Joshua Loring Brooks (January 9, 1868 - January 26, 1949) was an American businessman and lithographic printer active in Boston and Springfield, Massachusetts. Brooks was born in Brookline, Massachusetts, the son of Boston banker, Lyman Beecher and his wife Maria Loring Brooks. He studied at Newton Center then at Boston University. He founded and ran the Brooks Banknote and Lithographing Company in Boston, but for unclear reason the firm failed. Then in 1898 he bicycled to Springfield, Massachusetts, where he relocated and refounded Brooks Banknote and Lithographing. The firm remained active until about 1931. In 1916, Brooks founded the Springfield-based Eastern States Agricultural and Industrial Exposition.



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