"An Illustrated history of Baker, Grant, Malheur and Harney Counties : with a
brief outline of the early history of the state of Oregon." Chicago?: Western
Historical Pub. Co., 1902.  Page 314.  Baker County.

JAMES C. BROOKS

     The good, substantial citizen and prosperous farmer whose name appears
above is a native of Newcastle, Delaware, born in 1843, his parents being Josiah
and Mariah (Long) Brooks, likewise natives of Delaware.  He was educated at
Newcastle, where the school was maintained by funds bequeathed to it by William
Penn, for the purpose of educating its youth.  In 1868 he accompanied the
remainder of the family to Kansas, in which state his father died, the date
being 1872.  He then assumed the management of the paternal estate, removing
shortly with his mother and the other children to the Grande Ronde valley,
Oregon, where they remained between the years 1875 and 1877.  In the latter year
they removed to Pine valley, located on a homestead of one hundred and sixty
acres, two and a quarter miles northeast of Halfway postoffice, and engaged in
cattle raising and general farming.  He has a fine place and is comfortably
situated, but has never been married and since the death of his mother, on July
13, 1888, has been without the cares and without the pleasures of domesticity.
The remains of his mother were laid to rest in Halfway cemetery, after she had
trodden the course of the pilgrim for one more year than the allotted three
score and ten.
     Mr. Brooks owns nearly two hundred head of cattle, and thirty horses, being
a skillful handler of stock.  He is one of the earliest settlers of this valley
and deserves great credit for his labors here.

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Submitted to the Oregon Bios. Project in September 2005 by Diana Smith.
Submitter has no additional information about the person(s) or family mentioned
above.