Montgomery County PA Archives Biographies.....Brooke, William June 23, 1841 - 
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Source: Biographical Annals of Montgomery County Pennsylvania, T. S. Benham & Company and the Lewis Publishing Company, 1904
Author: Ellwood Roberts, Editor

  WILLIAM BROOKE, a retired farmer, residing at NO. 259 
Chestnut street, Pottstown, was born in Limerick township, 
Montgomery county, Pennsylvania, June 23, 1841. He is the 
son of Robert and Catharine (Yost) Brooke, both of whom were 
born in Montgomery county.

  Robert Brooke (father) was a teamster for twelve years, 
driving a six-horse team to Pittsburg. He later bought a 
farm in Limerick township, where he lived for forty-five 
years, and where he died, June 11, 1880, at the age of 
eighty years. His wife died in 1878, at the age of seventy 
years. She belonged to the German Reformed church. Mr. 
Brooke was a member of the school board for a number of 
years. They had twelve children, nine sons and three 
daughters, seven of whom are now living: Michael; Mary 
Elizabeth, widow of John A. Loughridge; Martha, wife of 
Andrew Fenstermacher; William; Charles; Kate, wife of 
William H. Jones; and Isaac.
 
  Matthew Brooke (grandfather) lived in Montgomery county 
during the greater part of his life. He was a farmer by 
occupation. He married Mary Stetler and they had a large 
family. The Brooke family is of English descent, Matthew 
Brooke having come to America from England, accompanied by 
his brother, early in the eighteenth century.

  Peter Yost (maternal grandfather) was born in Pennsylvania 
and lived in Montgomery county most of his life. He owned 
the mill now known as the Kepler Mill, and carried on the 
milling business in connection with farming. He married 
Elizabeth Ziegler and they had a large family. The Yost 
family is of German origin.

  William Brooke has lived in Montgomery county all his 
life. He was reared on the farm and attended the district 
schools in his youth and he lived at home until the time of 
his father's death. He then abandoned farming and removed to 
Pottstown in 1882. He built his present home in 1888.

  December 31, 1880, William Brooke married Miss Effietta 
Scholl, daughter of Conrad and Elizabeth (Scholl) Scholl. 
They had no children. Mrs. Brooke died June 23, 1891, at the 
age of fifty-eight years. She was a member of the Lutheran 
church. Her parents lived in Montgomery county all their 
lives.

  August 13, 1862, William Brooke enlisted in Company H, 
Sixty-eighth Pennsylvania Regiment, commanded by Colonel 
Lipton. He served one year as a corporal. He was in the 
battles of Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville, in the 
latter of which he was badly wounded in the right arm, May 
3, 1863. He was confined in Carver Hospital at Washington 
for three months, and was mustered out of service on August 
13, 1863, and returned to his farm.

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