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Brooks, Elbridge Streeter

author, was born April 14, 1846, in Lowell, Mass. He has been editor of the Brooklyn Daily Times, St. Nicholas Magazine, and Wide Awake. He is the author of Life Work of Elbridge Gerry Brooks; In No Man's Land; Historic Boys; In Leisler's Times; Chivalric Days; Storied Holidays; Historic Girls; Story of the American Indian; The Story of New York; Story of the American Sailor; Story of the United States; The True Story of Columbus; Heroic Happenings; A Son of Issachar; The True Story of George Washington; The Century Book for Young Americans; A Boy of the First Empire; Great Men's Sons; The Story of Miriam of Magdala; The True Story of Abraham Lincoln; The Story of the American Soldier; The Century Book of Famous Americans; Under the Tamaracks; and The Long Walls.

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