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GEORGE H. BROOKS was born at Mountainville, and his education was in the district school. From his youth until
nineteen years of age he assisted his father on the farm. In 1875 he went to Turners, N. Y., and worked at blacksmithing
four years, came to Chester in 1879, and was with Joseph Gavin two years; then went to Sugar Loaf, Orange County,
and opened a shop there, which he conducted ten years. In 1891 he came to Chester and purchased of S. Hadden the
establishment in which he had been manufacturing buggies for thirty five years. He enlarged it, added new and improved
machinery, making of it one of the best appointed manufactories in the county. He is a Methodist in religion and
a republican in politics. In September, 1885, he was married to Eliza Litchult. Their seven children's names are
Dora L., Lena C., Elsie, Helen, Merry, Clarence and Phoebes J. Mr. Brooks's father is still living at the age of
ninety at Little Britain in the town of New Windsor.
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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