Excerpt from The Medford Historical Register, 1912, Vol. 15
He was famous for his political sermons; the Devil Let Loose, on the French Revolution; an Election sermon; a Eulogy on George Washington, and others. His daughter, Miss Lucy Osgood, wrote a memoir Of Charlotte Ann Haven Brooks, and left many interesting letters written in a marked literary style.
The Rev. Converse Francis published several orations, a History Of Watertown, and Lives Of John Eliot and Sebastian Rale for the Library Of American Biography, 1795 - 1872.
The Rev. Charles Brooks wrote a History Of Med ford in 1855, one Of the first Of the Massachusetts town histories; Biographies Of Eminent Men and Women, two volumes; Letters Of a Foreign Correspondent; a Daily Monitor a Prayer Book; Prussian System Of Education; System Of Education in Holland; a book on Ornithology, and many sermons and lectures. He was a pioneer in the cause Of training teachers for their work; by his constant Writing and lecturing on the subject, caused the normal school system to be adopted in Massachusetts.
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