SEVENTH GENERATION I 3 I

§ 748- HARRIET HAZARD, 7 (Benjamin, 6; Thomas, 5; George, 4; Thomas, 3 ; Robert, 2 ; Thomas, I) ; she was born March 26, 1 8 12 ; she married Oc‘tober I 8, I 837, Rev. Charles T. Brooks. Hewas born in Salem, Massachusetts, June 20, I 8 13, being the second child ofTimothy and Mary King(Mason) Brooks. For the first fifteen years of his life he remained in his father’s house, attending meanwhile different elementary schools. In 1824, he attended the Latin Gram— mar—school in Salem, where he completed his preparation for college. In 1828, the youth of fifteen entered Harvard University. Among his classmates were Henry W. Bellows, George Ticknor Curtis, John S. Dwight, John Holmes, Estes Howe, Samuel Osgood, John Parkman, William Silsbee, Henry Wheat— land, and Augustus Story. Other college—mates were Charles Sumner, J. Lothrop Motley, and Oliver Wendell Holmes. Young Brooks seems to have engaged in the work of securing a higher education with great seriousness and ardor. The list of his studies and literary appointments is truly formidable for one of his slender strength. In 1832, he entered the Cambridge Divinity School, and graduated with honors in 1835. His first, last, and only pastoral charge was the Unitarian Church in Newport, he being called to this church in 1836; this call he accepted January I, 1837, and entered upon that minis— terial relation which, during the thirty—seven years of its continuance, so abounded in labors for truth, virtue, and piety, and proved such a blessing for the parish and the larger community.

Mr. Brooks wrote voluminously for the reviews and the periodical press of his day. He always entertained an ambition to write an English life of Martin Luther; and the thirty—six lectures on that great spiritual hero and his times, which he read to his people at Newport, were perhaps intended as material for this end. But it was as a poet, gifted by nature with a facile and graceful muse, that Mr. Brooks was best known to the world of American letters. Shining with a mild and genial ray, he became, from choice as well as disposition, the poet of the home-life of his friends, contributing the wealth of his sympathetic imagination and the lyric sweetness of his verse, to voice their joy, or lift their sorrow. His versatility and productiveness were amazing. Literary and theo— logical essays, reviews, historical monographs, odes and hymns for religious, patriotic, and festive occasions, drolleries, children’s books, translations from masterpieces of foreign literature, both in prose and verse, occasional verses and jeux d’erprz't, flowed in a steady stream from his busy pen.

Mr. Brooks died in June, 1883, a few days before the seventieth anniversary of his birth; and his pure and amiable spirit ascended to those mansions oflight to which he had so often pointed the hopes ofhis sorrowing friends.‘

CHILDREN

1325. CHARLES MASON BROOKS, born July 24, 1840; married, April 19, 1866, Eleanor Williamwn

Matllztire. 1326. HARRIET LYMAN BROOKS, born July 18, 184.1; married, Oct. 1, 1863, George Stu/em.

1Condensed from Memoir by Charles W. Wendt, in Poems by Charles T. Brooks. 1 3 27 .