Westmoreland-Fayette County PA Archives Biographies.....Brooks, Henry F. January 1, 1862

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HENRY F. BROOKS, principal of the Bridgeport Independent schools, was born
January 1, 1862, in Salt Lick township, Fayette county, Pa., and is a son of
Milton K. and Eliza (Felgar) Brooks. Joseph Brooks, his great-grandfather, was
of German parentage, a native of Pennsylvania and died in Fayette county at an
advanced age. Henry Brooks (grandfather) was a native of Fayette county. Born in
Springfield township in 1808, he was one of the earliest inhabitants of that
section. His whole life was devoted to farming and he was the first justice of
the peace in his native township. He died in 1848. Mrs. Mary (Kern) Brooks
(maternal grandmother) was a native of the same county and township and was born
in 1809. She was the mother of a large family of children and died in 1846.
Milton K. Brooks (father) was born in 1841 in Fayette county, was reared on his
father’s farm, engaged a year in mercantile pursuits and then purchased a tract
of land in Fayette county and began farming, which he continued until his death
in 1871. He was a democrat and took quite an interest in local politics and was
married in 1860 to Eliza, a daughter of Henry and Catharine Felgar of Fayette
county and they had three children, all living:   Henry F., William A., of
Moyer, Fayette county and Samuel C., now living on the homestead farm. Mrs.
Fliza Brooks (mother) as well as her husband was a member of the German Baptist
church. She was taken front earth by the Angel of Death on April 22, 1878.

   Henry F. Brooks was reared by his mother's parents until sixteen years of
age. He received his education at the home schools and summer normals and
studied at home. In 1879 he began teaching in his native township, continued
there three years, taught one term at West Overton and then went to Bridgeport,
near Mt. Pleasant, where he has remained ever since with the exception of one
year, during which he attended and graduated from the commercial department of
the University of Kentucky at Lexington. Mr. Brooks is an intelligent,
industrious, energetic young man of noble ambition and high aspirations. He is a
democrat, a member of the German Baptist church and Moss Rose Lodge, No. 350, I.
O. O. F. and J. W. Howell Council, No. 210, Jr. O. U. A. M.

   H. F. Brooks was married in 1884 to Rose C., a daughter of John M. Cochran,
of East Huntingdon township, this county. She was born in 1862, is of Irish
descent and is the mother of two children: Trissa, born in 1886, and Grace, born
1888.


Additional Comments:
Extracted from
Biographical and Historical Cyclopedia of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania
Compiled and Published by John M. Gresham & Co.
Samuel T. Wiley, Chief Assistant
1890


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