Sarah Brooks was Stephen Brooks and Hannah Bennett’s fourth child, their fourth and final daughter. Her descendant, Wayne Hollister, wrote a history of her family in his "Brooks Family of Oswego County, New York, and Winnebago County, Wisconsin.” His work informs much of this biography.
Sarah was born July 14, 1818, in Redfield, New York. When she was young, the Brooks family moved to New Hartford, near Utica, New York. Like her older sister Jane, she became a teacher. There is a copy of Sarah’s tuition bill for the spring 1842 term at Cazenovia Female Seminary in Cazenovia, New York. It is highly likely that Jane Brooks attended the same school. The seminary had been founded by the Methodist-Episcopalian Church as a non-sectarian institution for women and is located about 40 miles southwest of Utica and 50 miles south of Redfield. Today, Cazenovia College is a co-educational school offering bachelor’s degrees.
Joseph married Sarah Brooks on September 20, 1848, at Neenah. They settled on his property near the future site of the Insane Hospital. When the 1850 census was taken, the couple farmed at Winnebago Township – which was later part of Oshkosh Township. Their first child, Fredericka, was just seven months old. Two more children, Louisa and Herman, arrived during the 1850s.
When the 1860 census was taken, the Schooleys lived at Neenah, where Sarah raised her children and Joseph had work as a printer. They remained there in 1870, with Joseph working as a brick layer. Their eldest child, Fredericka, had married William Hollister and had a seven month old baby, Anna. Their other daughter, Louisa, was a dressmaker, while young son Herman was a student. Joseph was a brick layer and Sarah kept house at Neenah in 1880. By then, 20-year-old Herman and their 10-year-old granddaughter, Anna Hollister, lived with them. Louisa lived at Neenah with her husband, John W. Nicholson, and newborn baby, Maud, while William and Fredericka Hollister lived with their other two children at Navarino in Shawano County, Wisconsin. The 1885 Wisconsin state census tells us that Joseph and Sarah moved to Shawano City, Wisconsin. In 1895, another census finds the couple in Green Bay, next to the Hollister family.
Joseph and Sarah were in their eighties and had returned to Oshkosh Township by the time of the 1900 census. They lived in the home of their divorced daughter, Louise, and their three Nicholson granddaughters. Within the next year they moved to Milwaukee, where Herman and his family could care for them.
Joseph Schooley died at Herman’s house on February 12, 1902, at the age of 88. Sarah died of pneumonia at Herman’s home, six days after her husband passed, on February 18, 1902. She was 83. Her obituary was written in the Daily Northwestern two days later:
Obituary.
OSHKOSH'S FIRST TEACHER.
Mrs. Sarah B. Schooley, Who Died in Milwaukee Wednesday.
“Mrs. Sarah B. Schooley, who died of pneumonia Wednesday morning at the residence of her son, H.B. Schooley, 353 Fifteenth avenue, Milwaukee, was the first woman to teach school in Oshkosh.
“Mrs. Schooley, whose maiden name was Brooks, was born in New York and came to Oshkosh, Wisconsin, in the early '40s. On September 20, 1848, she married Joseph L. Schooley, a veteran of Houston's army in Texas. After their marriage they lived in Oshkosh, Green Bay, Neenah, Shawano and went to live in Milwaukee with their son four years ago.
“At the time of her husband's death a week before her own, Mrs. Schooley was too ill to be informed. She grew worse from day to day and when finally told of her husband's death was all but unconscious.
“Mrs. Schooley is survived by her son H B. Schooley of Milwaukee and two daughters, Mrs. F.B. Hollister and Mrs. Louisa Nicholson, both of Oshkosh. The funeral occurs Friday afternoon at 1:30 o'clock at the home of Mrs. Nicholson, 7 Frederick avenue.”
Joseph and Sarah (Brooks) Schooley are buried next to one another in Brooks Cemetery north of Oshkosh. They were duly proud of their three children: Daughter Fredericka Schooley married a Civil War veteran, William Wallace Hollister, in 1868. Not long afterward, the couple moved to Navarino in Shawano County, Wisconsin, where he engaged in lumbering. They lived there, and then in Shawano City with their three children, Annie, Ethel, and Myron, until moving to Green Bay around 1892. William developed paralysis of some sort and died from its effects in Green Bay in 1896. Fredericka was left to support herself and did so as a housekeeper in the home of a widower, William Brown, principal of a Green Bay high school, according to the 1900 census. By 1910, she’d moved to Antigo, Wisconsin, where she lived with her son Myron’s family. In 1920, she was in Oshkosh, caring for her 12-year-old grandson, Myron Howell. Finally, by 1930, Fredericka again lived with her son, Myron, this time in Green Bay. She died at age 86, on March 27, 1936, at the Wisconsin Veterans Home in King, Wisconsin. Fredericka was laid to rest at Fort Howard cemetery in Green Bay. Daughter Louisa Schooley married John Willard Nicholson in 1877. They had three girls, Maud Marion, Ora May, and Clara Ethel, and then divorced around 1885. Louisa spent the remainder of her life with her parents or her daughters’ families. The 1903 Oshkosh city directory lists Louisa, widow of John, Maud (stenographer), Ora (dressmaker), and Clara together at 15 Park in the city. In 1910, Louisa worked as a nurse for a private family in Oshkosh. She was listed as divorced, and Ora, a dressmaker, lived with her. She next moved to Minneapolis, according to the 1920 census, where she lived with her daughter Clara McCorison’s family. By the late 1920s, the McCorisons and Louisa were in Inglewood, California. Louisa died September 27, 1941, at age 89. Herman Bryant Schooley married Mary Alice “Minnie” Hicks in 1885. A newspaper wedding announcement tells us that he was a cashier for the Wisconsin Central. The Schooleys arrived in Milwaukee in 1893, where Herman found a job as bookkeeper and later chief clerk for the Cream City Sash and Door Company, a position he held for 25 years. The couple’s two children, James and Barbara, were born in Milwaukee. They left Milwaukee around 1919 and are listed as farmers in the 1920 census at Athelstane, Wisconsin, a hundred miles north of Green Bay. Their stay was short-lived, though, and they returned to Milwaukee around 1922. In 1927, Herman took a job as an accountant at Brook Hill dairy farm at Genesee in Waukesha County. He died at St. Mary’s Hospital in Milwaukee at the age of 76, on June 13, 1936.
Sarah was born July 14, 1818, in Redfield, New York. When she was young, the Brooks family moved to New Hartford, near Utica, New York. Like her older sister Jane, she became a teacher. There is a copy of Sarah’s tuition bill for the spring 1842 term at Cazenovia Female Seminary in Cazenovia, New York. It is highly likely that Jane Brooks attended the same school. The seminary had been founded by the Methodist-Episcopalian Church as a non-sectarian institution for women and is located about 40 miles southwest of Utica and 50 miles south of Redfield. Today, Cazenovia College is a co-educational school offering bachelor’s degrees.
Joseph married Sarah Brooks on September 20, 1848, at Neenah. They settled on his property near the future site of the Insane Hospital. When the 1850 census was taken, the couple farmed at Winnebago Township – which was later part of Oshkosh Township. Their first child, Fredericka, was just seven months old. Two more children, Louisa and Herman, arrived during the 1850s.
When the 1860 census was taken, the Schooleys lived at Neenah, where Sarah raised her children and Joseph had work as a printer. They remained there in 1870, with Joseph working as a brick layer. Their eldest child, Fredericka, had married William Hollister and had a seven month old baby, Anna. Their other daughter, Louisa, was a dressmaker, while young son Herman was a student. Joseph was a brick layer and Sarah kept house at Neenah in 1880. By then, 20-year-old Herman and their 10-year-old granddaughter, Anna Hollister, lived with them. Louisa lived at Neenah with her husband, John W. Nicholson, and newborn baby, Maud, while William and Fredericka Hollister lived with their other two children at Navarino in Shawano County, Wisconsin. The 1885 Wisconsin state census tells us that Joseph and Sarah moved to Shawano City, Wisconsin. In 1895, another census finds the couple in Green Bay, next to the Hollister family.
Joseph and Sarah were in their eighties and had returned to Oshkosh Township by the time of the 1900 census. They lived in the home of their divorced daughter, Louise, and their three Nicholson granddaughters. Within the next year they moved to Milwaukee, where Herman and his family could care for them.
Joseph Schooley died at Herman’s house on February 12, 1902, at the age of 88. Sarah died of pneumonia at Herman’s home, six days after her husband passed, on February 18, 1902. She was 83. Her obituary was written in the Daily Northwestern two days later:
Obituary.
OSHKOSH'S FIRST TEACHER.
Mrs. Sarah B. Schooley, Who Died in Milwaukee Wednesday.
“Mrs. Sarah B. Schooley, who died of pneumonia Wednesday morning at the residence of her son, H.B. Schooley, 353 Fifteenth avenue, Milwaukee, was the first woman to teach school in Oshkosh.
“Mrs. Schooley, whose maiden name was Brooks, was born in New York and came to Oshkosh, Wisconsin, in the early '40s. On September 20, 1848, she married Joseph L. Schooley, a veteran of Houston's army in Texas. After their marriage they lived in Oshkosh, Green Bay, Neenah, Shawano and went to live in Milwaukee with their son four years ago.
“At the time of her husband's death a week before her own, Mrs. Schooley was too ill to be informed. She grew worse from day to day and when finally told of her husband's death was all but unconscious.
“Mrs. Schooley is survived by her son H B. Schooley of Milwaukee and two daughters, Mrs. F.B. Hollister and Mrs. Louisa Nicholson, both of Oshkosh. The funeral occurs Friday afternoon at 1:30 o'clock at the home of Mrs. Nicholson, 7 Frederick avenue.”
Joseph and Sarah (Brooks) Schooley are buried next to one another in Brooks Cemetery north of Oshkosh. They were duly proud of their three children: Daughter Fredericka Schooley married a Civil War veteran, William Wallace Hollister, in 1868. Not long afterward, the couple moved to Navarino in Shawano County, Wisconsin, where he engaged in lumbering. They lived there, and then in Shawano City with their three children, Annie, Ethel, and Myron, until moving to Green Bay around 1892. William developed paralysis of some sort and died from its effects in Green Bay in 1896. Fredericka was left to support herself and did so as a housekeeper in the home of a widower, William Brown, principal of a Green Bay high school, according to the 1900 census. By 1910, she’d moved to Antigo, Wisconsin, where she lived with her son Myron’s family. In 1920, she was in Oshkosh, caring for her 12-year-old grandson, Myron Howell. Finally, by 1930, Fredericka again lived with her son, Myron, this time in Green Bay. She died at age 86, on March 27, 1936, at the Wisconsin Veterans Home in King, Wisconsin. Fredericka was laid to rest at Fort Howard cemetery in Green Bay. Daughter Louisa Schooley married John Willard Nicholson in 1877. They had three girls, Maud Marion, Ora May, and Clara Ethel, and then divorced around 1885. Louisa spent the remainder of her life with her parents or her daughters’ families. The 1903 Oshkosh city directory lists Louisa, widow of John, Maud (stenographer), Ora (dressmaker), and Clara together at 15 Park in the city. In 1910, Louisa worked as a nurse for a private family in Oshkosh. She was listed as divorced, and Ora, a dressmaker, lived with her. She next moved to Minneapolis, according to the 1920 census, where she lived with her daughter Clara McCorison’s family. By the late 1920s, the McCorisons and Louisa were in Inglewood, California. Louisa died September 27, 1941, at age 89. Herman Bryant Schooley married Mary Alice “Minnie” Hicks in 1885. A newspaper wedding announcement tells us that he was a cashier for the Wisconsin Central. The Schooleys arrived in Milwaukee in 1893, where Herman found a job as bookkeeper and later chief clerk for the Cream City Sash and Door Company, a position he held for 25 years. The couple’s two children, James and Barbara, were born in Milwaukee. They left Milwaukee around 1919 and are listed as farmers in the 1920 census at Athelstane, Wisconsin, a hundred miles north of Green Bay. Their stay was short-lived, though, and they returned to Milwaukee around 1922. In 1927, Herman took a job as an accountant at Brook Hill dairy farm at Genesee in Waukesha County. He died at St. Mary’s Hospital in Milwaukee at the age of 76, on June 13, 1936.
Sarah Brooks was Stephen Brooks and Hannah Bennett’s fourth child, their fourth and final daughter. Her descendant, Wayne Hollister, wrote a history of her family in his "Brooks Family of Oswego County, New York, and Winnebago County, Wisconsin.” His work informs much of this biography.
Sarah was born July 14, 1818, in Redfield, New York. When she was young, the Brooks family moved to New Hartford, near Utica, New York. Like her older sister Jane, she became a teacher. There is a copy of Sarah’s tuition bill for the spring 1842 term at Cazenovia Female Seminary in Cazenovia, New York. It is highly likely that Jane Brooks attended the same school. The seminary had been founded by the Methodist-Episcopalian Church as a non-sectarian institution for women and is located about 40 miles southwest of Utica and 50 miles south of Redfield. Today, Cazenovia College is a co-educational school offering bachelor’s degrees.
Joseph married Sarah Brooks on September 20, 1848, at Neenah. They settled on his property near the future site of the Insane Hospital. When the 1850 census was taken, the couple farmed at Winnebago Township – which was later part of Oshkosh Township. Their first child, Fredericka, was just seven months old. Two more children, Louisa and Herman, arrived during the 1850s.
When the 1860 census was taken, the Schooleys lived at Neenah, where Sarah raised her children and Joseph had work as a printer. They remained there in 1870, with Joseph working as a brick layer. Their eldest child, Fredericka, had married William Hollister and had a seven month old baby, Anna. Their other daughter, Louisa, was a dressmaker, while young son Herman was a student. Joseph was a brick layer and Sarah kept house at Neenah in 1880. By then, 20-year-old Herman and their 10-year-old granddaughter, Anna Hollister, lived with them. Louisa lived at Neenah with her husband, John W. Nicholson, and newborn baby, Maud, while William and Fredericka Hollister lived with their other two children at Navarino in Shawano County, Wisconsin. The 1885 Wisconsin state census tells us that Joseph and Sarah moved to Shawano City, Wisconsin. In 1895, another census finds the couple in Green Bay, next to the Hollister family.
Joseph and Sarah were in their eighties and had returned to Oshkosh Township by the time of the 1900 census. They lived in the home of their divorced daughter, Louise, and their three Nicholson granddaughters. Within the next year they moved to Milwaukee, where Herman and his family could care for them.
Joseph Schooley died at Herman’s house on February 12, 1902, at the age of 88. Sarah died of pneumonia at Herman’s home, six days after her husband passed, on February 18, 1902. She was 83. Her obituary was written in the Daily Northwestern two days later:
Obituary.
OSHKOSH'S FIRST TEACHER.
Mrs. Sarah B. Schooley, Who Died in Milwaukee Wednesday.
“Mrs. Sarah B. Schooley, who died of pneumonia Wednesday morning at the residence of her son, H.B. Schooley, 353 Fifteenth avenue, Milwaukee, was the first woman to teach school in Oshkosh.
“Mrs. Schooley, whose maiden name was Brooks, was born in New York and came to Oshkosh, Wisconsin, in the early '40s. On September 20, 1848, she married Joseph L. Schooley, a veteran of Houston's army in Texas. After their marriage they lived in Oshkosh, Green Bay, Neenah, Shawano and went to live in Milwaukee with their son four years ago.
“At the time of her husband's death a week before her own, Mrs. Schooley was too ill to be informed. She grew worse from day to day and when finally told of her husband's death was all but unconscious.
“Mrs. Schooley is survived by her son H B. Schooley of Milwaukee and two daughters, Mrs. F.B. Hollister and Mrs. Louisa Nicholson, both of Oshkosh. The funeral occurs Friday afternoon at 1:30 o'clock at the home of Mrs. Nicholson, 7 Frederick avenue.”
Joseph and Sarah (Brooks) Schooley are buried next to one another in Brooks Cemetery north of Oshkosh. They were duly proud of their three children: Daughter Fredericka Schooley married a Civil War veteran, William Wallace Hollister, in 1868. Not long afterward, the couple moved to Navarino in Shawano County, Wisconsin, where he engaged in lumbering. They lived there, and then in Shawano City with their three children, Annie, Ethel, and Myron, until moving to Green Bay around 1892. William developed paralysis of some sort and died from its effects in Green Bay in 1896. Fredericka was left to support herself and did so as a housekeeper in the home of a widower, William Brown, principal of a Green Bay high school, according to the 1900 census. By 1910, she’d moved to Antigo, Wisconsin, where she lived with her son Myron’s family. In 1920, she was in Oshkosh, caring for her 12-year-old grandson, Myron Howell. Finally, by 1930, Fredericka again lived with her son, Myron, this time in Green Bay. She died at age 86, on March 27, 1936, at the Wisconsin Veterans Home in King, Wisconsin. Fredericka was laid to rest at Fort Howard cemetery in Green Bay. Daughter Louisa Schooley married John Willard Nicholson in 1877. They had three girls, Maud Marion, Ora May, and Clara Ethel, and then divorced around 1885. Louisa spent the remainder of her life with her parents or her daughters’ families. The 1903 Oshkosh city directory lists Louisa, widow of John, Maud (stenographer), Ora (dressmaker), and Clara together at 15 Park in the city. In 1910, Louisa worked as a nurse for a private family in Oshkosh. She was listed as divorced, and Ora, a dressmaker, lived with her. She next moved to Minneapolis, according to the 1920 census, where she lived with her daughter Clara McCorison’s family. By the late 1920s, the McCorisons and Louisa were in Inglewood, California. Louisa died September 27, 1941, at age 89. Herman Bryant Schooley married Mary Alice “Minnie” Hicks in 1885. A newspaper wedding announcement tells us that he was a cashier for the Wisconsin Central. The Schooleys arrived in Milwaukee in 1893, where Herman found a job as bookkeeper and later chief clerk for the Cream City Sash and Door Company, a position he held for 25 years. The couple’s two children, James and Barbara, were born in Milwaukee. They left Milwaukee around 1919 and are listed as farmers in the 1920 census at Athelstane, Wisconsin, a hundred miles north of Green Bay. Their stay was short-lived, though, and they returned to Milwaukee around 1922. In 1927, Herman took a job as an accountant at Brook Hill dairy farm at Genesee in Waukesha County. He died at St. Mary’s Hospital in Milwaukee at the age of 76, on June 13, 1936.
Sarah was born July 14, 1818, in Redfield, New York. When she was young, the Brooks family moved to New Hartford, near Utica, New York. Like her older sister Jane, she became a teacher. There is a copy of Sarah’s tuition bill for the spring 1842 term at Cazenovia Female Seminary in Cazenovia, New York. It is highly likely that Jane Brooks attended the same school. The seminary had been founded by the Methodist-Episcopalian Church as a non-sectarian institution for women and is located about 40 miles southwest of Utica and 50 miles south of Redfield. Today, Cazenovia College is a co-educational school offering bachelor’s degrees.
Joseph married Sarah Brooks on September 20, 1848, at Neenah. They settled on his property near the future site of the Insane Hospital. When the 1850 census was taken, the couple farmed at Winnebago Township – which was later part of Oshkosh Township. Their first child, Fredericka, was just seven months old. Two more children, Louisa and Herman, arrived during the 1850s.
When the 1860 census was taken, the Schooleys lived at Neenah, where Sarah raised her children and Joseph had work as a printer. They remained there in 1870, with Joseph working as a brick layer. Their eldest child, Fredericka, had married William Hollister and had a seven month old baby, Anna. Their other daughter, Louisa, was a dressmaker, while young son Herman was a student. Joseph was a brick layer and Sarah kept house at Neenah in 1880. By then, 20-year-old Herman and their 10-year-old granddaughter, Anna Hollister, lived with them. Louisa lived at Neenah with her husband, John W. Nicholson, and newborn baby, Maud, while William and Fredericka Hollister lived with their other two children at Navarino in Shawano County, Wisconsin. The 1885 Wisconsin state census tells us that Joseph and Sarah moved to Shawano City, Wisconsin. In 1895, another census finds the couple in Green Bay, next to the Hollister family.
Joseph and Sarah were in their eighties and had returned to Oshkosh Township by the time of the 1900 census. They lived in the home of their divorced daughter, Louise, and their three Nicholson granddaughters. Within the next year they moved to Milwaukee, where Herman and his family could care for them.
Joseph Schooley died at Herman’s house on February 12, 1902, at the age of 88. Sarah died of pneumonia at Herman’s home, six days after her husband passed, on February 18, 1902. She was 83. Her obituary was written in the Daily Northwestern two days later:
Obituary.
OSHKOSH'S FIRST TEACHER.
Mrs. Sarah B. Schooley, Who Died in Milwaukee Wednesday.
“Mrs. Sarah B. Schooley, who died of pneumonia Wednesday morning at the residence of her son, H.B. Schooley, 353 Fifteenth avenue, Milwaukee, was the first woman to teach school in Oshkosh.
“Mrs. Schooley, whose maiden name was Brooks, was born in New York and came to Oshkosh, Wisconsin, in the early '40s. On September 20, 1848, she married Joseph L. Schooley, a veteran of Houston's army in Texas. After their marriage they lived in Oshkosh, Green Bay, Neenah, Shawano and went to live in Milwaukee with their son four years ago.
“At the time of her husband's death a week before her own, Mrs. Schooley was too ill to be informed. She grew worse from day to day and when finally told of her husband's death was all but unconscious.
“Mrs. Schooley is survived by her son H B. Schooley of Milwaukee and two daughters, Mrs. F.B. Hollister and Mrs. Louisa Nicholson, both of Oshkosh. The funeral occurs Friday afternoon at 1:30 o'clock at the home of Mrs. Nicholson, 7 Frederick avenue.”
Joseph and Sarah (Brooks) Schooley are buried next to one another in Brooks Cemetery north of Oshkosh. They were duly proud of their three children: Daughter Fredericka Schooley married a Civil War veteran, William Wallace Hollister, in 1868. Not long afterward, the couple moved to Navarino in Shawano County, Wisconsin, where he engaged in lumbering. They lived there, and then in Shawano City with their three children, Annie, Ethel, and Myron, until moving to Green Bay around 1892. William developed paralysis of some sort and died from its effects in Green Bay in 1896. Fredericka was left to support herself and did so as a housekeeper in the home of a widower, William Brown, principal of a Green Bay high school, according to the 1900 census. By 1910, she’d moved to Antigo, Wisconsin, where she lived with her son Myron’s family. In 1920, she was in Oshkosh, caring for her 12-year-old grandson, Myron Howell. Finally, by 1930, Fredericka again lived with her son, Myron, this time in Green Bay. She died at age 86, on March 27, 1936, at the Wisconsin Veterans Home in King, Wisconsin. Fredericka was laid to rest at Fort Howard cemetery in Green Bay. Daughter Louisa Schooley married John Willard Nicholson in 1877. They had three girls, Maud Marion, Ora May, and Clara Ethel, and then divorced around 1885. Louisa spent the remainder of her life with her parents or her daughters’ families. The 1903 Oshkosh city directory lists Louisa, widow of John, Maud (stenographer), Ora (dressmaker), and Clara together at 15 Park in the city. In 1910, Louisa worked as a nurse for a private family in Oshkosh. She was listed as divorced, and Ora, a dressmaker, lived with her. She next moved to Minneapolis, according to the 1920 census, where she lived with her daughter Clara McCorison’s family. By the late 1920s, the McCorisons and Louisa were in Inglewood, California. Louisa died September 27, 1941, at age 89. Herman Bryant Schooley married Mary Alice “Minnie” Hicks in 1885. A newspaper wedding announcement tells us that he was a cashier for the Wisconsin Central. The Schooleys arrived in Milwaukee in 1893, where Herman found a job as bookkeeper and later chief clerk for the Cream City Sash and Door Company, a position he held for 25 years. The couple’s two children, James and Barbara, were born in Milwaukee. They left Milwaukee around 1919 and are listed as farmers in the 1920 census at Athelstane, Wisconsin, a hundred miles north of Green Bay. Their stay was short-lived, though, and they returned to Milwaukee around 1922. In 1927, Herman took a job as an accountant at Brook Hill dairy farm at Genesee in Waukesha County. He died at St. Mary’s Hospital in Milwaukee at the age of 76, on June 13, 1936.
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