Pardon A. Brooks was born at Rockfield, Worcester county, Massachusetts, May 20, 1806, and came to Lyndon in 1837. He married Miss Olive Dean, September 12, 1833. Their children have been: Hiram P., born July 18, 1834; William H., born June 30,1837; Isabella, born November 10, 1839; Susan L born February 26, 1843; Lucien B., born June 27, 1848; Samuel P. born June 17, 1850, and Rufus F., born April 5,1852. Isabella and Lucien died in infancy. Mrs. Brooks died August 4, 1857, and on the 5th of September, 1859, Mr. Brooks married Miss Julia Reynolds. The children by this marriage were: Horace M., born August 16, 1860; George E., born December 12, 1862, died in infancy; Esther M., born July 18, 1865. Susan L. married Frank J. Coles October October 30, 1862; one child, Frank B.
Mr. Brooks brought the first separating threshing machine into the state from Maine by way of New Orleans to Alton, where he commenced running it with good success.
Bent & Wilson History 1877
