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 HBRRlNaSHAWS LIBRARY OF AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY. Brooks, Louis J., journalist, publisher, was born Aug. 24, 1853, in Lexington, Tenn. In 1873 he began his journalistic career. In 1875 he began to read law but did not complete his study. For many years he has been owner of the West Tennessee ^^^lig. Brooks, Maria, sculptor, artist, was bom about 1845 in England. Some of her subject pictures are Wayfarers; Down Piccadilly; Early Summer; Her Friend and Protector;

and

^Tiither.

Brooks, Mrs. Maria Gowen, author, poet, was born in 1795 in Massachusetts. Zophiel, or The Bride of Seven, is a poem whose incidents are taken from the story of Sara in the apocryphal book of Tobit. 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 thei

assembly in 1808-09.

New York

state

In 1815-17 he was a

representative from New York to the fourteenth congress. He was a member of the state constitutional convention of 1821; and was 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 published a series of classical textbooks. Complete History He was the author of of the Mexican War. He died Oct. 6, 1898, in Philadelphia, Pa. Brooks, Noah, author, was bom Oct. 24, 1830, in Castine, Maine. In 1861-65 he was war correspondent of the Sacramento Union, of California; was naval oificer at the port of San Francisco in 1865-66; and was on the editorial staff of the New York Tribune and the New York Times. He was a writer He was the of popular books for boys. 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; The Mediterranean Trip; The Story of Marco Polo; and a Life of General Henry Knox. He died Aug. 16, 1903, in Pasadena, Cal. Brooks, Peter Chardon, merchant, state senator, was born Jan. 6, 1767, in Yarmouth, Maine. He was some years president of the

A

New England

Insurance company.

He was

a member of both branches of the state legislature ; and was a delegate to the constitutional convention of 1820. He died Jan. 1, 1849, in Boston, Mass.

Brooks, Preston S., soldier, congressman, in August, 1819, in Edgefield disHe was a state representative in trict, S.C. 1844. In 1846 he raised a company of volunteers; and was made captain. In 1853-57

was born

441

he was a representative to the thirty-third and thirty-fourth congresses. In 1856 he

made a personal

assault upon Charles Sumner in the United States senate chamber, which caused him very much excitement throughout the country. He died Jan. 27, 1857, in Washington, D.C. Brooks, Phillips, clergyman, bishop, author, was born Dec. 13, 1835, in Boston, Mass. He was rector of Holy trinity church at Philadelphia, in 186269; and of the Boston Trinity church from 1869 until his consecration as bishop in 1891. For many years before his death he had been accounted the foremost preacher 111 America. He was the author of The InUuence 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. He died Jan. 23, 1893, in Boston, Mass. Brooks, Samuel Linus, merchant, capital;

ist,

public

official,

Burton, Ohio.

was born Nov.

1830, in in Illinois

8,

He was educated and

in Oregon,

he

removed

For thirty

whence

in 1850.

he

years

was a successful merchant;

but

has

now

retired from active business. He was in the internal revenue

department during

all

President Lincoln's administration. He is now an observer in the service of the weather bureau in connection with the department of agriculture at The Dalles, Ore. His father, Linus Brooks, moved to Illinois in 1838; to Oregon in 1850; was a prominent figure in the early building of Oregon and the town of Brooks, situated near the state capital of Oregon, bears his

name. Brooks, Sarah Warner, author, poet. She was the author of English Poetry and Poets; My Fire Opal; Poverty Knob; and The Search for Ceres. She died in 1906 in Med-

Mass. Brooks, Stratton D., educator, author, was born Sept. 10, 1869, in Everett, Mo. In 1890 he was principal of the high school at Danville, 111. Since 1906 he has been superintendent of schools at Boston, Mass. He is the author of CompositioU and Rhetoric; and a series of school readers. ford,