History of Fresno County, California, with biographical sketches of the leading men and women of the county who have been identified with its growth and development from the early days to the present . culture; and having improvedan orchard at the corner of Palm and Olive Streets, he built an ornate resi-dence, and finally sold the property at a good profit. Then he bought thecorner of Chittenden and McKinley Avenues, and improved the same byplanting vines and .sowing alfalfa. He had forty-four acres of stubble fieldand hog wallow; but he worked hard and steadily at it, and finally developedit
History of Fresno County, California, with biographical sketches of the leading men and women of the county who have been identified with its growth and development from the early days to the present . culture; and having improvedan orchard at the corner of Palm and Olive Streets, he built an ornate resi-dence, and finally sold the property at a good profit. Then he bought thecorner of Chittenden and McKinley Avenues, and improved the same byplanting vines and .sowing alfalfa. He had forty-four acres of stubble fieldand hog wallow; but he worked hard and steadily at it, and finally developedit into a vineyard thirty-seven acres in size, devoted to muscat and Thomp-son grapes, while on the remaining acres he raised alfalfa. His resignationfrom public office was due to his desire to give closer attention to his viti-cultural interests. Mr. Brooks has been married four times, each marriage bringing of happiness. The first ceremony took place in South Carolina in1879, when he was joined to Nannie Shell, who died on January 13, second marriage occurred at Fresno, in Septeml)er, 1890, when he chosefor his bride Miss Dora Harbison, who was born in Johnson County, 111.,. HISTORY OF FRESNO COUNTY 1027 and by whom he had three children: \\illiam Arthur, who is a bookkeeperat the Concoran office of the San Joaquin Light & Power Company; Audrey,a stenographer with the Smith Lithograph Company; and Charles Bartlett,who is with Bixler Cleaning Company in Fresno. Mrs. Brooks died in his third marriage Mr. Brooks led to the altar Mrs. Carrie B: Gillispie, ofWashington County, Pa., who breathed her last in 1912. His last marriagetook place at Orosi in February, 1916, when ]\Tiss Winnie Liebau, who wasborn in Elk County, Kans., became his wife. She is the daughter of Williamand Minnie (Weide) Liebau, and came to Tulare as early as 1904, whenher father engaged in viticulture. She was educated in Kansas, and be-speaks all the graces of the women of that sta
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