| 词条 | Peter Chardon Brooks |
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| honorific_prefix = | name = Peter Chardon Brooks | honorific_suffix = | image = | caption = | title = | term = | predecessor = | successor = | party = | birth_name = | birth_date = {{Birth date|1767|1|6}} | birth_place = North Yarmouth, Maine | death_date = {{Death date and age|1849|1|1|1767|1|6}} | death_place = Boston, Massachusetts | resting_place = | monuments = | residence = | education = | alma_mater = | occupation = Insurance businessman, state senator | employer = New England Marine Insurance Company | net_worth = USD $1.3 million at the time of his death (approximately 1/1646th of US GNP)[1] | spouse = {{marriage|Ann Gorham |November 26, 1792|February 21, 1830|reason=her death}} | children = 13 | parents = Edward Brooks | relations = Nathaniel Gorham (father-in-law) Benjamin Gorham (brother-in-law) Edward Everett (son-in-law) Nathaniel Frothingham (son-in-law) Charles F. Adams (son-in-law) Peter Brooks Adams (grandson) Henry Adams (grandson) | awards = }}Peter Chardon Brooks (January 6, 1767 – January 1, 1849) was a wealthy Massachusetts merchant.[2][3] Early lifeBrooks born in North Yarmouth, Maine, on January 6, 1767. His parents were the Rev. Edward Brooks and Abigail Brown. In 1769, the family moved to Medford, Massachusetts, his father's native town, where Brooks boyhood was spent working on the family farm.[4] After his father's death, in 1781, he was apprenticed to a trade in Boston, walking to the city, a distance of seven miles, every day.[5] CareerIn 1789, he engaged in the business of marine insurance, and accumulated a large fortune. He kept with his own hand very accurate accounts, a rare thing in those days, and made it a rule never to borrow money, never to engage in speculation of any kind, and never to take more than the legal rate of interest. He retired from business in 1803, and, until 1806, devoted himself to the settlement of all the risks in which he was interested.[5] He then accepted the presidency of the New England Insurance Company, the first chartered company of the kind in the state, and filled the office for several years. In his retirement at Medford he took special pleasure in the cultivation of trees, planting many thousands of them about his farm. He was at different times a member of both branches of the legislature, of the first Boston City Council, and of the Massachusetts Constitutional Convention of 1820-1821.[5] While in the legislature, he took a prominent part in suppressing lotteries, which at that time were flourishing in the state. Mr. Brooks gave liberally, and without parade, to many benevolent objects, and, besides this, his private donations for many years exceeded his domestic expenses.[6] Personal lifeOn November 26, 1792, Brooks was married to Ann Gorham (1771–1830), the daughter of Nathaniel Gorham (1738–1796), the 14th President of the Continental Congress and the sister of Benjamin Gorham, a U.S. Representative from Massachusetts. They were the parents of 13 children, of which the following survived to adulthood:[7][8]
Brooks died January 1, 1849, in Boston, Massachusetts, bequeathing what was believed to be the largest estate in Boston, about two million dollars, to his seven surviving children.[9] He was originally buried at the Salem Street Burying Ground in Medford, Massachusetts, but was later relocated to a family plot in Oak Grove Cemetery, near the Brooks Estate in Medford.[7][10] DescendantsBrooks was the grandfather of historians Peter Chardon Brooks Adams and Henry Adams[11] and of Massachusetts governor and senator Leverett Saltonstall.[12][13] LegacyHe is considered to have been one of the 100 wealthiest Americans, having left an enormous fortune.[1][14] The town of Chardon, Ohio is named for him.[15] References
1. ^1 {{Citation | last=Klepper | first=Michael | last2=Gunther | first2=Michael | publication-date=1996 | title=The Wealthy 100: From Benjamin Franklin to Bill Gates—A Ranking of the Richest Americans, Past and Present | publisher=Carol Publishing Group | publication-place=Secaucus, New Jersey | page=xiii | isbn=978-0-8065-1800-8 | oclc=33818143}} 2. ^{{cite web|title=Peter Chardon Brooks, 1767-1849|url=https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2004674958/|website=loc.gov|publisher=Library of Congress|accessdate=28 June 2017}} 3. ^{{cite book|last1=Saltonstall|first1=Nora|title="Out Here at the Front": The World War I Letters of Nora Saltonstall|date=2004|publisher=UPNE|isbn=9781555535988|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vSnAsG73vscC&pg=PA251&lpg=PA251|accessdate=28 June 2017|language=en}} 4. ^{{cite book|last1=Lincoln (Mass.)|title=An Account of the Celebration by the Town of Lincoln, Masstts, April 23rd, 1904, of the 150th Anniversary of Its Incorporation, 1754-1904|date=1905|publisher=town|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CSgWAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA134&lpg=PA134&dq=%22Peter+Chardon+Brooks%22+(1767-1849)&source=bl&ots=A4IBqPuk15&sig=_L1jG_tRJH86dbkQee4d6_9Zaes&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjRvIKx2-DUAhUFbz4KHbAeAJI4ChDoAQgxMAQ#v=onepage&q=%22Peter%20Chardon%20Brooks%22%20(1767-1849)&f=false|accessdate=28 June 2017|language=en}} 5. ^1 2 {{cite book|last1=Morris|first1=Dee|title=Medford: A Brief History|date=2009|publisher=Arcadia Publishing|isbn=9781625843173|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KeN_CQAAQBAJ&pg=PT90&lpg=PT90|accessdate=28 June 2017|language=en}} 6. ^{{cite book|last1=Nasrallah|first1=Wahib|title=United States Entrepreneurs and the Companies They Built: An Index to Biographies in Collected Works|date=2003|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|isbn=9780313323324|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2QqYg7BHeGYC&pg=PA33&lpg=PA33|accessdate=28 June 2017|language=en}} 7. ^1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 {{cite book|last1=Whittier|first1=Charles Collyer|title=Genealogy of the Stimpson Family of Charlestown, Mass: and allied lines|date=1907|publisher=Press of D. Clapp & Son|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-DRVAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA52&lpg=PA52|accessdate=28 June 2017|language=en}} 8. ^{{cite book|last1=Browning|first1=Charles Henry|title=Americans of Royal Descent: Collection of Genealogies Showing the Lineal Descent from Kings of Some American Families ...|date=1911|publisher=Genealogical Publishing Com|isbn=9780806300542|page=361|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eyik0rO0HlsC&pg=PA361&lpg=PA361|accessdate=28 June 2017|language=en}} 9. ^1 {{cite book|last1=Massachusetts Historical Society|title=The Adams Papers {{!}} Diary of Charles Francis Adams|date=1968|publisher=The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press|location=Cambridge, M.A.|page=10|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=f8tdHrVgD2cC&pg=PA10&lpg=PA10|accessdate=28 June 2017|language=en}} 10. ^{{cite web|title=Brooks Estate Master Plan Medford-Brooks Estate Land Trust|url=http://www.brooksestate.org/pdfs/Master_Plan_Jan_2012/3_History_of_the_Brooks_Estate.pdf|website=brooksestate.org|accessdate=28 June 2017|date=1 September 2011}} 11. ^See Personal life and the Adams family tree at Charles Francis Adams Sr. 12. ^"Saltonstall-Brooks-Lewis family papers (1863-1982)>Biographical Sketches", Massachusetts Historical Society. Retrieved 2017-02-08. 13. ^{{cite book|last1=Harp|first1=Gillis J.|title=Brahmin Prophet: Phillips Brooks and the Path of Liberal Protestantism|date=2003|publisher=Rowman & Littlefield|isbn=9780847699612|page=14|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sLo4GLc8XLkC&pg=PA14&lpg=PA14|accessdate=28 June 2017|language=en}} 14. ^{{cite book|last1=Klepper|first1=Michael M.|last2=Gunther|first2=Robert|title=Peter Chardon Brooks (1767-1849): Wealthiest Man in New England|date=1996|publisher=Carol Pub. Group|location=Secaucus, N.J.|accessdate=28 June 2017}} 15. ^{{cite book|last=Overman|first=William Daniel|title=Ohio Town Names|url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015015361465;view=1up;seq=42|year=1958|publisher=Atlantic Press|location=Akron, OH|page=26}}
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