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Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler | 144 | 2 | Browse | Search |
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Olde Cambridge | 66 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Frank Preston Stearns, Cambridge Sketches | 56 | 0 | Browse | Search |
William Schouler, A history of Massachusetts in the Civil War: Volume 1 | 40 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Harvard Memorial Biographies | 34 | 4 | Browse | Search |
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 2 | 29 | 21 | Browse | Search |
Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Regimental Histories | 24 | 4 | Browse | Search |
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) | 24 | 6 | Browse | Search |
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 12. | 22 | 0 | Browse | Search |
The writings of John Greenleaf Whittier, Volume 5. (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier) | 22 | 0 | Browse | Search |
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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
Historic leaves, volume 1, April, 1902 - January, 1903, Somerville Directory (search)