IDAHO COUNTY FREE PRESS

  OCTOBER 24, 1901

  Edward W. Brooks, one of the pioneers of Warren’s diggins, died at Harpster, on October 23, 1901 of Bright’s disease.  He was aged 74.  He left Warren last week to visit with friends and was a guest of James Serge when he died.

Edward Brooks was born in England, March 4, 1828 and came to the U.S. When quite a young man having left the royal navy.  He located in California in the early ‘50’s and engaged in placer mining until the mining excitement in Idaho , when he came north and located in Warren, then Washington mining district, in 1863.  He was busily employed in various mining enterprises up to the date of his death.  A few years since he acquired title to a large body of placer ground on the big meadows, which he sold in 1898 and engaged in quartz mining and made a sale for $6,000.  Last year he again resumed quartz mining and broke his leg by a cave in of the tunnel from which he had recovered, and spent the past summer in the camp, uncovering a rich vein of ore.  He intended to spend the winter in Lewiston or southern California.  He spent a good deal of his time on Camas Prairie, where he has a homestead.  Mr. Brooks appointed his old friend, A.W. Talkington executor to his large estate.  It is not known that he has any relatives in this country or England. 

  The deceased was buried at Mt. Idaho with Masonic honors, having been a Master Mason since 1877.  Mr. Brooks was of a modest disposition and like to many of the old timers, had the faculty of staying with his friends like the sturdy, honest and blunt old Englishman that he was.  Peace to his ashes.

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