A. F. BROOKS, 93, WINNETKA CRASH VICTIM, IS DEAD
Alden F. Brooks, 93 years old, 518 Elder Lane, Winnetka, a former portrait painter for whom President McKinley once sat, died yesterday from pneumonia following an automobile collision on June 10 at Elder Lane and Woodlawn avenue, in the north shore suburb.
With Mr. Brooks were his granddaughter, Miss Violet Wyld, who lived with him and who was driving, and his daughter, Mrs. George Maher of Kenilworth. Their machine was struck by that of Charles Knapp, 18 years old, 633 Forest avenue, Wilmette, and overturned. Mr. Brooks sustained a fractured collar bone. The women were only slightly hurt. Knapp, a senior at the New Trier township high school was held on charges of involuntary manslaughter.
--Chicago Tribune, 14 June 1932, pg. 26
A member of the Cleveland Grays, a city militia created in 1837, which saw action at Bull Run, Shiloh, Chickamauga and Lookout Mountain, Alden F. Brooks enlisted in 1862 as a Corporal in the 105th Infantry (Ohio) and mustered out in June 1865 as a First Lieutenant. The regiment served in Kentucky, Tennessee, and Georgia before joining Sherman's Atlanta Campaign and March to the Sea. He was shot in the hand, and rather than have it amputated, he treated it himself.
During the Civil War Alden Brooks enlisted in Company I, 105th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, as a corporal, for a 3-year term of enlistment, August 13, 1862. He was promoted to 2nd lieutenant, May 5, 1863, Company G, and to 1st Lieutenant, February 18, 1864. He was mustered out at Washington, D.C., June 3, 1865.
[from William Stark (#46521610)]
ALDEN FINNEY BROOKS was born April 3, 1840, in Williamsfield, Ashtabula Co., Ohio, of Charles and Isabel [Thompson] Brooks. He received an academic education in J L. Pickard's institution at Platteville, Wis., from 1857 to 1859. Being in poor health he made the journey to Eureka, Cal., on foot in 1859. In 1861 he returned home and enlisted early in 1862 and served to the close of the war. For the last nine months of service he was on the staff of General George H. Thomas, as topographical engineer, with rank of First Lieutenant. In 1867 he went to New York City and studied a year in the National Academy of Design, having early evinced a taste for painting, and having already done some work in that line, for which, indeed, he inherited an aptitude. He also took lessons from Edwin White, the distinguished historical painter, for a year. In 1870 he came to Chicago, and opened his first studio, and was burnt out in the great fire. He soon re-opened, and has been here ever since, with the exception of the season of 1881-82, which he spent in Paris, as a pupil of Carolus Duran, where he exhibited in the Salon his painting, "Les Favorites." While home on furlough in 1864, he was married to Miss Ellen T. Woodworth. of Wayne, Ashtabula Co., Ohio, by whom he has had four children -- Bessie, December 22, 1866; Fannie, November 22, 1869; Carrie, January 15, 1871, and Merle Thompson, May 9, 1873. Mr. and Mrs. Brooks are members of the Congregational Church of Hyde Park, where they have resided since 1875.
--History of Cook County, Illinois: From the Earliest Period to the Present Time" [A. T. Andreas, Chicago, 1884]
Alden F. Brooks, 93 years old, 518 Elder Lane, Winnetka, a former portrait painter for whom President McKinley once sat, died yesterday from pneumonia following an automobile collision on June 10 at Elder Lane and Woodlawn avenue, in the north shore suburb.
With Mr. Brooks were his granddaughter, Miss Violet Wyld, who lived with him and who was driving, and his daughter, Mrs. George Maher of Kenilworth. Their machine was struck by that of Charles Knapp, 18 years old, 633 Forest avenue, Wilmette, and overturned. Mr. Brooks sustained a fractured collar bone. The women were only slightly hurt. Knapp, a senior at the New Trier township high school was held on charges of involuntary manslaughter.
--Chicago Tribune, 14 June 1932, pg. 26
A member of the Cleveland Grays, a city militia created in 1837, which saw action at Bull Run, Shiloh, Chickamauga and Lookout Mountain, Alden F. Brooks enlisted in 1862 as a Corporal in the 105th Infantry (Ohio) and mustered out in June 1865 as a First Lieutenant. The regiment served in Kentucky, Tennessee, and Georgia before joining Sherman's Atlanta Campaign and March to the Sea. He was shot in the hand, and rather than have it amputated, he treated it himself.
During the Civil War Alden Brooks enlisted in Company I, 105th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, as a corporal, for a 3-year term of enlistment, August 13, 1862. He was promoted to 2nd lieutenant, May 5, 1863, Company G, and to 1st Lieutenant, February 18, 1864. He was mustered out at Washington, D.C., June 3, 1865.
[from William Stark (#46521610)]
ALDEN FINNEY BROOKS was born April 3, 1840, in Williamsfield, Ashtabula Co., Ohio, of Charles and Isabel [Thompson] Brooks. He received an academic education in J L. Pickard's institution at Platteville, Wis., from 1857 to 1859. Being in poor health he made the journey to Eureka, Cal., on foot in 1859. In 1861 he returned home and enlisted early in 1862 and served to the close of the war. For the last nine months of service he was on the staff of General George H. Thomas, as topographical engineer, with rank of First Lieutenant. In 1867 he went to New York City and studied a year in the National Academy of Design, having early evinced a taste for painting, and having already done some work in that line, for which, indeed, he inherited an aptitude. He also took lessons from Edwin White, the distinguished historical painter, for a year. In 1870 he came to Chicago, and opened his first studio, and was burnt out in the great fire. He soon re-opened, and has been here ever since, with the exception of the season of 1881-82, which he spent in Paris, as a pupil of Carolus Duran, where he exhibited in the Salon his painting, "Les Favorites." While home on furlough in 1864, he was married to Miss Ellen T. Woodworth. of Wayne, Ashtabula Co., Ohio, by whom he has had four children -- Bessie, December 22, 1866; Fannie, November 22, 1869; Carrie, January 15, 1871, and Merle Thompson, May 9, 1873. Mr. and Mrs. Brooks are members of the Congregational Church of Hyde Park, where they have resided since 1875.
--History of Cook County, Illinois: From the Earliest Period to the Present Time" [A. T. Andreas, Chicago, 1884]
A. F. BROOKS, 93, WINNETKA CRASH VICTIM, IS DEAD
Alden F. Brooks, 93 years old, 518 Elder Lane, Winnetka, a former portrait painter for whom President McKinley once sat, died yesterday from pneumonia following an automobile collision on June 10 at Elder Lane and Woodlawn avenue, in the north shore suburb.
With Mr. Brooks were his granddaughter, Miss Violet Wyld, who lived with him and who was driving, and his daughter, Mrs. George Maher of Kenilworth. Their machine was struck by that of Charles Knapp, 18 years old, 633 Forest avenue, Wilmette, and overturned. Mr. Brooks sustained a fractured collar bone. The women were only slightly hurt. Knapp, a senior at the New Trier township high school was held on charges of involuntary manslaughter.
--Chicago Tribune, 14 June 1932, pg. 26
A member of the Cleveland Grays, a city militia created in 1837, which saw action at Bull Run, Shiloh, Chickamauga and Lookout Mountain, Alden F. Brooks enlisted in 1862 as a Corporal in the 105th Infantry (Ohio) and mustered out in June 1865 as a First Lieutenant. The regiment served in Kentucky, Tennessee, and Georgia before joining Sherman's Atlanta Campaign and March to the Sea. He was shot in the hand, and rather than have it amputated, he treated it himself.
During the Civil War Alden Brooks enlisted in Company I, 105th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, as a corporal, for a 3-year term of enlistment, August 13, 1862. He was promoted to 2nd lieutenant, May 5, 1863, Company G, and to 1st Lieutenant, February 18, 1864. He was mustered out at Washington, D.C., June 3, 1865.
[from William Stark (#46521610)]
ALDEN FINNEY BROOKS was born April 3, 1840, in Williamsfield, Ashtabula Co., Ohio, of Charles and Isabel [Thompson] Brooks. He received an academic education in J L. Pickard's institution at Platteville, Wis., from 1857 to 1859. Being in poor health he made the journey to Eureka, Cal., on foot in 1859. In 1861 he returned home and enlisted early in 1862 and served to the close of the war. For the last nine months of service he was on the staff of General George H. Thomas, as topographical engineer, with rank of First Lieutenant. In 1867 he went to New York City and studied a year in the National Academy of Design, having early evinced a taste for painting, and having already done some work in that line, for which, indeed, he inherited an aptitude. He also took lessons from Edwin White, the distinguished historical painter, for a year. In 1870 he came to Chicago, and opened his first studio, and was burnt out in the great fire. He soon re-opened, and has been here ever since, with the exception of the season of 1881-82, which he spent in Paris, as a pupil of Carolus Duran, where he exhibited in the Salon his painting, "Les Favorites." While home on furlough in 1864, he was married to Miss Ellen T. Woodworth. of Wayne, Ashtabula Co., Ohio, by whom he has had four children -- Bessie, December 22, 1866; Fannie, November 22, 1869; Carrie, January 15, 1871, and Merle Thompson, May 9, 1873. Mr. and Mrs. Brooks are members of the Congregational Church of Hyde Park, where they have resided since 1875.
--History of Cook County, Illinois: From the Earliest Period to the Present Time" [A. T. Andreas, Chicago, 1884]
Alden F. Brooks, 93 years old, 518 Elder Lane, Winnetka, a former portrait painter for whom President McKinley once sat, died yesterday from pneumonia following an automobile collision on June 10 at Elder Lane and Woodlawn avenue, in the north shore suburb.
With Mr. Brooks were his granddaughter, Miss Violet Wyld, who lived with him and who was driving, and his daughter, Mrs. George Maher of Kenilworth. Their machine was struck by that of Charles Knapp, 18 years old, 633 Forest avenue, Wilmette, and overturned. Mr. Brooks sustained a fractured collar bone. The women were only slightly hurt. Knapp, a senior at the New Trier township high school was held on charges of involuntary manslaughter.
--Chicago Tribune, 14 June 1932, pg. 26
A member of the Cleveland Grays, a city militia created in 1837, which saw action at Bull Run, Shiloh, Chickamauga and Lookout Mountain, Alden F. Brooks enlisted in 1862 as a Corporal in the 105th Infantry (Ohio) and mustered out in June 1865 as a First Lieutenant. The regiment served in Kentucky, Tennessee, and Georgia before joining Sherman's Atlanta Campaign and March to the Sea. He was shot in the hand, and rather than have it amputated, he treated it himself.
During the Civil War Alden Brooks enlisted in Company I, 105th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, as a corporal, for a 3-year term of enlistment, August 13, 1862. He was promoted to 2nd lieutenant, May 5, 1863, Company G, and to 1st Lieutenant, February 18, 1864. He was mustered out at Washington, D.C., June 3, 1865.
[from William Stark (#46521610)]
ALDEN FINNEY BROOKS was born April 3, 1840, in Williamsfield, Ashtabula Co., Ohio, of Charles and Isabel [Thompson] Brooks. He received an academic education in J L. Pickard's institution at Platteville, Wis., from 1857 to 1859. Being in poor health he made the journey to Eureka, Cal., on foot in 1859. In 1861 he returned home and enlisted early in 1862 and served to the close of the war. For the last nine months of service he was on the staff of General George H. Thomas, as topographical engineer, with rank of First Lieutenant. In 1867 he went to New York City and studied a year in the National Academy of Design, having early evinced a taste for painting, and having already done some work in that line, for which, indeed, he inherited an aptitude. He also took lessons from Edwin White, the distinguished historical painter, for a year. In 1870 he came to Chicago, and opened his first studio, and was burnt out in the great fire. He soon re-opened, and has been here ever since, with the exception of the season of 1881-82, which he spent in Paris, as a pupil of Carolus Duran, where he exhibited in the Salon his painting, "Les Favorites." While home on furlough in 1864, he was married to Miss Ellen T. Woodworth. of Wayne, Ashtabula Co., Ohio, by whom he has had four children -- Bessie, December 22, 1866; Fannie, November 22, 1869; Carrie, January 15, 1871, and Merle Thompson, May 9, 1873. Mr. and Mrs. Brooks are members of the Congregational Church of Hyde Park, where they have resided since 1875.
--History of Cook County, Illinois: From the Earliest Period to the Present Time" [A. T. Andreas, Chicago, 1884]
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