Andrew Ten Brook (1814–1899) was one of the first faculty members appointed at the

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and the author of the first history of the University, State Universities and the University of Michigan, published in 1875. He served as Professor of Moral and Intellectual Philosophy at the University from 1844 through 1852. He resigned that position but returned to the University again to serve as University Librarian from 1864 through 1877.

Early life

Ten Brook was born in Elmira, N. Y. on Sept. 21, 1814 and attended what was then called the

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, a

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college in

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New York, graduating from its Collegiate Department in 1839 and from the Theological Department in 1841. Hamilton Institution would be renamed Madison University in 1846 and

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in 1890. In October 1841 he was

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of the First Baptist

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, where he served for three years, at the same time editing the newspaper of the Baptist denomination in

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, the Michigan Christian Herald.

A faculty member at Michigan

In September 1844, he was appointed to the chair of Moral and Intellectual

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in the University of Michigan. The other members of the Faculty at this time were Professors Houghton, Williams, Whiting and Sager. In 1851, he resigned his chair and soon after became the editor of the New York Baptist Register, published at Utica, N. Y. In 1856, he was appointed U. S.

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. In 1864 he was made

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of the University, serving in that position until 1877.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Brook, Andrew Ten University of Michigan people 1814 births 1899 deaths People from Elmira, New York