childrenAlpharetta Brookins · John C. Brookins · Walter R. Brookins · N. Orville Brookins
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What the record says
Born Oct 14, 1858.
Member of Dayton city council from the Fourth ward.
Secretary and treasurer of the Mathias Planing Mill company.
Reared on a farm in Madison township.
Attended National Normal College at Lebanon.
Taught school nine years in Montgomery county.
Learned bookkeeping/shorthand at A. D. Wilt's Commercial College.
Joined S. N. Brown & Co. in 1889.
Married Clara Belle Spitler in 1880.
Member Hope lodge No. 277 K. of P., Oak lodge I.O.O.F., and Dayton lodge No. 147 F. & A. M.
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