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Browsing named entities in a specific section of Historic leaves, volume 1, April, 1902 - January, 1903. Search the whole document.
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Elbridge Streeter Brooks
Biographical Sketch and Memorial Exercises.
Elbridge Streeter Brooks, the subject of this memorial, was born in Lowell April 14, 1846.
His father, Elbridge Gerry Brooks, was a prominent minister in the Universalist church, and one of the organizing spirits of that denomination.
Later he became the first general secretary of the Universalist general convention.
The elder Brooks, who had the reputation of being a fearless, upright, earnest, and eloquent preacher, received the degree of doctor of divinity from Tufts College.
The mother, Martha Fowle (Munroe) Brooks, was a cultivated and homemaking Christian gentlewoman, descended from the Munroes, who fought so bravely at Lexington, and whose farm lands and grist mills were near the site of General Putnam's earthworks on Prospect hill.
The Rev. Anson Titus, in an appreciative article, printed in the Somerville Journal, February 21, 1902, thus speaks of Mr. Brooks' ancestors:—
Mr. Brooks was of
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