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Brooks, Byron Alden
inventor, author, was born Dec. 12, 1845, in Theresa, N. Y. He has invented four different kinds of typewriters and has also made many important inventions in printing mechanics. He is the author of King Saul; Those Children and Their Teachers; Phil Vernon and his Schoolmaster; and Earth Revisited.
Brooks, Charles
educator, author, was born Oct. 30, 1795, in Medford, Mass.
He was a prominent Massachusetts educator; and the author of History of Medford; The Christian in his Closet; Daily Monitor; Family Prayer-Book; Elements of Ornithology; Introduction to Ornithology; and ten volumes of biography, He died July 7, 1872.
Brooks, Charles Timothy
clergyman, author, was born June 20, 1813, in Salem, Mass. He was a unitarian clergyman of Newport, R. I., in 1837-73.
His other work includes Songs of Field and Flood; The Simplicity of Christ; William Ellery Channing: a Centennial Memory; and Poems Original and Translated. He died June 14, 1883, in Newport, R. I.
Brooks, Chauncey
merchant, was born Jan. 12, 1794, in Burlington, Conn.
In 1856 he was made president of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad. Salt works in the Kanawha region and other forms of enterprise were promoted by him. He died May 18, 1880.
Brooks, David
soldier, jurist, congressman, was born in 1756. He entered the army in 1776 as a lieutenant in the Pennsylvania line; was captured at Fort Washington, and remained a prisoner for two years. He was a representative in congress from New York in 1797. He was subsequently first judge of Dutchess county for sixteen years. He died Aug. 30, 1838, in Dutchess county, N. Y.
Brooks, Edward
educator, author, was born Jan. 16, 1831, in Stony Point, N. Y. He was the principal of the Millersville Normal school in Pennsylvania from 1866 to 1886, and since then superintendent of the Philadelphia public schools. His writings are mainly, though not entirely, mathematical, and among them are The Normal Written Arithmetic; Philosophy of Arithmetic; Mental Science and Methods of Culture; The Story of the Iliad; and The Story of the Odyssey.
Brooks, Elbridge Gerry
clergyman, author, was born in 1816, in New Hampshire. He was a universalist clergyman of Philadelphia; and the author of Universalism a Practical Power; Our New Departure; and Universalism in Life and Doctrine. He died in 1878.
Brooks, Erastus
journalist, statesman, was born Jan. 31, 1815, in Portland, Maine. In 1835 he began in Washington, D. C., his career as correspondent, contributing news of the capital to the New York Express and other papers. In 1840 he joined with his brother in the editorial management of the Express, subsequently assuming the entire control. He was a member of the state senate.
Brooks, George M
lawyer, state senator, congressman, was born July 26, 1824, in Concord, Mass. He was a member of the Massachusetts legislature in 1858; of the state senate in 1859; of the committee chosen in 1859 to revise the statutes of Massachusetts; and was elected to the forty-first congress in 1869, to fill a vacancy.
Brooks, George W
jurist, was born in North Carolina. He resided at Elizabeth City whence he was, in 1866, appointed United States judge for the eastern district of North Carolina.
Brooks, Harry Sayer
journalist, was born Aug. 2, 1852, in Waverly, N. Y.
He was one of the three young men to found the Elmira Telegram. From the inception of the paper Mr. Brooks was its business and editorial manager, soon becoming the sole owner.
Brooks, James Gordon
journalist, author, was born Sept. 3, 1801, in Claverack, N. Y. In 1825 he established the Literary Gazette, which, after a few months, was united with the Athenæum.
He was connected with this paper about two years, and then with the Morning Courier for about the same period. In all these journals he published poems, which were much admired. He died Feb. 20, 1841, in Albany, N. Y.