History of Clinton County, IndianaTogether with sketches of its cities, villages and towns, educational, religious, civil, military, and political history, portraits of prominent persons, and biographies of representative citizensAlso a condensed history of Indiana, embodying accounts of prehistoric races, Indian wars, and a brief review of its civil and political history . and iiis wife of the Presbyterianchurch. Politically he was an old-line Whig. John A., the sub-ject of this sketcli, was fourteen years of age when he came toClinton County, and a year later removed to Carroll County, wher6
History of Clinton County, IndianaTogether with sketches of its cities, villages and towns, educational, religious, civil, military, and political history, portraits of prominent persons, and biographies of representative citizensAlso a condensed history of Indiana, embodying accounts of prehistoric races, Indian wars, and a brief review of its civil and political history . and iiis wife of the Presbyterianchurch. Politically he was an old-line Whig. John A., the sub-ject of this sketcli, was fourteen years of age when he came toClinton County, and a year later removed to Carroll County, wher6he resided until the death of his father. His mother then, withher family, returned to Clinton County. John remained withhis mother until he was twenty-tive years of age. May 13,1850, he was united in marriage with Miss Mary, a daughterof David and Elizabeth McCuUin, the former of Irish and thelatter of Welsh descent. Mrs. Brookie was a native of MasonCounty, Kentucky, where her father died when she was threeyears of age; after which her mother moved to Adams County,Ohio, and in 184:5, to Clinton County, Indiana. After hismarriage Mr. Brookie purchased a part of tlie old liomesteadon the Twelve-Mile Prairie, where he lived six years, then settledupon his present farm, which was then a dense wilderness, andimproved 280 acres, forty of wliich lie in Boone County. They. ?^i t^^^^?^/^^^ JACKSON TOWNSHIP. k^ are the parents of eleven children, eight still living—Eliza M.,Marj E., Harvey R., Esther A., Alina J., Thomas A., William A.,Mattie E. The deceased are—James R., John E. and an infant. and wife are both members of the Presbyterian he is a Republican; was formerly an old-line Whig. Robert A. Brookie was born in Woodward County, Kentucky,June 11, 1826, the third son and fifth child of William and Mary(Dougherty) Brookie. When he was about eight years of agehis parents emigrated to Clinton County, Indiana, where his youthwas spent in helping to c
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