WILLIAM KEITH BROOKS 429 



too constant attendance upon the meetings of an Interna- 

 tional Zoological Congress to take a trolley trip from Boston 

 to Concord! 



A fourth Joshua Brooks served at the battle of Concord, but 

 lived at Lincoln, now a part of Concord, Massachusetts. His son, 

 the fifth and last Joshua Brooks, removed from Lincoln to Burling- 

 ton, Vermont, and it was his son, Oliver Allen Brooks, who re- 

 moved to Cleveland, Ohio, after the family had been but so short 

 a time outside the bounds of Massachusetts. 



On the mother's side the line of descent ran from John Kingsley 

 through Eldad who lived in Dorchester, Massachusetts, and then 

 through three men, John, Amos, and Isaiah Kingsley, who repre- 

 sented the family for some one hundred years at Windham, 

 Connecticut. The next in descent, Phinheas, the son of Isaiah 

 Kingsley, removed when ten years old, with his father, to Vermont. 

 But here again the family remained but one generation in this 

 state, for the second Phinheas Kingsley removed to Ohio. 



Thus on one side seven, and on the other six, generations lived 

 in Massachusetts and in Connecticut ill a brief sojourn in Ver- 

 mont led them on to Ohio where Ellenora Bradbury Kingsley 

 and Oliver Allen Brooks became the parents of William Keith 

 Brooks. 



In dearth of facts one may speculate that some of the excellencies 

 that were given birth in him may have been due to summation of 

 ancestral traits handed on by the Keith family, for may it not be 

 significant that not only was the grandmother of William Keith 

 Brooks on his mother's side a Parnel Keith, who was born in 1786, 

 in Massachusetts, and lived to the age of 82 years, but his grand- 

 mother on the paternal side was a Melinda Keith, of Pittsford, 

 Vermont, born in 1787. It was this name, "Keith," that was to 

 be singled out by his best friend and helper, his wife, the "woman 

 who understood," as a poet has it, for his special personal name. 



The boy was educated in the Public Schools of Cleveland, 

 attending a grammar school known as the Eagle Street School, 

 and after that going to the Central High School, when fifteen, for 

 at least three years. Here his rank was from 80 to 100, with 



