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N. J., which position he filled for ten years. In
1894 he went to Castine, Me., where he devoted
himself to literary work. He spent the winter of
1894 -'95 in travelling in Europe and the East.
Among his published works are : " The Boy Emi-
grants " (1877) ; " The Fairport Nine '" (1880) ; 'Lost
in the Fog" (1884) ; " Our Base Ball Club " (1884);
- ' Abraham Lincoln " (1888) ; '• Tales of the Maine
Coast " (1894) ; " Abraham Lincoln and the Down- fall of American Slavery •* (1894) ; " Short Studies in American Party Politics (1895) : " How the Re- public is Governed " (1895) ; " Washington in Lin- coln's Time" (1896); "The Mediterranean Trip " (1896), a "Continuation of W. C. Bryant's Pop- ular History of the United States" (1896) : and " Gen. Henry Knox, Soldier " (1902). He died at Pasadena, California, Aug. 16, 1903.
BROOKS, Peter Chardon, underwriter, was born in North Yarmouth, Me., Jan. 6, 1767; son of Edward Brooks, a clergyman, native of Med- ford, Mass. In 1769 his parents removed to Medford, and in 1781 his father died. The son worked on the farm for a few years, and was then apprenticed to a merchant in Boston. In 1787 he engaged in the insurance business; became secretary, and later manager and owner of a broker's office, and in 1803 he retired from business, having accumulated a large fortune. He later accepted the position of president of the New England insurance company, which he held for some years. He also was president of the savings bank of Boston, and of the Massachu- setts hospital life insurance company, and treas- urer of the Washington monument society'. He at different times served in both branches of the state legislature, where he was influential in the suppression of lotteries, was a member of the first municipal council of Boston after its in- corporation as a city, and was a member of the state constitutional convention of 1830. Three of his daughters married distinguished men, Ed- ward Everett, Charles Francis Adams, and Rev. N. L. Frotbingham. He died Jan. 1, 1849.
BROOKS, Phillips, 6th bishop of Massachu- setts, and 158th in succession in the American episcopate, was born in Boston, Mass., Dec. 13, 1835, son of William Gray and Mary Ann (Phillips) Brooks. He was descended from Puritan clergy- men on both the paternal and maternal side ; from Rev. John Cotton on his father's side, and from the Phillips family, the founders of the two Phillips academies, on his mother's. His father was for forty years a hardware merchant in Boston. PhilUps was one of four brothers or- dained to the Episcopal ministry, and was sent first to the Adams school and afterwards to the Boston Latin school; entered Harvard and was ST'aduated with the class of 1855, after which he was for a time a tutor in the Boston Latin school.
Determining to enter the ministry he chose the
theological seminary at Alexandria, Va., as the
place of his preparation, went there in the fall
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of 1856, and was graduated in 1859. His first
preaching was done among the poor whites
in a small building at Sharon a few miles
from the seminary, where numbers flocked to
hear liim, as throngs did later in churches and
cathedrals. After his ordination as a deacon
in the chapel of the seminary, July 1, 1859,
he accepted the rectorship of the Church of
the Advent in Philadelphia, and was ordained
to the priesthood in his own church. May 27, 1860,
by Bishop Alonzo Potter. Two years later, he
succeeded Dr. Alex. H. Vinton as rector of the
church of the Holy Trinity, Philadelphia. Dr.
Vinton had been the rector of St. Paul's, Boston,
the church home of PhilUps Brooks in his younger
days, and bis influence and advice had done
much to mould the religious character of the boy.
During these years in Philadelphia — years of the
civil war — many of Mr. Brooks's discourses
awakened in the minds of his hearers the most
ardent patriotic feeling, for he did not hesitate to
touch upon the larger political questions of that
stormy time ; and in recognition of his brilUant
efforts in behalf of the cause of the Union he
was made a member of the Loyal Legion. His
sermon on Abraham Lincoln, preached in Phila-
delphia when the body of the murdered President
was lying in state in that city, illustrates very
aptly the nature of these discourses and the ful-
ness and balance of the character which blended
so fitly the citizen and the man of God. At the
close of the war Mr. Brooks was called upon to
take a prominent part in two public recognitions
of the re-establishment of peace; he made the
prayer at a great mass meeting held in front of
Independence hall, Philadelphia, and performed
the same office at the commemoration at Harvard
college. His utterance on this latter occasion
was so inspired and in.spiring that it evoked in
some of his audience a desire that he shoiild be
identified with Boston, and eventually resulted
