. Electric railway journal . ident of that com-pany. Mr. Brooks was born at Waco, Tex., on March 4, 1865. He was educated inprivate schools in Waco, theWaco Military Academy, and the Texas State Col-lege, making a specialty ofengineering in the latter in-stitution. He became iden-tified with the constructionof the New Orleans & TexasPacific Railway in 1882,and afterwards with theconstruction of extensionsof the Cincinnati SouthernRailway. He was laterassociated with the engi-neering and other depart-ments of the Louisville, NewOrleans & Texas Railway,which was afterward ac-quired by the Illino
. Electric railway journal . ident of that com-pany. Mr. Brooks was born at Waco, Tex., on March 4, 1865. He was educated inprivate schools in Waco, theWaco Military Academy, and the Texas State Col-lege, making a specialty ofengineering in the latter in-stitution. He became iden-tified with the constructionof the New Orleans & TexasPacific Railway in 1882,and afterwards with theconstruction of extensionsof the Cincinnati SouthernRailway. He was laterassociated with the engi-neering and other depart-ments of the Louisville, NewOrleans & Texas Railway,which was afterward ac-quired by the Illinois Cen-tral Railroad. Mr. Brooks went to Detroit in 1895 asgeneral manager of the Rapid Railway, an interurban lineoperating between Detroit and Port Huron. This was hisfirst connection with the electric railway business. In 1903the Rapid Railway having come under the control of theDetroit United Railway, Mr. Brooks was made assistantgeneral manager of the latter company, and shortly afterhe was made general f. w. BROOKS January 22, 1916] ELECTRIC RAILWAY JOURNAL 191
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