MEDICAL DOCTOR
" Charles Noyes Brooks was the second son in the large family of Judge Frank Clark Brooks and Ella Rosette Noyes Brooks of Minneapolis. As a young boy he told his family that he was going to become a "medical doctor" so that he could "help sick people". His own mother had died of tuberculosis, after years of lingering illness. Young Charles had often help care for his mother over the years. This experience had a profound impression on the boy and formwd his choice of lifework and profession. He did graduate from the University of Minnesota in Medicine (1909), completing his medical training in 1910 at Minneapolis General Hospital. After specialty training in Chicago, he opened his Family Practice in Minneapolis, maintaining this practice for over 50 years. He was also a longtime member of the Minnesota and Hennepin County Medical Association where he served on its board.
A gregarious and outgoing personality, he inherited his father's warmth, sociability and easily made friends and influenced people. Over the course of his life he enthusiastically joined in all sorts of social and community activities. He had special love of sports and competitive bridge and card games. He always was available for a hand of bridge or whist; he himself was a gifted athlete, lettering in three sports at Minneapolis Central High School. At the university he played both the " new" game of football and basketball . He was a member of the Delta Kappa Epsilon (DKE) fraternity at the University of Minnesota, along with his two brothers, William Clark(Law) and Frank(Accounting). They were known on campus as the rowdy "Brooks Boys" for their part in fraternity antics. "Charlie" was a member of the Inter-fraternity Council and Rush Chairman of his fraternity; his yearbook photo was accompanied by reference to his good looks, favor among the coeds and signature curly blonde locks.
Charlie Brooks collected friends. He maintained many of his school and college friendships lifelong."
He married his high school and college sweetheart, Florence Wright in 1908. They had four children, Wright William, Eluzabeth Idell, Dorothy, and Charles Noyes, Junior.
After retirement, the couple moved from their longtime Lowry Hill home to a small one story renovated historic railroad foreman property on the shores of Lake Minnetonka in Wayzata, Minnesota.
Charles died in 1973, predeceasing Florence."
Biography by D. Montgomery, in "Biographies of the Brooks Family of Minnesota" (2009).
" Charles Noyes Brooks was the second son in the large family of Judge Frank Clark Brooks and Ella Rosette Noyes Brooks of Minneapolis. As a young boy he told his family that he was going to become a "medical doctor" so that he could "help sick people". His own mother had died of tuberculosis, after years of lingering illness. Young Charles had often help care for his mother over the years. This experience had a profound impression on the boy and formwd his choice of lifework and profession. He did graduate from the University of Minnesota in Medicine (1909), completing his medical training in 1910 at Minneapolis General Hospital. After specialty training in Chicago, he opened his Family Practice in Minneapolis, maintaining this practice for over 50 years. He was also a longtime member of the Minnesota and Hennepin County Medical Association where he served on its board.
A gregarious and outgoing personality, he inherited his father's warmth, sociability and easily made friends and influenced people. Over the course of his life he enthusiastically joined in all sorts of social and community activities. He had special love of sports and competitive bridge and card games. He always was available for a hand of bridge or whist; he himself was a gifted athlete, lettering in three sports at Minneapolis Central High School. At the university he played both the " new" game of football and basketball . He was a member of the Delta Kappa Epsilon (DKE) fraternity at the University of Minnesota, along with his two brothers, William Clark(Law) and Frank(Accounting). They were known on campus as the rowdy "Brooks Boys" for their part in fraternity antics. "Charlie" was a member of the Inter-fraternity Council and Rush Chairman of his fraternity; his yearbook photo was accompanied by reference to his good looks, favor among the coeds and signature curly blonde locks.
Charlie Brooks collected friends. He maintained many of his school and college friendships lifelong."
He married his high school and college sweetheart, Florence Wright in 1908. They had four children, Wright William, Eluzabeth Idell, Dorothy, and Charles Noyes, Junior.
After retirement, the couple moved from their longtime Lowry Hill home to a small one story renovated historic railroad foreman property on the shores of Lake Minnetonka in Wayzata, Minnesota.
Charles died in 1973, predeceasing Florence."
Biography by D. Montgomery, in "Biographies of the Brooks Family of Minnesota" (2009).
MEDICAL DOCTOR
" Charles Noyes Brooks was the second son in the large family of Judge Frank Clark Brooks and Ella Rosette Noyes Brooks of Minneapolis. As a young boy he told his family that he was going to become a "medical doctor" so that he could "help sick people". His own mother had died of tuberculosis, after years of lingering illness. Young Charles had often help care for his mother over the years. This experience had a profound impression on the boy and formwd his choice of lifework and profession. He did graduate from the University of Minnesota in Medicine (1909), completing his medical training in 1910 at Minneapolis General Hospital. After specialty training in Chicago, he opened his Family Practice in Minneapolis, maintaining this practice for over 50 years. He was also a longtime member of the Minnesota and Hennepin County Medical Association where he served on its board.
A gregarious and outgoing personality, he inherited his father's warmth, sociability and easily made friends and influenced people. Over the course of his life he enthusiastically joined in all sorts of social and community activities. He had special love of sports and competitive bridge and card games. He always was available for a hand of bridge or whist; he himself was a gifted athlete, lettering in three sports at Minneapolis Central High School. At the university he played both the " new" game of football and basketball . He was a member of the Delta Kappa Epsilon (DKE) fraternity at the University of Minnesota, along with his two brothers, William Clark(Law) and Frank(Accounting). They were known on campus as the rowdy "Brooks Boys" for their part in fraternity antics. "Charlie" was a member of the Inter-fraternity Council and Rush Chairman of his fraternity; his yearbook photo was accompanied by reference to his good looks, favor among the coeds and signature curly blonde locks.
Charlie Brooks collected friends. He maintained many of his school and college friendships lifelong."
He married his high school and college sweetheart, Florence Wright in 1908. They had four children, Wright William, Eluzabeth Idell, Dorothy, and Charles Noyes, Junior.
After retirement, the couple moved from their longtime Lowry Hill home to a small one story renovated historic railroad foreman property on the shores of Lake Minnetonka in Wayzata, Minnesota.
Charles died in 1973, predeceasing Florence."
Biography by D. Montgomery, in "Biographies of the Brooks Family of Minnesota" (2009).
" Charles Noyes Brooks was the second son in the large family of Judge Frank Clark Brooks and Ella Rosette Noyes Brooks of Minneapolis. As a young boy he told his family that he was going to become a "medical doctor" so that he could "help sick people". His own mother had died of tuberculosis, after years of lingering illness. Young Charles had often help care for his mother over the years. This experience had a profound impression on the boy and formwd his choice of lifework and profession. He did graduate from the University of Minnesota in Medicine (1909), completing his medical training in 1910 at Minneapolis General Hospital. After specialty training in Chicago, he opened his Family Practice in Minneapolis, maintaining this practice for over 50 years. He was also a longtime member of the Minnesota and Hennepin County Medical Association where he served on its board.
A gregarious and outgoing personality, he inherited his father's warmth, sociability and easily made friends and influenced people. Over the course of his life he enthusiastically joined in all sorts of social and community activities. He had special love of sports and competitive bridge and card games. He always was available for a hand of bridge or whist; he himself was a gifted athlete, lettering in three sports at Minneapolis Central High School. At the university he played both the " new" game of football and basketball . He was a member of the Delta Kappa Epsilon (DKE) fraternity at the University of Minnesota, along with his two brothers, William Clark(Law) and Frank(Accounting). They were known on campus as the rowdy "Brooks Boys" for their part in fraternity antics. "Charlie" was a member of the Inter-fraternity Council and Rush Chairman of his fraternity; his yearbook photo was accompanied by reference to his good looks, favor among the coeds and signature curly blonde locks.
Charlie Brooks collected friends. He maintained many of his school and college friendships lifelong."
He married his high school and college sweetheart, Florence Wright in 1908. They had four children, Wright William, Eluzabeth Idell, Dorothy, and Charles Noyes, Junior.
After retirement, the couple moved from their longtime Lowry Hill home to a small one story renovated historic railroad foreman property on the shores of Lake Minnetonka in Wayzata, Minnesota.
Charles died in 1973, predeceasing Florence."
Biography by D. Montgomery, in "Biographies of the Brooks Family of Minnesota" (2009).
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