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Rh brevetted major-general for his services, 30 May, 1848. At the time of his death he was in command of the 8th military department. Fort Brooke, at the head of Tampa bay, Florida, received its name from him.

BROOKE, John R., soldier, b. in Pennsylvania. He enlisted in the 4th Pennsylvania infantry in April, 1861, became captain at the organization of the regiment, and on 7 Nov. was made colonel of the 53d Pennsylvania infantry. He was promoted brigadier-general of volunteers 12 May, 1864, and brevetted major-general of volunteers 1 Aug., 1864. In the regular service he takes rank from 28 July, 1866, when lie was appointed lieutenant- colonel of the 37th U. S. infantry, one of the new regiments created by congress at that time. He was transferred to the 3d infantry 15 March, 1869—the 37th infantry being consolidated with that corps and discontinued by act of congress. He was promoted colonel, 13th infantry, 20 March, 1879, and re-transferred to the 3d infantry 14 June, 1879. In the regular army he received brevets as colonel and brigadier-general for gallantry in several battles—Cold Harbor (27 June, 1863); Gettysburg (1-3 July, 1863) ; Spottsylyania Court-House; and Tolopotomy (May, 1864).

BROOKE, Walker, senator, b. in Virginia, 13 Dec, 1813; d. in Vicksburg, Miss., 19 Feb., 1869. He was graduated at the university of Virginia in 1835. studied law, emigrated to Kentucky, where he taught school two years, and then began to practise law in Lexington, Miss. He was elected a senator in congress in place of Henry S. Foote, who had resigned in order to accept the governorship, and served from 11 March, 1852, till 3 March, 1853. He was a member of the Mississippi seceding convention of 1861, elected a member of the provisional Confederate congress, in which he sat from 18 Feb., 1861, till 18 Feb., 1862, and was a candidate for the Confederate senate, but defeated by James Phelan.

BROOKS, Caroline Shawk, sculptor, b. in Cincinnati, Ohio, 28 April, 1840. Her father, Abel Shawk, was the inventor and builder of the first successful steam fire-engine. She studied drawing and painting, was graduated at the St. Louis normal school in 1862, married Samuel H. Brooks the same year, and first became known as an artist through an alto-relievo head of the " Dreaming lolanthe," executed in butter at the centennial exhibition. Subsequently she gave public exhibitions of modelling in the new material. In 1877 she secured a patent for improvements in the methods of producing lubricated moulds in plaster. In May, 1878, she executed in butter at Washington a life-size statue of the "Dreaming Iolanthe," which was successfully transported to Paris and exhibited at the world's fair of 1878. She subsequently opened a studio in New York, and executed portrait marbles of Emanuel Swedenborg (1883), James A. Garfield (1884), Thurlow Weed (1884), George Eliot (1886), and Thomas Carlyle (1886), and a portrait group of five figures, representing Mrs. Alicia Vanderbilt La Bau and her family (1886).

BROOKS, Charles, clergyman, b. in Medford, Mass., 30 Oct., 1795; d. 7 July, 1872. He was graduated at Harvard in 1816, and, after officiating as lay-reader in the Protestant Episcopal church, became pastor of the 3d Congregational church in Hingham, Mass., 17 Jan., 1821. In 1838 he was chosen professor of natural history in the university of New York, and in November, 1839, sailed for Europe, where he passed four years in the study of animals. Shortly after his return failing eye-sight compelled him to resign his professorship. He was an advocate of the Prussian educational system, and was the means of improving the New England public schools. He. also aided in the establishment of normal schools, a work completed by Horace Mann. He was a member of the peace society, and an advocate of the temperance reform and the African colonization scheme. He published "History of Medford" (1855); "The Christian in his Closet"; "Daily Monitor"; "Family Prayer-Book"; "Elements of Ornithology"; "Introduction to Ornithology"; ten volumes of biographies; a paper on the state sanitary survey; a report on the Middlesex co. tornado of "August, 1851; a treatise on "Peace, Labor, and Education in Europe"; and several pamphlets and sermons. He also contributed to periodical literature.

BROOKS, Charles Timothy, author, b. in Salem, Mass., 20 June, 1813; d. in Newport, R. I., 14 June, 1883. He was graduated at Harvard in 1832. After studying theology he began to preach in Nahant, Mass., in 1835, and, after officiating in various New England towns, became, 4 June, 1837, pastor of the Unitarian church in Newport, R. I., Dr. Channing preaching the ordination sermon. Mr. Brooks was noted for his translations from the German, among which were Schiller's "William Tell" (Providence, 1838); "Songs and Ballads from the German," forming one volume of George Ripley's "Specimens of Foreign Standard Literature" (Boston, 1842); Schiller's "Homage of the Arts" (Boston, 1847; 2d ed.. New York, 1870); "German Lyrics" (Boston, 1853); Goethe's "Faust" in the original metres (1856); "Life, Opinions, Actions, and Fate of Hieronymus Jobs, the Candidate," a satirical poem, popular in Germany (Philadelphia, 1863) ; Richter's "Titan " and "Hesperus" (1865); Schefer's "Layman's Breviary " (1867) and " World-Priest " (1873); Rückert's "Wisdom of the Brahmin" (Boston, 1882); and several children's books. Mr. Brooks also wrote "Aquidneck," a poem delivered at the hundredth anniversary of the Redwood library (Newport, 1848); "The Controversy touching the Old Stone Mill," opposing the theory that it was built by the Northmen (Newport, 1851); "Songs of Field and Flood," a volume of poems (Boston, 1854); "William EUery Channing, A Centennial Memory" (Boston, 1880); a volume of sermons, and numerous occasional verses. Among his unpublished translations are Schiller's "Mary Stuart" and "Joan of Arc" (1840): the "Autobiography of Klaus Harms"; Richter's "Selina"; Grillparzer's "Ahnfrau"; Immermann's "Der letzte Tulifant," and Hans Sachs's play, " The Unlike Children of Eve," first acted in 1553. In 1853, after a voyage to India for his health, Mr. Brooks wrote a narrative entitled "Eight Months on the Ocean and Eight Weeks in India," which is also still in manuscript. A collection of his poems, original and translated, with a memoir by Charles W. Wendte, was published in Boston after his death.

BROOKS, David, soldier, b. in 1756; d. in Dutchess co., N. Y., 30 Aug., 1838. He joined the army in 1776, as lieutenant in the Pennsylvania line, was captured at Fort Washington, 16 Nov., 1776, and remained a prisoner two years. When exchanged, he was made assistant clothier-general, in which responsible position he became a friend of Gen. Washington. After the war he settled in New York city, and later in Dutchess co., representing both places in the legislature, where he served six years. From May till July, 1797, he was a representative in congress, and afterward commissioner for making a treaty with the Seneca