Encyclopedic Dictionary of Bible and Theology

Brooks, Ralph D a Methodist Episcopal minister, was born at Springfield, Pennsylvania, April 11, 1825. He joined the Church at the age of thirteen; received license to exhort in 1848; and in 1850 was admitted into the East Genesee Conference, in the active ranks of which he served until his death, January 9, 1859. Mr. … Continue reading “Brooks, Ralph D”

Brooks, John, M.D a Universalist minister, was born in Worcester, Massachusetts, January 12, 1783. He had very few early literary advantages, but received a strict Calvinistic training. He began school-teaching at the age of sixteen; pursued an academical and a medical course; and commenced the practice of medicine at the age of twenty-three. In 1822 … Continue reading “Brooks, John, M.D”

Brooks, J.H an English Baptist minister, was born at Berkhampsfead, Hants County, about 1795, and united with the Church in March, 1815. He immediately began to study earnestly. His Sabbaths were spent in village preaching, and in due time he completed a full course of study in the academy at Newport- Pagnell. He was pastor … Continue reading “Brooks, J.H”

Brooks, James (2) an English Methodist preacher, was born in Kent in 1791.. He joined the Bible Christians when they began their labors in that locality. He entered their ministry in 1825, and travelled with great acceptance in thirteen circuits, being superintendent of districts, treasurer of the missionary society, and, in 1838, president of the … Continue reading “Brooks, James (2)”

Brooks, Frederick a Protestant Episcopal clergyman, entered the ministry about 1866, and became, in that year, rector of St. Paul’s Church, Des Moines, Iowa. The following year he became rector of St. Paul’s Church, Cleveland, O., in which pastorate he remained until his death, September 15, 1874, at the age of thirty-two years. See Prot. … Continue reading “Brooks, Frederick”

Brooks, Elbridge Gerry, D.D a Universalist minister, was born in Dover, N.H., July 29, 1816. He spent his boyhood in Portsmouth; acquired a good education, and began preaching at the age of nineteen. His fields of labor were Exeter. N.H.; Amesbury, Massachusetts, where he was ordained in 1837; East Cambridge in 1838; Lowell, for one … Continue reading “Brooks, Elbridge Gerry, D.D”

Brooks, Edward Flint a Presbyterian minister, was born at Halifax, Vermont, September 27, 1812. He graduated at Washington College, Pennsylvania, in 1839; and at Princeton Theological Seminary in 1842. He was ordained an evangelist by the Raritan Presbytery, October 20, 1842. He served as stated supply at French Creek, Iowa, in 1843; at Riverhead, L.I., … Continue reading “Brooks, Edward Flint”

Brooks, Edward a Congregational minister, was born at Medford, Massachusetts. He graduated at Harvard College in 1757; was ordained at North Yarmouth, Maine, July 4, 1764; was dismissed in March, 1769; and died at Medford in 1781. See Sprague, Annals of the Amer. Pulpit, 1:558. Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

Brooks, Charles a Congregational minister, was born in Townsend, Massachusetts, March 24, 1831. He was educated at Groton Academy, Yale College, and Yale Divinity School. He taught two years in Mississippi; was ordained over the Church in Byfield, Massachusetts, in 1858; labored there five years; Wilmington, six months; Unionville, Connecticut, in 1864, but was taken … Continue reading “Brooks, Charles”

Brooks, Boswell a Presbyterian minister, was born at Westmoreland, N.Y., August 20, 1805. He graduated at Union College in 1828, and at Yale Divinity School in 1833; was licensed by the Association of the Western District of New Haven County, and ordained evangelist by the Presbytery of Kaskaskia, September 15, 1833. He became supply pastor … Continue reading “Brooks, Boswell”