| 词条 | Robert Preston Brooks |
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Personal lifeBrooks graduated from the Georgia Military College at Milledgeville, Georgia in 1899. Robert immediately got a job in Cartersville, Georgia as a secretary to John W. Akin (President of the Iron Belt Railroad and Mining Company, the Cherokee Ochre and Barites Company and the Southern Plaster Company). Robert did all of his letter writing and kept books of the several corporations that John Akin managed, all for a salary of forty dollars per month. After six months in Cartersville, Robert worked for two years in Valdosta, Georgia for the Valdosta Foundry and Machine Company. Later, Brooks received a doctorate degree from the University of Wisconsin–Madison. In 1904, Brooks became one of the first recipients of the Rhodes Scholarship and was the first Rhodes Scholarship pupil sent from Georgia to the University of Oxford.[2] Brooks married Josephine Reid in 1908 [2] and they had three daughters; Josephine Reid Brooks (1909), Eugenia Preston Brooks (1916), Anne Moore Brooks (1919).[3] In 1910, Robert and Josephine Brooks were living in Athens, Clarke County, Georgia.[2] Robert Preston Brooks died in Athens, Georgia, on October 28, 1961, and was buried in the Oconee Hill Cemetery in Athens.[3] University of GeorgiaBrooks was the dean of the School of Commerce at the University of Georgia from 1920 to 1945. Before that, he was professor of history.[4] The Business Administration Building was renamed "Robert Preston Brooks Hall." In 1957, he authored the book Under Seven Flags. At the time of his death, he was a Dean Emeritus of the University of Georgia. Writings{{Wikisource author}}
See also{{portal|Biography|Georgia (U.S. state)}}References1. ^{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.co.in/books/about/Georgia_Studies_Selected_Writings.html?id=m9ziAAAAMAAJ&redir_esc=y|title=Georgia Studies, Selected Writings|last=Brooks|first=Robert Preston|date=1969|publisher=Books for Libraries Press|language=en}} {{Authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Brooks, Robert Preston}}2. ^1 2 {{cite web|title=Hearne Family Database |url=http://www.cragun.com/brian/hearne/genhearne2/pafg76.htm | accessdate=2010-08-10}} 3. ^1 {{cite web|title=Brooks family history |url=http://www.rcasey.net/brooks/brojosfd.htm | accessdate=2010-08-10}} 4. ^See author description for "R.P.B." in v. 31 of the 1922 Encyclopædia Britannica. 5. ^1 2 3 {{cite web|title=Google Books |url=http://www.google.com/search?tbs=bks:1&tbo=p&q=+inauthor:%22Robert+Preston+Brooks%22&source=gbs_metadata_r&cad=3 | accessdate=2010-08-10}} 7 : 1881 births|1961 deaths|People from Milledgeville, Georgia|University of Georgia faculty|University of Wisconsin–Madison alumni|American Rhodes Scholars|Writers from Georgia (U.S. state) |
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