Amos Brooks

    Amos Brooks was born in Troy, New York, October 22, 1839, and is one of the five children of Amos and Elizabeth (Upham) Brooks, the name of said children being Theodore, Francis, Jerusha, Elizabeth and Amos, of whom the first and last alone survive. The father of Amos was born in Massachusetts about 1793; was by occupation a tanner; was a soldier of the war of 1812, and died in Troy, New York in 1842.

    When our subject was three years old, he removed with his mother to St. Thomas, Ontario; thence they moved to Detroit, Michigan, and thence went back to Troy, where his mother died; after remaining ten years, he removed to Kankakee County, Illinois, where he was a schoolmaster. In 1863, he came to this county (Warren) and located at State Line City, where he taught four years, and thence, after three years, to his present place.

    Mr. Brooks was married June 19, 1862, to Rhoda Hiser, by whom he had four boys -John W., A. Theodore, Alva (deceased) and Paul P. Mr. Brooks resides one and a quarter miles south of State Line City, on his fine farm of 157 acres (twenty-five of which lie one and a half miles southeast and fifty-two , three miles southeast); the land is mostly under cultivation, well drained and adapted to wheat, corn, hay and oats; he also raises some stock. Mr. Brooks has made many improvements, having a comfortable frame dwelling and commodious stables.

    He is a Freemason, a member of the Christian church, and an earnest advocate of education.

Source: Counties of Warren, Benton, Jasper and Newton, Indiana. Historical and Biographical. F.A. Battey & Co., 1883.