When Benjamin Brooks was born on 24 September 1792, in Chester, Windsor, Vermont, United States, his father, David Brooks, was 49 and his mother, Ann Clarke, was 47. He married Nancy Olive Harris on 8 February 1815, in Chatham Township, Argenteuil, Quebec, Canada. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 6 daughters. He lived in Van Buren, Iowa, United States in 1840. He died on 1 June 1864, in Fairfield Township, Fayette, Iowa, United States, at the age of 71, and was buried in Arlington Cemetery, Arlington, Fayette, Iowa, United States.
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While the growth of the new nation was exponential, the United States didn’t have permanent location to house the Government. The First capital was temporary in New York City but by the second term of George Washington the Capital moved to Philadelphia for the following 10 years. Ultimately during the Presidency of John Adams, the Capital found a permanent home in the District of Columbia.
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English: usually a variant of Brook , with excrescent -s. The optional addition of -s, with no grammatical function, is usually post-medieval, but some examples of the same person's name occurring with and without -(e)s have been noted as early as the 14th century in South Lancashire. The -es in such cases probably has neither a plural nor a genitival function, and the name means ‘dweller at the brook’, not ‘dweller at the brooks’. A plural sense cannot be ruled out elsewhere, but a non-grammatical -(e)s must also be considered a strong possibility.
Americanized form of one or more similar (like-sounding) Jewish surnames.
Americanized form of German Brucks .
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