BIOGRAPHY: Edward Fletcher Brooks; Newburgh, Orange co., New York

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Portrait and Biographical Record of Rockland and Orange Counties New York
Containing Portraits and Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative
Citizens of the Counties.
Together with Biographies and Portraits of all the Presidents of the United
States.
New York and Chicago; Chapman Publishing Co., 1895

EDWARD FLETCHER BROOKS, M. D., who is engaged in the practice of medicine
and surgery in Newburgh, was born in Eagle Valley, Tuxedo County, N. Y., in
1871, and was a son of Fletcher Brooks, who was born in the same place, and
was descended from an old family of English origin. He was reared on a farm,
and was graduated from Arnell College, of Ohio, after which he began business
as a civil engineer, but, his health failing him, he abandoned that and became
a professor in an educational institution. He married Hattie Gregory, who was
born in Passaic County, N. Y., and now resides in Middletown, Orange County'
They became the parents of three children, a son and two daughters. Mr. Brooks
passed to his final re-ward in 1873.

The Doctor is the youngest child in the parental family. He was reared in
Middletown from the age of twelve years, and in 1891 was graduated from
Wallkill Academy, after which he took up the study of medicine under Dr.
Pillsbury, of that place. In the fall of that year, he entered the University
of New York, and was graduated from the medical department on the 1st of May,
1894, with the degree of M. D. He then traveled for a time in order to
recuperate, for he had applied himself closely to his studies, and in the
following October he located in Newburgh, opening his office at No. 24 Liberty
Street, Washington Heights, for the practice of medicine and surgery. While in
New York he was in Bellevue Hospital, New York Lying-in Hospital and the
Charity Hospital. He makes a specialty of obstetrics, gynecology and general
surgery, and is especially successful as a surgeon. He is a young man of deep
research, and his recognized skill and ability have already won him a place
among successful practitioners.

The Doctor is a member of Trinity Methodist Episcopal Church. He belongs to
the Orange County Medical Society, and to the Alumni Association of the
medical college front which he graduated. In his political views he is a
stalwart Prohibitionist, and belongs to the Young Men's Christian Association.
Socially he is connected with Storm King Lodge, K. of P.; Highland Lodge, I.O.
O.F ; Highland Junior O.U.A.M.; and Orange Council, R.T. of T.