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William Brooks 1888 - 1974

William Brooks of Newport News, Newport News City County, Virginia was born on March 1, 1888, and died at age 86 years old in February 1974.

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In 1888, in the year that William Brooks was born, on July 25th, a court stenographer from Salt Lake City - Frank Edward McGurrin - decisively beat the competition in a typing contest in Ohio. He was supposedly the only person who used touch typing and is believed to have invented the method. Touch typing is ubiquitous now - but Frank's win is what convinced everyone that the method was good!
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In 1894, when he was just 6 years old, on April 21st, a coal miners' strike closed mines throughout the central United States. The Panic of 1893, and the resulting depression, hit coal miners hard and the miners only struck for 8 weeks - they couldn't afford to live without their wages any longer.
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Brooks, Sarah Martha Washington (Born Apr 15, 1863) Brooks, Martha (Born 1881) Brooks, Mary (Mar 6, 1851 - Sep 1, 1920) Brooks, Edwin (Born Dec 24, 1878) Brooks, Charles Brooks-Mcbee, Olive (Born 1892) Brooks-Henley, Lois (Born 1899) Brooks-Meeks, Ora (Born 1891) Brooks-Reed, Johnnie (Born 1903) Brooks-Reed, Dorothy (Born 1901)
Brooks-Roddy, Lena (Born 1897) Brooks-Hutchinson, Hayes (Born 1905) Brooks, Wallace (Born Oct 1865) Brooks, Stephen (Born Aug 8, 1822) Brooks, Timothy (Born Oct 26, 1828) Brooks, Anna (Born Mar 17, 1857) Brooks, Frederick (Born Jul 29, 1862) Brooks, Caroline (Born Jan 22, 1866) Brooks, Sabrina (Born Aug 28, 1820) Lewis, Charlotte (Born Mar 26, 1853)
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