1885

The January 3rd issue of the Portland (Maine) Times-Herald carries an article featuring John Brooks whom it describes as "Eliot's Grand Old Man." The picture heading the article shows John and Mrs. Brooks sitting in front of a grandfather's clock, which would seem to indicate that they are spending the winter at their home in Eliot rather than in Exeter, N.H., as they did last year. John's peripatetic career is described as "doing a heap of living all over the world" and the record it quotes of the places where he has lived at various times surprises even the Secretary of '85. Following his graduation he taught for a year, then went to St. Paul, Minn., and as a civil engineer worked on various railroads in Minnesota, lowa and Illinois, and then back to Massachusetts to the engineering firm of J. Edwin Jones.

Following these experiences he became instructor of civil engineering at Lehigh University, then professor of civil engineering at the University of Kentucky, transferring to the University of Illinois and ending his work as an educator at Potsdam, N.Y., as president of Clarkson College. Now at the serene age of 94 he, with Mrs. Brooks and daughter Elizabeth, is living at Eliot, Maine.

His contemporaries address him "Doctor" Brooks because of the honorary degree conferred by his Alma Mater several years ago.

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