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a county, and was appointed district-attorney. In 1859 lie was elected to the upper house and by the same legislature was appointed governor of Dakota territory. In 1861 he was elected to the council for two years and then for three succes- sive terms as a representative from Yankton county. In 1864 he was speaker of the house. In 1865 he was appointed superintendent of a United States military wagon road from Minne- sota to Montana. In 1866 he was nominated as a delegate to Congress by the anti-Johnson branch of the Republican party. He was chosen member of the council from Yankton county in 1867 for two years; elected president of the council in 1868, and he served as district-attorney for Yank- ton county in 1867 and 1868. In 1869 President Grant appointed him associate justice of the supreme court of Dakota, and he served until 1873. From 1883 to 1885 he was a member of the state constitutional convention. In 1871 he was the prominent organizer of the Dakota Southern Railroad — the first railroad to enter Dakota — and was either president, vice-president or solici- tor of the Dakota Southern, Sioux City & Pem- bina, and the Sioux City and Dakota railroads, afterward part of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul system during the ten following years. He conducted the Sioux Falls Leader from 1883 to 1885; was president of the Minnehaha Trust com- pany and a director of the Sioux Falls national bank, national realty company, and safe deposit company.

BROOKS, Arthur, clergyman, was born in Boston, Mass.. July 11, 1845, the fifth son of WilUam Gray and Mary Ann (Phillips) Brooks, and a brother of Phillips Brooks. He was edu- cated at the Boston Latin school and at Harvard college, where he was graduated in 1867. He pursued his theological course at Andover for one year, and at the divinity school at Philadelphia for two years when he was ordained deacon at Trinity church, Boston, in 1870. He accepted the rectorship of Trinity church, Williamsport, Pa., and was there advanced to the priesthood by Bishop Stevens. In 1872 he accepted a call to St. James parish, Chicago, 111., where he rebuilt the church destroyed in the great fire, and greatly advanced the growth of the parish. On Oct. 17, 1872, he was married to Elizabeth M. P. Willard of "Wilhamsport, Pa. In the summer of 1874 he accompanied his brother, Phillips, on a visit to Europe, and during the next winter delivered a lecture before the Anonymous club in Chicago, on stained glass, the result of his observations in the English cathedrals. In the spring of 1875 he accepted a call from the Church of the Incarna- tion in New York city. The obligations, amount- ing to $54,500 resting upon the church property, were liquidated, missions were instituted, and

countless charities aided, and in the spring of 1882, when the prosperity of the parish seemed assured, the church was destroyed by fire, involv- ing a loss of §75,000. In this emergency he ac- cepted the use of the Temple Emmanuel syna- gogue, proffered by Rabbi Gottheil. and there he celebrated the festival of Easter. The Church of the Incarnation was rapidly rebuilt, and a mag- nificent bronze bas-relief of Bishop Brooks was one of the works of art added to its adornments. In 1886, when the work of rebuilding was com- pleted, Mr. Brooks, accompanied by his wife, visited Italy, Greece, Arabia, Palestine, Asia Minor and Egypt, and he preached on Christmas day of that year in the American church in Rome. He also traversed the desert of Arabia on camel and horseback and visited Mt. Sinai. He returned to his parish in 1887. He took an active interest in the founding of Barnard college for women, lending to it Ms countenance and support. He was present at the church congresses from their institution, and his addresses were listened to with great interest. His last prominent public appearance was at the eighty-second anniversary meeting of the Virginia bible society, where he made the annual address. In 1891 he was selected to conduct a retreat for the clergy in the pre- lenten season at New Rochelle, N. Y. The death of Bishop Brooks in 1893 was a severe bereave- ment, and it fell upon him to prepare such biog- raphies of his brother as were needed for imme- diate publication. Meditating the accomplish- ment of a more considerable work, he labored upon it incessantly until his last illness, when it had neared its completion. A volume of his ser- mons, entitled, "The Life of Christ in the World," was published in 1893. The University of the city of New York conferred upon him the honorary degree of D.D. in 1891, and he was elected to the membership of the Victoria insti- tute. On June 26, 1895, he embarked on a voyage to England, hoping thereby to recuperate his health, but growing wor.se, he sailed for home on the same steamer, July 9, and died July 10, 1895. BROOKS, Caroline Shawk, sculptor, was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, April 28, 1840, daughter of Abel Shawk, inventor of the steam fire-engine. She inherited from her father ability to design. Her tastes grew with her years, and she gave much attention to drawing and painting. After graduating at the St. Louis Normal school in 1862 she married Samuel Brooks. At the Cen- tennial exhibition, Philadelphia, in 1876, she gained wide renown, by a bust in alto-relievo of the "Dreaming lolanthe." The material of which it was modelled resembled in color and apparent consistency, ordinary butter. From the same material she executed a life-size statue of the " Dreaming lolanthe " which was shipped to