Brooks, Erastus – Brooks, Preston S
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, Horace
soldier, was born Aug. 14, 1814, in Boston, Mass. He served in the Seminole war of 1835-36, receiving the brevet of first lieutenant for gallantry and good conduct. For his services during the war he received two brevets-that of major and that of lieutenant-colonel. He was brevetted brigadier-general at the close of the war. From 1872 till 1877 he commanded the presidio at San Francisco, and on the latter date was retired from active service, being over sixty-two years of age. He died March 26, 1890, in Detroit, Mich.
Brooks, Horatio G
locomotive builder, was born Oct. 30, 1828, in Portsmouth, N. H. He began business in Dunkirk, N. Y., in 1869, under the name of The Brooks Locomotive works. From one locomotive a month, under the impulse of his strong mind and unceasing activity, the works grew until they were producing about two hundred locomotives a year. In 1883 the company bought the works back again at a fair price. Mr.
Brooks was three times mayor of Dunkirk and a highly respected man. The works are yet in operation, employing 1,200 men in busy times. He died April 20, 1887, in Dunkirk, N. Y.
Brooks, James
journalist, congressman, was born Nov. 10, 1810, in Portland, Maine. In 1835 he was elected to the legislature of Maine; and in 1836 established the New York Daily Express, of which he was the chief editor and proprietor. In 1847 he was elected a member of the New York legislature; from 1849 to 1853 was a representative in congress from the city of New York; and reelected to the thirty-eighth, thirty-ninth, fortieth, forty-first, forty-second and forty-third congresses. He died April 30, 1873, in Washington, D. C. a
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.
Brooks, James Wilton
lawyer, state legislator, was born April 19, 1854, in New York city. He met with success in his practice at the start, and attained a just popularity, professionally and socially. In 1882-83 he was elected to the state legislature.
Brooks, John William
soldier, lawyer, was born Oct. 27, 1854, in Rochester, N. Y. On July 15, 1863, he enlisted as a union soldier in company C, fifth regiment veteran reserve corps Indiana infantry, as a drummer, and was the youngest soldier of the war-less than nine years of age. In 1882 he graduated from the Iowa state university and two years later began the practice of law in Ellsworth, Kan. He was in the military band in the procession at the funeral of Abraham Lincoln.
Brooks, Joseph
clergyman, state senator, governor, was born Nov. 1, 1821, in Butler county, Ohio. When the civil war began, he became chaplain of the first Missouri artillery. He afterwards aided in raising the eleventh and thirtythird Missouri regiments, and was transferred to the latter as chaplain. He removed to Little Rock in the autumn of 1868, and was elected state senator in 1870. In 1872 he became governor. He was appointed postmaster at Little Rock in March, 1875, and held the office till his death. He died April 30, 1877, in Little Rock, Ark.
Brooks, Kendall
educator, clergyman, was born Sept. 3, 1821, in Roxbury, Mass. In 1841 he graduated from the Brown university, and in 1845 from the Newton Theological institution. n. During 1845-52 he was pastor of the Baptist church at Eastport, Maine; and for ten years was pastor in Fitchburg, Mass. In 1852-55 he was professor of mathematics in the Colby university; president of Kalamazoo college during 1868-87; and since 1888 has been professor of mathematics in the Alma college, Mich. For three years he was editor of the National Baptist of Philadelphia; and has contributed extensively to current literature.
Brooks, Lewis
manufacturer, philanthropist, was born in 1793, in New Milford, Conn. He was a manufacturer of woolen cloth, and later in the mercantile business. In 1837 he retired, and devoted his time chiefly to investing his money and looking after his real estate.
He made various charitable bequests, among which was $10,000 to the Rochester City hospital, a like sum to St. Mary's hospital, and $5,000 each to the industrial school and the Female Charitable society.
He also bequeathed $120,000 to the university of Virginia, $31,000 alone being expended on the work of collecting a cabinet. He died Aug. 9, 1877, in Rochester, N. Y.
Brooks, Mrs. Maria Gowen
author, was born in 1795, in Massachusetts. She is a poet whose fate it has been to be utterly neglected after being once extravagantly praised. Zophiel, or The Bride of Seven, her chief work, is a poem whose incidents are taken from the story of Sara in the apocryphal book of Tobit. It is a work of considerable power but extravagant sentiment. Idomen, or the Vale of Yumuri, is to some extent autobiographic. She died Nov. 11, 1845, in Cuba.
Brooks, Micah
educator, jurist, congressman, was born in 1775, in Cheshire, Conn. He was a justice of the peace in 1806, and for twenty years thereafter was a county judge. He was a member of the New York assembly in 1808 and 1809; and was a representative in congress from New York from 1815 to 1817. He was a member of the state constitutional convention of 1821; and a presidential elector in 1824. He died July 7, 1857, in Livingston county, N. Y. BROOKS, NATHAN COVINGTON, educator, author, was born Aug. 12, 1819, in Maryland. He is a prominent educator of Baltimore, who, besides publishing an excellent series of classical text-books, chief among which are editions of Ovid's Metamorphoses and Virgil's Æneid, is the author of A Complete History of the Mexican War.
Brooks, Noah
author, was born Oct. 30, 1830, in Castine, Maine. He is a New York writer of popular books for boys; and the author of The Boy Emigrants; The Fairport Nine; Our Baseball Club; Abraham Lincoln; The Boy Settlers; American Statesmen; Tales of the Maine Coast; Abraham Lincoln and the Downfall of American Slavery; How the Republic is Governed; Short Studies in American Party Politics; Washington in.
Lincoln's Time, a volume of gossipy recollections; The Mediterranean Trip; and The Story of Marco.
Brooks, Peter Chardon
merchant, state senator, was born Jan. 6, 1767, in Yarmouth, Maine. Engaging in the business of marine insurance, he acquired great wealth and was some years president of the New England Insurance company. He was a member of both branches of the state legislature; and a delegate to the constitutional convention in 1820. He died Jan. 1, 1849, in Boston, Mass.
Brooks, Phillips
clergyman, bishop, author, was born Dec. 13, 1835, in Boston, Mass. He was the sixth protestant episcopal bishop of Massachusetts. He was rector of Holy Trinity church at Philadelphia in 1862- 69; and of Trinity church, Boston, from 1869 until his consecration as bishop in 1891. He was a leader of broad church opinion, but had no hostility towards forms of thought opposed to his. For many years before his death he had been accounted the foremost preacher in America. He was the author of The Influence of Jesus; Lectures on Preaching; The Candle of the Lord and Other Sermons; The Light of the World and Other Sermons; Sermons in English Churches; Twenty Sermons; Sermons for the Principal Festivals and Fasts; Tolerance; A Century of Church Growth in Boston; Essays and Addresses; Letters of Travel; and The Oldest School in America. O Little Town of Bethlehem is a popular poem by him. He died Jan. 23, 1893, in Boston, Mass.
Brooks, Preston S
soldier, congressman, was born in August, 1819, in Edgefield district, S. C. He was a state representative in 1844; in 1846 raised a company of volunteers, was made captain, was elected to congress in 1853, and again in 1855. In 1856 he made a personal assault upon Charles Sumner in the United States senate chamber, which event caused much excitement throughout the country.
He died Jan. 27, 1857, in Washington, D. C.