Wilmot W. Brookings Biography


	This biography appears on page 923 in "History of South 
	Dakota" by Doane Robinson, Vol. I (1904) and was scanned, 
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	WILMOT W. BROOKINGS, born Woolwich, Lincoln county, Maine, 1833. 
Came to Dakota, 1857, among first to settle at Sioux Falls. Several 
times member of Dakota legislature, associate justice supreme court of 
Dakota, 1869-1873. Graduate Bidden College. Built Southern Dakota 
Railway, Sioux City to Yankton, 1872, first railway in territory. Now 
resides in Boston.