Biographical Sketch of Christopher W. Brooks, Webster County, Missouri

>From "History of Laclede, Camden, Dallas, Webster, Wright, Texas, 
Pulaski, Phelps and Dent Counties, Missouri" The Goodspeed Publishing
Company, 1889.
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Christopher W. Brooks, a leading and prosperous merchant of Marshfield,
was born in Caswell county, N. C., February 5, 1844, and is the eldest
of six children born to the marriage of Robert H. and Letha (Boswell)
Brooks, both natives of North Carolina.  Christopher Brooks, grand-
father of our subject, was a native of N. C., and died in his native 
state when Christopher W. Brooks was about nine years of age.  Robert 
H. Brooks was reared and married in Caswell county, of his native state
to Miss Letha Boswell, of the same locality.  After his marriage he 
farmed there a few years, and in the fall of 1854 moved to Missouri,
settling where his son William now resides.  He was mustering officer
while in North Carolina, and held a major's commission.  Mr. Brooks 
died January 19, 1862 and his wife, July 25, 1888.  Young Brooks remov-
ed with his parents from N. C. to Western Tenn., and after a residence
in that state of three years he came to what was then Greene county,
now Webster county, Mo., and here his parents died.  He was reared to
manhood engaged in agricultural pursuits, and received a good practical
education in the common schools.  He continued farming until 1876, when
he removed to Marshfield and engaged in the mercantile business, to
which, in 1879, he added a stock of agricultural implements.  In 1866
he was married to Miss Joe Stella Dameron, a native of N. C., born in
1845, and who came with her parents to Missouri about 1851.  Mr. and
Mrs. Brooks became the parents of six children: McNey, Robert H., 
Stella, Nellie, Edna and Shirley.  Mr. Brooks is a Democrat in politics
and was county assessor for three years.  He is a member of the Masonic
fraternity, Mount Olive Lodge No. 439, and also the I. O. O. F., to
which he has belonged for several years.  He has been a resident of
Webster county for thirty-four years, and is a highly respected citi-
zen.  He and wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South.

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