BROOK, DANIEL H.
Now successfully established in medical practice at Claude, Dr. Brook began his practical career as a court reporter, and with his aspirations always directed toward a permanent position of opportunity and service in the world he eventually secured the means and completed preparation for his present work.
Daniel H. Brook was born in Butler county, Alabama, August 26, 1878, a son of J. I. and Susan (Shine) Brook. His father, a native of Alabama, and now one of the best known residents of Claude, Texas, came to this state in 1880, and was for many years a stock farmer until he retired. He served in an Alabama regiment during the Civil war, and has always been a loyal Democratic voter, and a member of the Methodist church. The mother was born in Alabama in 1844, and died in Collin County, Texas, in 1902, at the age of fifty-eight. She was married in her native state. Of the four children, two sons and two daughters, Dr. Brook was the third. He spent his boyhood chiefly in Collin County, receiving an education in the public schools there, and graduating from the high school in 1898. He then took up stenography, became a reporter in Fort Worth, the county seat of Tarrant county, and in that way acquired the funds to get him through his medical course. He was for two years a student in the Southwestern Medical College at Dallas, and completed his studies in the Tulane University at New Orleans, graduating in the year 1906. His first practice was in Collin County, where he remained until 1909, in which year he established his office at Claude, in Armstrong county. He has a large private practice, and is also acting as county health officer.
In politics he is a Democrat, but takes no active part in practical party affairs. He is a member of the Potter County Medical Society, the State Medical Society, the Southern Medical Association, and the American Medical Association. Fraternally he is one of the prominent Masons, having taken all the degrees of the Scottish Bite, including the thirty-second, and having his membership in Dallas Consistory, No. 2, Texas. He is also affiliated with the Woodmen of the World, is an interested worker in the Commercial Club organization at Claude. On December 5, 1903, Dr. Brook married Miss Pierce Young, who was born in Texas, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Young, of Arkansas, old residents of that vicinity. Her mother still resides in that county. Dr. Brook and wife have three children: Winston, born in Collin county, October 4, 1904; Glidewell, born in Collin county, May 20, 1907; and J. E., born at Claude, June 24, 1909. (A History of Texas and Texans, Volume 3, Francis White Johnson, 1914. sd)
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Now successfully established in medical practice at Claude, Dr. Brook began his practical career as a court reporter, and with his aspirations always directed toward a permanent position of opportunity and service in the world he eventually secured the means and completed preparation for his present work.
Daniel H. Brook was born in Butler county, Alabama, August 26, 1878, a son of J. I. and Susan (Shine) Brook. His father, a native of Alabama, and now one of the best known residents of Claude, Texas, came to this state in 1880, and was for many years a stock farmer until he retired. He served in an Alabama regiment during the Civil war, and has always been a loyal Democratic voter, and a member of the Methodist church. The mother was born in Alabama in 1844, and died in Collin County, Texas, in 1902, at the age of fifty-eight. She was married in her native state. Of the four children, two sons and two daughters, Dr. Brook was the third. He spent his boyhood chiefly in Collin County, receiving an education in the public schools there, and graduating from the high school in 1898. He then took up stenography, became a reporter in Fort Worth, the county seat of Tarrant county, and in that way acquired the funds to get him through his medical course. He was for two years a student in the Southwestern Medical College at Dallas, and completed his studies in the Tulane University at New Orleans, graduating in the year 1906. His first practice was in Collin County, where he remained until 1909, in which year he established his office at Claude, in Armstrong county. He has a large private practice, and is also acting as county health officer.
In politics he is a Democrat, but takes no active part in practical party affairs. He is a member of the Potter County Medical Society, the State Medical Society, the Southern Medical Association, and the American Medical Association. Fraternally he is one of the prominent Masons, having taken all the degrees of the Scottish Bite, including the thirty-second, and having his membership in Dallas Consistory, No. 2, Texas. He is also affiliated with the Woodmen of the World, is an interested worker in the Commercial Club organization at Claude. On December 5, 1903, Dr. Brook married Miss Pierce Young, who was born in Texas, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Young, of Arkansas, old residents of that vicinity. Her mother still resides in that county. Dr. Brook and wife have three children: Winston, born in Collin county, October 4, 1904; Glidewell, born in Collin county, May 20, 1907; and J. E., born at Claude, June 24, 1909. (A History of Texas and Texans, Volume 3, Francis White Johnson, 1914. sd)
Contributor: Sherry (47010546) • [email protected]
BROOK, DANIEL H.
Now successfully established in medical practice at Claude, Dr. Brook began his practical career as a court reporter, and with his aspirations always directed toward a permanent position of opportunity and service in the world he eventually secured the means and completed preparation for his present work.
Daniel H. Brook was born in Butler county, Alabama, August 26, 1878, a son of J. I. and Susan (Shine) Brook. His father, a native of Alabama, and now one of the best known residents of Claude, Texas, came to this state in 1880, and was for many years a stock farmer until he retired. He served in an Alabama regiment during the Civil war, and has always been a loyal Democratic voter, and a member of the Methodist church. The mother was born in Alabama in 1844, and died in Collin County, Texas, in 1902, at the age of fifty-eight. She was married in her native state. Of the four children, two sons and two daughters, Dr. Brook was the third. He spent his boyhood chiefly in Collin County, receiving an education in the public schools there, and graduating from the high school in 1898. He then took up stenography, became a reporter in Fort Worth, the county seat of Tarrant county, and in that way acquired the funds to get him through his medical course. He was for two years a student in the Southwestern Medical College at Dallas, and completed his studies in the Tulane University at New Orleans, graduating in the year 1906. His first practice was in Collin County, where he remained until 1909, in which year he established his office at Claude, in Armstrong county. He has a large private practice, and is also acting as county health officer.
In politics he is a Democrat, but takes no active part in practical party affairs. He is a member of the Potter County Medical Society, the State Medical Society, the Southern Medical Association, and the American Medical Association. Fraternally he is one of the prominent Masons, having taken all the degrees of the Scottish Bite, including the thirty-second, and having his membership in Dallas Consistory, No. 2, Texas. He is also affiliated with the Woodmen of the World, is an interested worker in the Commercial Club organization at Claude. On December 5, 1903, Dr. Brook married Miss Pierce Young, who was born in Texas, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Young, of Arkansas, old residents of that vicinity. Her mother still resides in that county. Dr. Brook and wife have three children: Winston, born in Collin county, October 4, 1904; Glidewell, born in Collin county, May 20, 1907; and J. E., born at Claude, June 24, 1909. (A History of Texas and Texans, Volume 3, Francis White Johnson, 1914. sd)
Contributor: Sherry (47010546) • [email protected]
Now successfully established in medical practice at Claude, Dr. Brook began his practical career as a court reporter, and with his aspirations always directed toward a permanent position of opportunity and service in the world he eventually secured the means and completed preparation for his present work.
Daniel H. Brook was born in Butler county, Alabama, August 26, 1878, a son of J. I. and Susan (Shine) Brook. His father, a native of Alabama, and now one of the best known residents of Claude, Texas, came to this state in 1880, and was for many years a stock farmer until he retired. He served in an Alabama regiment during the Civil war, and has always been a loyal Democratic voter, and a member of the Methodist church. The mother was born in Alabama in 1844, and died in Collin County, Texas, in 1902, at the age of fifty-eight. She was married in her native state. Of the four children, two sons and two daughters, Dr. Brook was the third. He spent his boyhood chiefly in Collin County, receiving an education in the public schools there, and graduating from the high school in 1898. He then took up stenography, became a reporter in Fort Worth, the county seat of Tarrant county, and in that way acquired the funds to get him through his medical course. He was for two years a student in the Southwestern Medical College at Dallas, and completed his studies in the Tulane University at New Orleans, graduating in the year 1906. His first practice was in Collin County, where he remained until 1909, in which year he established his office at Claude, in Armstrong county. He has a large private practice, and is also acting as county health officer.
In politics he is a Democrat, but takes no active part in practical party affairs. He is a member of the Potter County Medical Society, the State Medical Society, the Southern Medical Association, and the American Medical Association. Fraternally he is one of the prominent Masons, having taken all the degrees of the Scottish Bite, including the thirty-second, and having his membership in Dallas Consistory, No. 2, Texas. He is also affiliated with the Woodmen of the World, is an interested worker in the Commercial Club organization at Claude. On December 5, 1903, Dr. Brook married Miss Pierce Young, who was born in Texas, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Young, of Arkansas, old residents of that vicinity. Her mother still resides in that county. Dr. Brook and wife have three children: Winston, born in Collin county, October 4, 1904; Glidewell, born in Collin county, May 20, 1907; and J. E., born at Claude, June 24, 1909. (A History of Texas and Texans, Volume 3, Francis White Johnson, 1914. sd)
Contributor: Sherry (47010546) • [email protected]
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