BLACKSMITH AND METALWORKER
"One of 13 children of Revolutionary War veteran William Brooks, jR. and Deborah Parker, Thomas Jefferson Brooks, Sr. was named for his father's idol of American "institution building" - President Thomas Jefferson.
Thomas Brooks became "independent " early in life and left the family home with his marriage to Abigail Wetherby Tenney, daughter of a retired teacher and minister, Rev. Isaac Tenney on Feb. 4, 1823 in Bennington, Hillsborough Co. NH.
A blacksmith by trade, he relocated from rural New Hampshire (Amherst) to work seasonally in the growing industrial town of Manchester, NH. He adapted his skills in metalwork to tool-making industries that were in growing demand. Manchester was one of a series of industrial centers that spruted after the Revolution and attracted young works from rural areas. This city was one of the growing centers for metalwork and tool manufacturing.
Unfortunately, Thomas died in a workplace industrial accident there, at the age of 42, leaving a widow and a young family with six children (Thomas Jefferson, Jr, James Henry, Isaac, Oscar Mortimer, Abigail Elizabeth, William Clark.) He was buried with his father and mother in the family grave site in Pine Ridge Cemetery in Hancock, NH."
from "Biographies of the Early Brooks Family of Massachusetts" by Wright W. Brooks (1973).
"One of 13 children of Revolutionary War veteran William Brooks, jR. and Deborah Parker, Thomas Jefferson Brooks, Sr. was named for his father's idol of American "institution building" - President Thomas Jefferson.
Thomas Brooks became "independent " early in life and left the family home with his marriage to Abigail Wetherby Tenney, daughter of a retired teacher and minister, Rev. Isaac Tenney on Feb. 4, 1823 in Bennington, Hillsborough Co. NH.
A blacksmith by trade, he relocated from rural New Hampshire (Amherst) to work seasonally in the growing industrial town of Manchester, NH. He adapted his skills in metalwork to tool-making industries that were in growing demand. Manchester was one of a series of industrial centers that spruted after the Revolution and attracted young works from rural areas. This city was one of the growing centers for metalwork and tool manufacturing.
Unfortunately, Thomas died in a workplace industrial accident there, at the age of 42, leaving a widow and a young family with six children (Thomas Jefferson, Jr, James Henry, Isaac, Oscar Mortimer, Abigail Elizabeth, William Clark.) He was buried with his father and mother in the family grave site in Pine Ridge Cemetery in Hancock, NH."
from "Biographies of the Early Brooks Family of Massachusetts" by Wright W. Brooks (1973).
BLACKSMITH AND METALWORKER
"One of 13 children of Revolutionary War veteran William Brooks, jR. and Deborah Parker, Thomas Jefferson Brooks, Sr. was named for his father's idol of American "institution building" - President Thomas Jefferson.
Thomas Brooks became "independent " early in life and left the family home with his marriage to Abigail Wetherby Tenney, daughter of a retired teacher and minister, Rev. Isaac Tenney on Feb. 4, 1823 in Bennington, Hillsborough Co. NH.
A blacksmith by trade, he relocated from rural New Hampshire (Amherst) to work seasonally in the growing industrial town of Manchester, NH. He adapted his skills in metalwork to tool-making industries that were in growing demand. Manchester was one of a series of industrial centers that spruted after the Revolution and attracted young works from rural areas. This city was one of the growing centers for metalwork and tool manufacturing.
Unfortunately, Thomas died in a workplace industrial accident there, at the age of 42, leaving a widow and a young family with six children (Thomas Jefferson, Jr, James Henry, Isaac, Oscar Mortimer, Abigail Elizabeth, William Clark.) He was buried with his father and mother in the family grave site in Pine Ridge Cemetery in Hancock, NH."
from "Biographies of the Early Brooks Family of Massachusetts" by Wright W. Brooks (1973).
"One of 13 children of Revolutionary War veteran William Brooks, jR. and Deborah Parker, Thomas Jefferson Brooks, Sr. was named for his father's idol of American "institution building" - President Thomas Jefferson.
Thomas Brooks became "independent " early in life and left the family home with his marriage to Abigail Wetherby Tenney, daughter of a retired teacher and minister, Rev. Isaac Tenney on Feb. 4, 1823 in Bennington, Hillsborough Co. NH.
A blacksmith by trade, he relocated from rural New Hampshire (Amherst) to work seasonally in the growing industrial town of Manchester, NH. He adapted his skills in metalwork to tool-making industries that were in growing demand. Manchester was one of a series of industrial centers that spruted after the Revolution and attracted young works from rural areas. This city was one of the growing centers for metalwork and tool manufacturing.
Unfortunately, Thomas died in a workplace industrial accident there, at the age of 42, leaving a widow and a young family with six children (Thomas Jefferson, Jr, James Henry, Isaac, Oscar Mortimer, Abigail Elizabeth, William Clark.) He was buried with his father and mother in the family grave site in Pine Ridge Cemetery in Hancock, NH."
from "Biographies of the Early Brooks Family of Massachusetts" by Wright W. Brooks (1973).
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