Montgomery County PA Archives Biographies.....Brooke, J. Milton February 13, 1859 - 
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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

J. MILTON BROOKE, a well known farmer of Springfield 
township, Montgomery county, Pennsylvania, who served a term 
as prothonotary of the county, was born February 13, 1859. 
He is the son of James and Eliza (Stout) Brooke. 

James Brooke (father) was born November 20, 1820.He had five 
children, as follows: Henry S., born December 11, 1847; 
John, born April 22, 1850; George W. born December 25, 1852; 
Charles, born April 22, 1855; and James Milton. Of these 
John and Charles died ill infancy. James Brooke Was by 
occupation a farmer the greater part of his life, he died 
March 27, 1896.

John Brooke (grandfather) emigrated to this country from 
Wales. and located in Frankford, in Philadelphia county, 
Pennsylvania, where he started in business as a blacksmith, 
which occultation he followed successfully for many years. 
He had three sons and one daughter: James (father), Joseph, 
Isaac and Sallie, who married John Phipps, and had three 
children- Tyson, William and Sallie, who died at about 
twenty years of age; William resides in Arizona, and the 
residence of Tyson is unknown. Joseph Brooke was a tobacco 
merchant. He had six children as follows: John, Charles, 
James, Isaac, Joseph and Mary Ann. Joseph and Mary Ann are 
deceased within a few years.

Isaac Brooke, son of John Brooke, had eight children, as 
follows: Evan, Margaret, Emma, Mary and Amanda, all of whom 
are married, and Rebecca, Alice and Bertha, unmarried. The 
husbands of Mary and Margaret died about four years ago, and 
Mary is also now deceased, Evan Brooke is a carpenter by 
trade, as was his father, Isaac J. Brooke.

Of the brothers of J. Milton Brooke, Henry S. was formerly a 
farmer, but he now lives retired at Glenside, in Cheltenham 
township. George W. Brooke and J. Milton Brooke both reside 
at Roslyn Heights, in Springfield township, where both are 
engaged in farming. trucking and gardening.

J. Milton Brooke married, March 13, 1883, Sarah E., daughter 
of Hiram and Sarah (Earnest) Titlow, of Springfield 
township. Her father is deceased, and his widow resides in 
Germantown. The children of J. Milton and Sarah Brooke: 
Ethel S., born April 8, 1884, now a teacher at Willow Grove 
Heights in Abington township; J. Warren, born December 1, 
1885, graduated at Peirce's Business College, in 
Philadelphia, and is now employed with Erben Harding & Co., 
worsted manufacturers, their office, being in the Arcade 
Building, Philadelphia; Lillian, born September 6, 188;, a 
stenographer, employed with Golding & Co., also of 
Philadelphia; Sarah May, born October 23, 1889, who 
graduated from the Springfield public schools in June, 1904: 
Paul Milton, born November 20, 1892, and still attending 
school near his home.

J. Milton Brooke was reared on the farm of his father, 
attending the Harmer Hill Public school, later known as the 
Audenried school, and later the private school of Hugh 
Morrow, a celebrated teacher, at Hatboro. He subsequently 
took a common at the Pierce College of Business in 
Philadelphia. After his marriage he engaged in farming, in 
which occupation he has ever since been employed, except 
while attending to his official duties in the prothonotary's 
office at Norristown. For about ten or twelve years he and 
his father were engaged in the mining of ore can his present 
farm. Mr. Brooke is an active Republican and has always 
taken a prominent part in the politics of his township and 
county. He was appointed mercantile appraiser in 1894, 
serving one terms. His friends, feeling that he would make a 
strong candidate on the party ticket, induced him to make a 
canvass for the nomination, which he secured, and in 
November, 1900, he was elected by a large majority. 

He served the term of three years, and then retired in 
accordance with the custom of late years which does not 
permit a reelection to what are known as the court house 
offices. Mr. Brooke, by his courtesy and obliging demeanor, 
made many friends during his incumbency of the position. He 
stands high in party councils in the county, and in the 
community in which he lives. He is a director of the 
Jenkintown National Bank. He is affiliated with Friendship 
Lodge No. 400, F. & A. M., Abington Chapter No. 245, R. A. 
M., both of Abington; and Caldwell Consistory, thirty-second 
degree. He is also a member of Norristown Lodge No. 714, 
Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks.

The mother of J. Milton Brooke was Miss Eliza Stout, 
daughter of Henry and Ann (Donat) Stout, of Springfield 
township, born November 27, 1812.Henry Stout was son of John 
Jacob Stout,* a native of that part of Germany which borders 
on the Rhine. He came to the United State about the year 
1756.He settled at Rising Sun, in Philadelphia county, below 
Germantown after his marriage. He continued to live there 
until after the Revolutionary War when he removed to 
Cheltenham township, Montgomery county. He was a member of 
the German Reformed church at Germantown, and was buried 
there.

* At a meeting of the Montgomery County Agricultural 
Society, Dr. Hiram Corson read a memorial of the late 
Charles Stout, late president of that body, in the course of 
which he said: "The seven sons and one daughter whom he 
(John Jacob Stout) raised have been progenitors of a 
numerous family. The blood which flowed through the veins of 
their descendants came down through generations of farmers. 
Centuries ago they tilled the fertile valleys of Germany, or 
labored on the vineclad hills of the Rhine. In this country 
they have not abandoned their vocation, but have steadily 
labored to elevate it."
 
Henry Stout (father of Charles) married Ann Donat, daughter 
of Christian Donat, of Springfield township, in 1795. He 
died in Cheltenham township, December 27, 1859. The couple 
had ten children. One of these children was Henry, 
grandfather of J. Milton Brooke, who was born in Springfield 
township, May 18, 1804. He married, in 1833, Ann Ott, 
daughter of Daniel Ott, of Bucks county, Pennsylvania. Of 
their seven children, three sons and one daughter reached 
adult age. They, with their mother, resided on their farm in 
Whitemarsh township, until a few years ago when the mother 
died, and the farm was sold. Charles and his sister reside 
on Butler avenue, Ambler; Christian in Philadelphia, and 
Henry at Broad Axe, in Whitemarsh township, Montgomery 
county.

John Brooke and his wife Frances came from Hagg, in the 
township of Huily, county of York, England, to America in 
the year 1699. They both died of ship fever shortly after 
their arrival at Gloucester, New Jersey, and were buried in 
the Quaker burying ground at Newton Creek, New Jersey. They 
left issue: a son Jonathan, who stayed in England, and two 
daughters, Elizabeth and Abigail. Two sons, James and 
Matthew, came with their parents to America.After burying 
their parents they located in what is known as Limerick 
township, Montgomery county, Pennsylvania.James left issue: 
a son Jonathan, married to Elizabeth Rees, and they left 
issue, a son James, married to Mary Evans, who were the 
parents of Jonathan Brooke.

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