Brief Life History of William H.
When William H. Brooks was born on 18 July 1842, in Springhill, Springhill Township, Fayette, Pennsylvania, United States, his father, Joseph Brooks, was 24 and his mother, Mary Shiloah Baker, was 29. He married Elizabeth Hysham on 3 November 1861, in Elkader, Clayton, Iowa, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Springhill Township, Fayette, Pennsylvania, United States in 1850 and Grand Meadow Township, Clayton, Iowa, United States in 1870. He died on 10 February 1882, in Tilden Township, Cherokee, Iowa, United States, at the age of 39, and was buried in Cumberland, Illinois, United States.
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- William Brooks in household of Joseph Brooks, "United States Census, 1850"
- William Brooks, "Iowa, County Marriages, 1838-1934"
- William Brooks, "Iowa, County Death Records, 1880-1992"
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1843
Historical Boundaries: 1843: Cumberland, Illinois, United States
1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
1856 · The Largest Map Company in the World
William Rand opened a small printing shop in Chicago. Doing most of the work himself for the first two years he decided to hire some help. Rand Hired Andrew McNally, an Irish Immigrant, to work in his shop. After doing business with the Chicago Tribune, Rand and McNally were hired to run the Tribune's entire printing operation. Years later, Rand and McNally established Rand McNally & Co after purchasing the Tribune's printing business. They focused mainly on printing tickets, complete railroad guides and timetables for the booming railroad industry around the city. What made the company successful was the detailed maps of roadways, along with directions to certain places. Rand McNally was the first major map publisher to embrace a system of numbered highways and erected many of the roadside highway signs that have been adopted by state and federal highway authorities. The company is still making and updating the world maps that are looked at every day.
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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