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Note: From Duluth Herald, Duluth News-Tribune, Duluth, Minnesota, December 25, 1905, page 8, column 2 [letter from Herbert J. Coleman, City Editor, to Lenora Brooke Steinmetz, dated September 27, 1955]
Veteran of War Is Mustered Out
Thomas Goff Brooke Passes Away Quietly at Home Of His Son
Within one day of being eighty years of age, Thomas Goff Brooke, a veteran of the Civil War, answered the last roll call and passed peacefully away yesterday morning at the residence of his son, Clinton Brooke, 5407 London Road. He had been a sufferer from asthma for several years, but the immediate cause of death was a general breaking down of the system, which, combined with the extreme old age of the patient, produced the fatal results which had not been unexpected for some days.
Mr. Brooke was born on Christmas Day, 1825, and was reared in the neighborhood of Newark, O. When the war broke out he assisted in the recruiting of the 76th Regiment of the Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and enlisted as a private in Company C. He fought through the war as a corporal and rose to the post of drum major, which he held when the company was mustered out of service. During the closing days of the service he acted in the capacity of deputy provost marshal and since the end of the war he has been identified with the G. A. R. veterans.
In 1882 the family moved to Minneapolis and nine years later Mr. Brooke came to Duluth to make his home with his son, where he has lived ever since. He leaves a son, Clinton, and a daughter Mary, in this city, and two sons living in Minneapolis, Horace R. and W. Lee Brooke, both engaged in business in that city.
Brief funeral services will be held at the residence this afternoon at 2 o'clock, after which the remains will be shipped to Minneapolis for interment.
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