
State, when a  lad of about six years. He lived there with his parents until 
1826, and then the family removed to Hamburg, Erie County, where the parents 
lived until 1836, when  they came to Illinois.


In due time Mr. Brooks returned to Delaware County, and was married to Miss 
Alice, daughter of Joseph and Sarah Edmonds. They, settled in Hamburg, Erie 
County, where they resided until the following spring, then Mr. Brooks 
returning to Otsego County, occupied himself as a millwright. Afterward he 
removed to Erie County, of which he was a resident until 1837. In June of that 
year he came to this State. He was then joined by his wife, who was only 
permitted to remain with him a short time thereafter, her death taking place 
October 14, 1837, in Lockport Township. Of this union there was born one 
child, a son, Joseph E., who is now a resident of Lockport. Mr. Brooks 
contracted a second marriage in August, 1838, in Homer Township, to Miss Jane 
Weaver. This lady was born in Washington County, N. Y., January 21, 1807. 
After marriage Mr. Brooks remained in Lockport for a short time, then in the 
spring of 1839 settled on his present farm. This comprises eighty acres of 
good land, which under his careful management is in a highly productive 
condition, and is the source of a comfortable income. Of this marriage of our 
subject there have been born five children, only one of whom is living, a son, 
Sterling A. The latter was married in Northport, Mich., to Miss Emily Cornell, 
and is living with our subject.

The father of our subject was Benjamin Brooks, who died about 1865, at the 
home of his son, Alonzo B., with whom he had lived for eleven years. The 
mother, who bore the maiden name of Anna Warner, died in Crete Township about 
1838. Our subject has held the office of Assessor and Justice of the Peace for 
many years. He officiated as Highway Commissioner several terms, and in 
politics is a firm supporter of Republican principles. He and his estimable 
wife are consistent members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, as was also the 
first Mrs. Brooks.

Additional Comments:
Portrait and Biographical Album of Will County, Illinois, Containing Full Page 
Portraits and Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative Citizens 
of the County; Chicago: Chapman Bros., 1890

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