Homer Brooke Detailed Timeline 1920-1929
[Link to Homer Brooke 1910-1919 data]
This data on Homer Brooke was compiled by Dick Roller and provided to this site by Bob Stahr.
| Jan. 1920: | Letter from Homer Brooke to George A. Ball included a multi-page handwritten set of notes and drawings relating to Mason and his (Brooke's) father's inventions. |
| Jan. 19, 1921: | Letterhead of Homer Brooke Glass Co., 1790 Broadway, New York, NY. Address scratched out and 546 Ocean Ave., New London, CT handwritten in. Letter to IRS about 1920 tax returns. |
| May 14, 1923: | Letter from Homer Brooke (227 Summit Ave., Mt. Vernon, NY) to H.B. Kent, president of Consolidated Fruit Jar Co. relating to Mason and his father's (William Brooke's) inventions. He stated that Mason was a tinsmith and pounded tin on roofs, and that William Brooke provided Mason with all the inventions for making a perfect screw top jar. He (Mason) said that he intended to pack oysters in to ship inland. |
| Jul. 1925: | Homer Brooke, of Mt. Vernon, NY, now has in his possession a 1 gallon Mason Improved jar in which is contained preserved pears which were packed prior to and exhibited at the Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia in 1876. [from National Glass Budget in Jul 1925 Glass Container, p. 26] |
| Nov. 17, 1925: | Letter from Homer Brooke (501 W. 30th St., Miami Beach, FL) to the Editor of the Newark Evening News regarding a glowing obituary notice about the of Benjamin Atha, a steel magnate. Brooke said that Atha's success was due to his efforts, and that Atha had cheated him out of his just rewards. |
| Dec. 2, 1925: | A shortened version of Brooke's letter appeared telling the story of Homer Brooke's attack on Mr. Atha. [Newark Evening News, Dec 2, 1925] |
| Jan. 13, 1926: | Plans were being made to exhibit the gallon jar of preserved pears (exhibit ed by Brooke at the Philadelphia Centennial Exhibition in 1876) at the Sesquicentennial International Exposition. [Jan. 13, 1926 letter to Homer Brooke at his Miami Beach address.] |
| Aug. 5, 1926: | Homer Brooke Glass Co. dissolved. |
| May 2, 1927: | Homer Brooke died at Richmond, VA, while enroute home from Miami, FL to Mt. Vernon, NY. [Resolution of Board of Directors of Winthrop Trust Co., New London, CT] |
| 1927+: | Note by Mrs. Homer Brooke that James T. White, New York, was publishing the biography of Homer Brooke in the National Cyclopedia of American Biography. |