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ness in all that concerned the actualities of existence. In his 

 earliest days at Johns Hopkins he and some others who made the 

 nucleus of the biological department took up their abode at 

 "Brightside," a boarding house on the shore of Lake Rowland a 

 few miles from the city. This led to his marriage, June 13, 1878, 

 to Amelia Katharine, daughter of Edward T. Schultz and Susan 

 Rebecca, daughter of David E. Martin. In after years he made 

 his home permanently at "Brightside" since the owner, Mrs. 

 Posey, bequeathed this most beautiful estate to her favorite niece, 

 Mrs. Brooks. 



So it came to pass that after years of struggle in a city home 

 where even his most ingenious lamp hot-water apparatus would 

 not make his favorite plants thrive in the window-case, Professor 

 Brooks gained space and light in the country and was even able 

 to have a diminutive greenhouse for the objects of his experiments 

 and of his horticultural relaxation. 



Happy as he was with his great trees and self-reared plants, it 

 is well to recall that there were shadows to the bright cloud which 

 many another would not have lived under so cheerfully. But he 

 bravely suppressed natural revolt at extra family burdens laid upon 

 him and by aid of his excellent business instincts was enabled to 

 remove debts, enlarge and perfect the property while carrying out 

 his ideals for his children. Recalling his own hard won university 

 education he sent his son, Charles Edward Brooks, to the Johns 

 Hopkins University, where he received the A.B. degree in 1900, 

 and the Ph.D. degree in mathematics, in 1904. His daughter, 

 Menetta W. Brooks, he also sent through Vassar College. 



His determination to give his children this higher education 

 ran counter to a year of needed rest and change in Europe, and he 

 worked on till it became too late. 



In his trips to the sea his family went also if anywise possible, 

 and when absent from them Professor Brooks' anxiety made 

 direct inroads upon his health. Through the long years of Mrs. 

 Brooks' invalidism, Professor Brooks had grievous burdens of 

 love to bear, and his devotion was most pathetic. She died in the 

 spring of 1901. 



