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CHAUNCY BROOKS, contractor and builder, of the village of Montgomery, N. Y., was born in 1842 at Eagle Valley
in what was then the town of Monroe. His father traded Monroe Village, depot and all, for four hundred acres of
land at what is now called Tuxedo. He still has a brother, Malcom Brooks, there, who is ex supervisor of Tuxedo.
As a young man he taught school for a while in his home district, and then learned to be an architect and builder.
In 1867 he came to Montgomery, where he has achieved much prominence both as a contractor and in the affairs of
the village. He was president of the board of water commissioners for six years during the time of its construction,
and a member of the school board for nine years. In 1869 Mr. Brooks married Martha, daughter of Thomas and Mary
(Mould) Wait, and three children have been born to them. Charles W., a civil engineer and graduate of Brown's University
and also of Philadelphia University, resides at Washington and is in the employ of the government in the War and
Navy Department. Alida W. is a graduate of the Emerson College of Boston and of the College of Albany, and is still
attending the University of New York City and teaching at Bayonne, N. J. She is a teacher of elocution and physical
culture. His youngest daughter, Minnie M., is a graduate of Montgomery High School, also of the Metropolitan College
of Music. She resides at Montgomery, where she is giving instruction in music. Mr. Brooks has erected most of the
substantial buildings in Montgomery and vicinity and gives employment regularly to a large force of men.
From:
The History of Orange County New York
Edited by: Russel Headley
Van Deusen and Elms, Publishers
Middletown, N. Y. 1908
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