Biographies
Source:
Biographical History of Northeastern Ohio
Embracing the Counties of
Ashtabula, Trumbull and Mahoning
Containing Portraits of all the Presidents of the United States, with a
Biography of each,
together with Portraits and Biographies of Joshua R. Giddings, Benjamin
F. Wade,
and a large number of the Early Settlers and
Representative Families of to-day.
"Biography is the only true history." - Emerson
CHICAGO:
THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY.
1893
Transcribed by Sharon Wick
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DR.
G. W. BROOKE, who is well known not only in
professional circles but as a prominent politician of Mahoning
county, Ohio, is the subject of the following biographical sketch.
He is a native of the county in which he now resides, born in Goshen
township, April 29, 1828, a son of Basil Brooke, who was born
in Genesee county, New York in 1805. His paternal grandfather,
James Brooke, was a native of Maryland and belonged to one of
the prominent Quaker families of that State. He married a
Miss Boone, cousin to Daniel Boone of Kentucky, and they
removed to Mahoning county, Ohio, and settled in Goshen township,
where they passed their lives. They reared a family of eight
children, of whom Basil Brooke was one. He was married
at the age of twenty-four years to Rachel Morris, a native of
New Jersey and a member of a Quaker family. His death occurred
in 1832, the result of a malignant fever. He left a widow and
four children: Hester B., G. W., Deborah, and Basil.
The mother still survives, at the age of eighty-seven years, and is
an honored resident of Goshen township. Dr. Brooke grew
to years of maturity in Goshen township, and received his education
in the common schools and academies of the county.
He began the study of medicine in 1847 under the
preceptorship of D. J. W. Hughes, a successful physician of
Berlin township. The following year he attended lectures in
the city of Cleveland, Ohio, and in 1851 was graduated from the
Cleveland Medical College. In 1852 Dr. M. B. Hughes
died at Ellsworth and immediately Dr. Brooke located there.
He has had an active career in his profession, and has met with
marked success as a practitioner. He is a member of the Union
Medical Society, Ohio State Medical Society, American Medical
Congress and the American Medical Association. He has,
however, not been confined strictly the medical profession, but has
represented the people of Mahoning county in the legislative halls
of Ohio, as a member of the House of Representatives; he was elected
to the office in 1867, and served two terms, - a period of four
years, -- with great credit to himself and to the best interests of
his constituency. In the time of the lamented Garfield he was
his warm personal friend, and gave the martyr president his
enthusiastic support. He was one of the Presidential Electors
in 1860, and cast his vote for Abraham Lincoln. He has
frequently been a delegate to national, State, district and county
convention that first nominated Garfield for Congress.
In 1863 he was appointed by the Government as surgeon of the Twelfth
Ohio Cavalry, and saw much service on the field of battle.
Mr. Brooke was united in marriage in 1852 to
Theda A. Carter, who was born in Genesee county, New York, a
daughter of Loren Carter. The Doctor and his wife had a
family of four children: Ella wife of William Allen;
Clara, Georgia and Theda. Mrs. Brooke passed from
this life to the unknown future in 1874. In 1878 Dr. Brooke
was married to his present wife, Mary E. Williams, a daughter
of B. and Margaret Williams. They have one son,
Syden B. Brooke.
Having a birthright in the society of Friends, Dr.
Brooke has never united with any other denomination. He is
a man of sterling worth, sincere in his convictions, stanch and true
in his friendships, and worthy of the confidence reposed in him by a
wide circle of professional colleagues and political associates.
Source:
Biographical History of Northeastern Ohio
Embracing the Counties of
Ashtabula, Trumbull and Mahoning - Publ. Chicago: The Lewis Publishing
Company, 1893 - Page 684 |
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