. Universities and their sons; history, influence and characteristics of American universities, with biographical sketches and portraits of alumni and recipients of honorary degrees. educated at BaylorUniversity, Texas, Yale, Chicago University andSauveur School of Languages ; taught in the publicschools of Texas, now Professor of History and Eco-nomics at Baylor University. SAMUEL PALMER BROOKS, Educator, wasborn in Milledgeville, Georgia, December 4,1863, son of Samuel E. and Aurelia Elizabeth(Palmer) Brooks. An authentic record traces hismaternal ancestry through each receding generation to
. Universities and their sons; history, influence and characteristics of American universities, with biographical sketches and portraits of alumni and recipients of honorary degrees. educated at BaylorUniversity, Texas, Yale, Chicago University andSauveur School of Languages ; taught in the publicschools of Texas, now Professor of History and Eco-nomics at Baylor University. SAMUEL PALMER BROOKS, Educator, wasborn in Milledgeville, Georgia, December 4,1863, son of Samuel E. and Aurelia Elizabeth(Palmer) Brooks. An authentic record traces hismaternal ancestry through each receding generation to William Palmer, who was born in Nottingham-shire, England, in 1585, and sailing from London inJuly 162 I on board the Fortune (the next ship fol-lowing the Mayflower), arrived at Plymouth, Massa-chusetts, November 9, of that year. This emigrantwas accompanied by his son, also named William,and his wife soon afterward followed on the shipAnne. The first William Palmer died in Plymouth,and his will was proved March 5, 1637. The sub-ject of this sketch acquired his early education inthe public schools of Johnson county, Texas, afterthe completion of which he spent some time in. S. p. BROOKS farming, cattle herding, and teaching. Being fav-orably impressed with educational work he deter-mined to more fully prepare himself for thatprofession, entering for that purpose Baylor L^, Waco, Texas, from which he was graduatedin 1893, and joining the Senior class at Yale thesame year, took his Bachelors degree in was shortly afterward appointed a teacher atthe McKinney (Texas) College Institute, and in1895 was called to the Chair of History and Ec-onomics at Baylor University, which he still re-tains, having in the mean time taken a at the Chicago University, and studied at theSauveur School of Languages. In 1S90 ProfessorBrooks assisted as an Enumerator in taking the UNIVERSITIES AND THEIR SONS 345 eleventh Census. He is a member of the Philo-uiathes
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