Campbell County WY Archives Biographies.....Brooke, Horace Ray 1860 - 1915
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Source: The Gillette News Sep 20, 1912 pg 2
Author: The Gillette News


Biographical Sketch

              WITH THE CANDIDATES
   H. R. Brooke, the democratic candidate for county
clerk, was born at Newark, Lieking County, Ohio, in
December 1860. He received a thorough common school
education in his native town, finishing his high
school course in 1878. He entered the employ of the
Baltimore & Ohio railroad the following yea in the
office of the car service department, and became
the head of that office in 1881, with the title of
car recorder of the trans-Ohio divisions, the 
territory of the office covering all lines of the
B. & O. west of the Ohio river. This position he
filled with credit for about a year, when the office
was abandoned, and the records afterwards were kept
at Baltimore, Md.
   In 1882, Mr. Brooke moved with his family to 
Minneapolis, Minn., where his first position was 
that of assistant cashier in the joint office of
the St. P., M. & M. (Great Northern) and the 
Northern Pacific railroads.For the five years
following he was night agent at the Minnesota 
transer, where he conducted the night business of
the twelve railroads that center there. This 
position required a man with indomitable energy,
and this ?? not lacking in our present candidate
for county clerk. His services ended at that point
with the strike of 1894, and for the next three
years was employed in the local freight office of
the M. & St. L. railway, one of the busiest freight
offices in the city. From 1897 to 1902 fouond him 
in the auditor's office of the M. St. P. & S. S. M.
(Soo? line), in charge of the passenger department.
His railroad experience terminated in the latter
year, until he came to Wyoming in 1906. The 
intervening time was filled by a varied experience
in commercial lines. Mr. Brooke holds personal
recommendations from practically all of his employers,
from 1897 to date, all of which speak of him in the
highest terms, as a man of excellent habits and 
ability far beyond the average. The various lines 
of work include employment with leading firms of
Minneapolis, filling positions of honor and trust,
and are as follows:
   Pittsburg Coal Co., statistician.
   Farmers and Mechanices Savings Bank, bookkeeper.
   Becus - Brooks Lumber Co., book keeper.
   Deer & Webber Co., in charge billing department.
   Treasurer's office Hennepin County, apportionment
clerk.
    In addition to the above, and as side position, 
he was for about  ten years, secretary ??? fraternal
order, looking after that end of the business for
a lodge whose membership grew during that time from
about 20 to over 690.
   In 1908 Mr. Brooke came to Gillette, as agent at
this station, and during that year and part of 1909
served the public faithfully, and while there he
made many lasting friendships. Since then he has
been temporarioly employed at the Bank of Gillette,
and during the last year we find him filling the 
position of city marshall, and while he was not 
heavy on the "rough and tumble" he handled the
office with deplomacy and thereby saved the city
considerable expense.
   While this record shows a great many changes in
occupation, it gives him a general knowledge of 
office work, possessed by few, and has a congenial
disposition that will benefit him to deal with the
public in the trying position to which he aspires,
that of county clerk.

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