Oscar Joslin Brooks    1855-1927

 

Born:   December 4, 1855 in Lansingburg, New York

Died:   December 22, 1927 in Bexley, Ohio. 

Place of burial: 

 

Spouse:          Ida K. Stone   m. in Waterford, New York September 7, 1880.  

Children:         Mrs. William H. Price  (I don’t know her maiden name yet.)

Grace Eleanor Brooks  (m. Orla C. Burgess, possibly in Columbus, Ohio.  They had a daughter, Elizabeth Eva Burgess. Grace died on October 22, 1978.)

                        Son, no name on birth record, b. June 22, 1888 in Appleton, Wisconsin. 

 

2nd Wife:         Isabella King m. in Rockford, Illinois. 

Children:         Alice M. Brooks, who married Charles Hoel and they had 2 children, Jane and Margaret.)

                                   

 

Occupation:   Clerk dry-goods store while in New York.

Proprietor of the Appleton Bazar variety store while in Wisconsin.

Back to New York as General Manager of Ludlow Valve Manufacturing

Traveling Representative for Cooper-Wells & Co

 

Father’s name:          Thomas Wallace Brooks                  Birth place:     London, England

Mother’s name:         Ruth Ann (Walker) Brooks               Birth place:     Hoosick, New York

Siblings:         Frank John Brooks

                        Anna Rebecca (Brooks) Palmer

Myron Walker Brooks

Charles Howlett Brooks

                        Carrie Victoria (Brooks) Ryan

                        Mary Ella Brooks

                        Florence Augusta Brooks

                        Carrie Guild Brooks

 

Last address was 2367 Brentwood Road/ Bexley, Ohio.

 

Read Oscar’s entry found in the Commemorative Biographical Record of the Fox Valley, a Who’s Who type book published in 1895. 

 

                       

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