Death
He died riding a streetcar in Boston, Massachusetts while on a return trip from visiting his hometown in Woolwich, Maine. He is buried in Yankton, South Dakota.
Read more about this topic: Wilmot Brookings
Famous quotes containing the word death:
“Men are fools that wish to die!
Is ‘t not fine to dance and sing
When the bells of death do ring?”
—Unknown. Hey Nonny No! (L. 2–4)
“I agree that we should work and prolong the functions of life as far as we can, and hope that Death may find me planting my cabbages, but indifferent to him and still more to the unfinished state of my garden.”
—Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)