Brief Life History of William Edward
When William Edward Brooks was born on 24 October 1872, in Saint Andrews, Charlotte, New Brunswick, Canada, his father, John A Brooks, was 24 and his mother, Ann Caroll, was -38. He married Caroline Ricks on 27 November 1892, in Butte, Silver Bow, Montana, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada in 1881 and Portland City Election Precinct 170, Multnomah, Oregon, United States in 1940. He died on 31 October 1943, in Portland, Multnomah, Oregon, United States, at the age of 71, and was buried in Mount Calvary Catholic Cemetery, Portland, Multnomah, Oregon, United States.
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- William Brooks in household of John A. Brooks, "Canada Census, 1881"
- William E. Brooks, "Montana, County Marriages, 1865-1950"
- William Edward Brooks, "United States World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918"
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World Events (8)
1875 · A Treaty with Hawaii
In the Mid 1870s, The United States sought out the Kingdom of Hawaii to make a free trade agreement. The Treaty gave the Hawaiians access to the United States agricultural markets and it gave the United States a part of land which later became Pearl Harbor.
1888
In 1858, the Portland Archdiocese established its first cemetery, St. Mary's Cemetery, in Southeast Portland adjacent to Lone Fir Cemetery. By the late 1800s, that site was becoming full and a new site was needed. In 1888, the Archdiocese purchased 100 acres (400,000 m2) in the West Hills and established Mount Calvary Cemetery.[1]
1896 · Plessy vs. Ferguson
A landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court upholding the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities if the segregated facilities were equal in quality. It's widely regarded as one of the worst decisions in U.S. Supreme Court history.
Name Meaning
English: usually a variant of Brook , with excrescent -s. The optional addition of -s, with no grammatical function, is usually post-medieval, but some examples of the same person's name occurring with and without -(e)s have been noted as early as the 14th century in South Lancashire. The -es in such cases probably has neither a plural nor a genitival function, and the name means ‘dweller at the brook’, not ‘dweller at the brooks’. A plural sense cannot be ruled out elsewhere, but a non-grammatical -(e)s must also be considered a strong possibility.
Americanized form of one or more similar (like-sounding) Jewish surnames.
Americanized form of German Brucks .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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