Background
Brookings, Walter Dubois was born on February 28, 1873 in Keokuk, Iowa, United States. Son of John Emory and Emma (DuBois) Brookings.
Brookings, Walter Dubois was born on February 28, 1873 in Keokuk, Iowa, United States. Son of John Emory and Emma (DuBois) Brookings.
Bachelor of Arts, Harvard, 1895. Bachelor of Laws, 1898.
Secretary and treasurer Brookings Lumber & Box Company, Highland, California, 1899-1912, Brookings (Oregon) Timber & Lumber Company, 1912-1917, Brookings (Oregon) Land & Town Site Company, 1912-1917. Vice president Brookings Commercial Company, 1915-1917. Investigated pulpwood and forest resources, and paper bag industry in France, Great Britain, Germany and Canada, for Union Bag & Paper Corporation of New York City, 1919-1920.
Secretary, Mississippi Flood Control Committee, National Water Power Development Committee Captain, Company East, 2d Battalion, 20th Engineers, American Expeditionary Force, October 1917-July 1918.
In charge securing timber-lands in the Vosges to supply American armies in Eastern France with lumber and timber. Major 1st Battalion, 20th Engineers, July 1918-February 1919.
In charge six lumbering operations near Pyrenees. As representative of Herbert Hoover, took first shipload relief food to Baltic region, landing at Libau, Latvia, March 1919, and remained there until August 1919.
Citation American Expeditionary Force “for exceptionally meritorious service”.
Silver medal (Polish).
Member Pi Eta, Gamma Delta Psi. Clubs: Cosmos, Harvard, Army and Navy Country (Washington, District of Columbia).
Married Marian Kinney, November 19, 1909 (died June 3, 1926). Married second, Martha Nutting Brooks, August 27, 1929. Children: Robert Somers, Walter DuBois, Henry Nason K., Mary McIntosh.