Fred was born July 30th 1898. He was born in Patterson, grew up in Camp Creek and then moved to Brunot, MO with his family when he was eleven.
He took the county teachers examination at fourteen and was awarded a third grade certificate to teach the following year. He received his high school diploma from the Williamsville High School in May 1917 after having spent nineteen months in total high school attendance.
With the outbreak of World War I he enlisted in the Army and was sent to Officers Training School, thereby obtaining the equivalent of one year of college. After being discharged he returned to teaching and going to college and in 1920 returned to Williamsville High School where he had graduated, to become Superintendent of the four-year highschool system.
He came to st. Louis in September 1921 and entered the St. Louis University School of Law. he was offered a position teaching mathematics in the University City Junior High School. He transferred his law work to the night school and accepted the teaching position.
Then Fred obtained the Bachelors degree in Education from the State College at Cape Girardeand the masters from Washington University in the summer of 1945 in Educational Administration this fall.
He was married to Hazel Ella (Houghton) Brooks. She was born November 2nd, 1895 and died August 16th, 1980. She was High School Teacher for the most of her life.
Together they had four boys: Marshall, Stanley, Robert, and Donely.
He died June 29th, 1990 at the age of 91. He and his wife are buried in Kirkwood, Missouri.
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Stories & Documents
Brunot Spring, Dedication Speech by. Dr. Fred E. Brooks
When Rural Electrification come in the early ’30s. a well was drilled on our back porch and the spring was not depended upon for water. […] Read More
Ma-Ma’s Independence Day By Margaret Henson King
MAM-MA’S INDEPENDENCE DAY WE WAITED WITH MAM-MA FOR JESUS TO COME COME TO SET HER FREE AND THERE, AT HER SIDE, I REMEMBERED OLD TIMES […] Read More
Brunot Spring, A Poem By Hazel Henson Weier
Brunot Spring WHEN I WAS JUST A LITTLE GIRL I LOVED, MORE THAN MOST ANYTHING GOING TO SEE GRANDPA AND GRANDMA BROOKS AND DRINKING FROM […] Read More
NP Couple Observe 55th Anniversary (Fred & Hazel Brooks)
Dr. and Mrs. Fred E. Brooks of North Port will celebrate their 55th wedding annivsary on June 24th. They were married on June 24th 1922 […] Read More
Dr. Garrison Pays Tribute To Ten Teachers Who Retire This Spring
Ten classroom teachers are retiring from positions in the University City public schools this year. Those at the University City Senior high school are: Miss […] Read More
Dr. Fred E. Brooks Announces Retirement From Hawthorne
One of University City’s most respected and best loved educators, Dr. Fred E. Brooks, has announced his retirement as principal of the Nathaniel Hawthorne school […] Read More
About Fred Brooks
Dr. Fred E. Brooks, Principal of the Hawthorne School for the past seventeen years, began his teaching career in the rural schools of Wayne County, […] Read More
The Long Trip to St. Louis, 1923 By Fred Brooks
Editor’s note: Few people today can remember what it was like to spend an entire day traveling from Wayne County to St. Louis. Wisking along […] Read More
Williamsville High School 1920 (Fred as the teacher)
This distinguished group of young men and women were members of the 1920 graduating class of Williamsville High School. Fred Brooks is the first person […] Read More
We say “Good Bye” to the Farm and Move to Brunot by Fred Brooks
To leave this environment [Camp Creek] when only eleven years old was a heart breaking experience. I had not been aware that such a move […] Read More
My Ten Years on Upper Camp Creek by Fred Brooks
Any child who has the good fortune to have older sisters and brothers, some of them young adults, is in a most unique position. He […] Read More
Social and Family Life By Charles E. Brooks
In this sophisticated, mechanized age none but some who are classed as II senior citizens are likely to remember ever having attended pea hullings. Pea […] Read More
Estella’s Autobiography: 1902: New Baby & Fred’s Accident
In December of 1902 my mother gave birth to her thirteenth and last baby. In the fall before the baby’s birth my brother Fred got […] Read More
Fred’s Story
No one has the privilege of choosing the time or place of his birth. Perhaps there are those who would have preferred a different time […] Read More
Estella’s Autobiography: 1898, Baby Fred & Isaac The Blacksmith
My brother Frederick Edwin was born July 30, 1898, the twelfth child in our family. I was nine years old when Fred was born. He […] Read More