Andrew Brookhiser Shoots Self With Revolver, Dies - Well Known Resident Passes Away in Hospital After Firing Bullet Into Temple; Discovered in Parked Auto on Stewart Road - Andrew J. Brookhiser, 52, of 507 North Market street, well known resident, died yesterday afternoon at 1:15 in the Nathan Littauer hospital, after shooting himself in the right temple with a .38 calibre revolver white seated in his car parked on the Stewart (Farm-to-Market) road, about midway between the Johnstown-Caroga Lake road and Meco. (..) He was in the grocery business for a time in the north end of the city, then for a period of between fifteen and twenty years was salesman for S. Morse & Son, Schenectady jobbing concern, but left the road about a year ago, it is said. (..) Mr. Brookhiser was born February 12, 1889, was member of St. Patrick's lodge 4, F. & A. M. and his affable manner and pleasant disposition had won for him a large circle of friends who were shocked to learn of his tragic end. (..) The survivors are his wife; one daughter, Mrs. H. S. Van Steenburgh of Gloversville; one son, Everett J., employed by the General Electric Co., in Schenectady; his mother, Mrs. Philip Lites of Canajoharie; one sister, Mrs. Chauncey J. Stoller of Johnstown and one brother, Fred J. Brookhiser of Buffalo. (..) The body was removed to the A. G. Cole funeral home, to be prepared for interment, and will be brought to the family home today. It will be returned to the Cole funeral home Wednesday morning and the funeral will be held there that afternoon at 2:30. The Rev. W. M. Zuehlke of St. Paul's will officiate and interment will be made in Fern Dale cemetery. Gloversville NY Morning Herald, Tuesday, October 7, 1941.

Married Nina Belle Fonda in 1915.