Background
Brooks, Fred Emerson was born on December 5, 1850 in Waverley, New York, United States. Son of William and Matilda C. (Stone) Brooks.
Brooks, Fred Emerson was born on December 5, 1850 in Waverley, New York, United States. Son of William and Matilda C. (Stone) Brooks.
Bachelor of Arts, Madison (now Colgate) University, 1873.
Well known as reader of his own poems on lyceum platform. Author: Battle Ballads, 1886. Old Ace and Other Poems, 1899.
Pickett’s Charge and Other Poems, 1903.
Buttered Toasts, 1911. Cream Toasts, 1915; The Gravedigger, 1916.
Patriotic Toasts, 1917. Also Christmas Cantatas, Jonnie Doubter, 1900.
Santa Claus’ Minstrels, 1901.
Comic opera, The Missing Link, 1917. The Land of Arcadie, 1917. Father Goose Melodies, 1920.
California and Other Poems, 1921.
(moving picture plays) John Cardon—the Cattle King, Zargo, The Prospector, The Sultan and the Brigand, Yankee Doodledum, Crazy Philosophy, The Alconda, The Vapor Bath (all 1921). Home: Berkeley, California.
Married Mary Emma Tregidgo, December, 1884 (died January 18, 1907). Married second, Emma Jahn Holmes, March 28, 1913.