BROOKS.
BROOKS.
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
