Biographical Sketch of Norton Brooker, St. Joseph, Buchanan County, MO

>From "History of Buchanan County, Missouri, Published 1881, St. Joseph
Steam Printing Company, Printers, Binders, Etc., St. Joseph, Missouri.
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Norton Brooker is one of the most thoroughly skilled and well known
millwrights in the northwest.  He is a native of London, England,
and was born in that part of the famous city known as Surry, on
April 30, 1837; was there raised, educated and learned his trade.
In 1865, he came to America, and, after spending two years in the
mountains, took up his abode in St. Joseph, Missouri, where he has
since, principally, made his headquarters, doing work in Kansas,
Nebraska, Iowa and other states.  For a few years he was in the
employ of Tood & Alderman, mill furnishers, St. Louis, as their
agent on the road.  He built the mill at Easton, for Messrs. Boone
& Yates, and other in close proximity to St. Joseph.  He is well
posted in all the latest improvements connected with the milling
business.

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