CHAPTER XX.
CITY OF BROOKFIELD
Its Location - The Scatters - The Usual
Remarks About Game, etc. - Who Gave it a Local Habitation and a
Name - Boarding Shanties and Several Other Things - Laid Out and
How it Grew and Prospered - In 1861 Had Grown to About fifteen
Houses and Some Other Buildings - The First Child Born and What
Followed - Deaths and Burials - Father Hogan - The First School
- Brookfield in the Civil War - Some Facts and Some Rumors Upon
Which Facts Were Based - Brookfield Survived - Small-pox Scare -
Tragedies Growing out of the Great Strife - The New Era and the
Past to be Buried in Oblivion - Churches, Schools, Societies,
etc.
(Source: History of Linn County,
Missouri - Publ. Kansas City, Mo. by Birdsall & Dean - 1882)
- pg. 487 - 498
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