WABASHA COUNTY, MINNESOTA
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			HISTORY OF WABASHA COUNTY


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                        HISTORY OF WINONA COUNTY

                                  CHICAGO:
                      H. H. HILL & COMPANY, PUBLISHERS.
                                     1884

Brooks, Dwight Frederick, physician at Minneiska, was ushered into this world June 10, 1849, at 
 Redfield, New York. His parents, Sheldon and Jeanette Brooks, were natives of the same state. Both 
 his father's father and mother's father were participants in the war of 1812. At the age of seven years 
 our subject came to Beaver, Winona county, Minnesota, where he remained till 1862, at which time he 
 took up his abode at Minneiska. Up to this time his education had been received at the common 
 schools; but now he pursued the studies of Latin and Greek, under the tutorship of Mr. W. B. Bunnell, 
 a noted educator at that time. Soon after this he placed himself in the medical department of Michigan 
 University, at Ann Arbor, but graduated in medicine at Long Island College Hospital, in 1876. Since 
 that time he has been not only following his profession, but is largely engaged in commercial pursuits. 
 In 1876 Mr. Brooks was chosen as delegate to attend the American Medical Association at 
 Philadelphia, and has remained a permanent member ever since. He is also a member of the 
 Minnesota State Medical Society and of the Wabasha County Medical Society. In 1875 he was united 
 in marriage to Anna G. Keyes, of Winona, and have two children, Harry K., born in September, 1876, 
 and Dwight S., born in March, 1878. Mrs. Brooks is a member of the Congregational church. Dr. 
 Brooks' parents, who were many years residents of Minneiska, removed to Winona, where the former 
 died in the spring of 1883. He was well known there as one of the noble men of that county's early 
 settlement.