History of Castine, (Hancock County) Maine United States of America

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Noah Brooks, author, was born at Castine, Me., Oct. 30, 1830. He removed to Boston when he was twenty years old and obtained work on a newspaper. He remained in that city four years, going thence to Illinois and Kansas, and later to California. Here he aided Benjamin P. Avery in establishing the Appeal at Marysville, Yuba county. Subsequently he returned to the east, settling in Washington as a newspaper correspondent. In 1865, having received the appointment of naval officer of the port of San Francisco by President Lincoln, he returned to California, where he also assumed the editorial management of the Alta-California. In 1871 he removed to New York and became connected with the New York Tribune, changing to the Times in 1875. In 1884 he became managing editor of the Advertiser, published in Newark, N.J., which position he filled for ten years. In 1894 he went to Castine, Me., where he devoted himself to literary work, He spent the winter of 1894?'95 in travelling in Europe and the East. Among his published works are: "The Boy Emigrants" (1877); "The Fairport Nine" (1880); 'Lost in the Fog" (1884); "Our Base Ball Club" (1884); "Abraham Lincoln" (1888); "Tales of the Maine Coast" (1894); "Abraham Lincoln and the Downfall of American Slavery" (1894); "Short Studies in American Party Politics (1895); "How the Republic is Governed "(1895); "Washington in Lincoln's Time" (1896); "The Mediterranean Trip" (1896), a "Continuation of W. C. Bryant's Popular History of the United States" (1896); and "Gen. Henry Knox, Soldier" (1902). He died at Pasadena, California, Aug. 16, 1903.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor

History of Castine, (Hancock County) Maine

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