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Mother: Jane BRYANT |
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He was an Episcopalian. He was married twice, first to Elizabeth
Selden Garnett and then to Kate Corbin Pendleton. In 1849 and
1850, he served on the U. S. Coastal Survey. Affiliated with
the U.S. Naval Observatory from 1851 to 1853, he surveyed the
route between California and China, tested the use of deep sea
sounding apparatus, and made marine surveys of Japan. He
received the Gold Science Medal of Berlin from King William I of
Prussia.
Brooke resigned his navy commission in April, 1861 and entered
the Confederate Navy. He spent the Civil War in service around
Richmond, Virginia, where his inventive genius strengthened the
otherwise weak resources of the Confederacy. He received a
Confederate patent in 1861 for his submerged bow type of ship
construction, which was used in building the ironclad ram, the
VIRGINIA. In 1863, he was made a captain in charge of ordnance
and hydrography; later, he was promoted to the rank of
commander. He also was the first to place the firing charge of
the naval gun in front of the chamber, which lessened the
initial tension of gases. His invention was called the "Brooke"
gun. After the war ended, he became a professor at Virginia
Military Institute, where he taught from 1865 until his
retirement in 1899. He died in Virginia in 1904. Scharf,
HISTORY OF THE CONFEDERATE NAVY; Tyler, ENCYCLOPEDIA OF
VIRGINIA, II (From BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY OF THE CONFEDERACY,
p. 110-1)"
John Mercer Brooke, son of George Mercer and Lucy Thomas Brooke,
was born 18 Dec. 1846 at Fort Brooke, Fla. Col. George Mercer
Brooke, a native of Virginia, established and was the first
commanding officer of Ft. Brooke, Fla., the post being named in
his honor. Ft. Brooke, established in 1824 as an outpost for the
Seminole War, was originally a sixteen miles square including
the entire present site of Tampa and much of Hillsborough
County. Its bounds were later contracted to that part of Tampa
which is south of the present Whiting St. John M. Brooke was the
first child born of Anglo-Saxon parents in Tampa or the entire
Tampa Bay area. He was educated at Kenyon College, Ohio, and at
the U. S. Naval Academy, Class of 1847. Resigning in 1861 he was
commissioned in the Virginia State Navy and later in the
Confederate States Navy. While he was Chief of Bureau of
Ordinance and Hydrography the U. S. S. Merrimac was
reconstructed as the C. S. S. Virginia. Many authorities
attribute the basic design to him. He was professor at VMI from
1866 to 1899, and died 14 Dec.1906.
JOHN M. BROOKE AND THE C.S.S. VIRGINIA Commodore Marshall Parks,
an intimate friend of Chief Engineer Williamson, had many
opportunities to learn from him the history of the Merrimack and
has furnished the author the following testimonial both as to
the character of the model Porter took to Richmond and as to
Chief Engineer Williamson's statement of what took place at the
meeting of the board on the 25th of June 1861. "In reply to your
communication I will state that when I was appointed by the
Governor and Council of North Carolina as commissioner to
establish a Navy, I had to visit the Gosport Navy Yard
frequently to obtain supplies for the gunboats we had purchased
asnd were fitting out in Norfolk. I well recollect from one of
these visits able constructor John L. Porter exhibited to me a
model of an iron clad which was identical to the same plan which
was afterwards appled to the Merrimack. "I went to Raleigh and
informed the Governor and members of the legislature of the plan
and suggested that some iron clads be built for the defense of
the North Carolina sounds. I recollect that the plan so
impressed me and them that I was directed to write a "bill" to
authorise the Governor to have some vessels built on the plan
and it was passed immediately. The state of North Carolina soon
after this decided to join the Confereracy and I was directed to
Richmond to turn over all the steamers we had purchased and fit
out to the Confederate States Navy Department. I have had a
life-long acquaintenance with Major P. W. Williamson, who is a
senior engineer of the United States Navy, and during and since
the war he always expressed to me that the Merrimack was
converted to an iron clad after the plans of Mr. John L. Porter
and Mr. John M. Brooke." [Letter by Marshall Parks, Norfolk, Va.
Jan 9, 1892] (From "A Record of Events in Norfolk County,
Virginia, from April 19, 1861 to May 10, 1862, with a History of
the Soldiers and Sailors of Norfolk County, Norfolk City and
Portsmouth Who Served in the Confederate States Army or Navy" by
John W. H. Porter, Published in Portsmouth, Va., W. A. Fisk,
Printer, 1892) [Included in the PARKS SCRAPBOOK] Detailed
background on the origin and design of the C. S. S. VIRGINIA is
contained in JOHN M. BROOKE by G. M. Brooke. He mentions that
John M. Brooke applied for a patent on his design for ironclad
warships based upon the unique feature of his plan that had been
applied to the VIRGINIA; the submerged ends of the vesel,
extending beyond the forward and after ends of the shield.
Patent 100 was granted to Brooke by the Confederate Patent
Office on July 29, 1862. The original patent is in the
possession of G. M. Brooke."
Children:
Anna Maria BROOKE Birth: 12 DEC 1856 Death: 2 OCT 1885
unmarried.
Birth: 18 DEC 1826 in Tampa, Florida at Fort Brooke, Fla Death:
14 DEC 1906 in Lexington, Virginia
Burial: 1906 Stonewall Cemetery (Presbyterian), Lexington, VA
Commander CSN/professor at the Virginia Military Institute, at
Lexington, Va.
John Mercer BROOKE was educated at Milner Hall, a preparatory
school of Kenyon College, Ohio and at Burlington, New Jersey. He
entered the United States Navy on March 3 1841 at the age of 15,
reporting as a midshipman to Captain Farragut on the USS
Delaware. In 1847 he graduated with the first class from the
Naval academy at Annapolis.
He was assigned to duty at the Naval Observatory, Washington
from 1851-53, and with the US Coast Survey.
While there he invented the deep-sea sounding apparatus which
revolutionized communication between Europe and America, making
possible the laying of the first Atlantic cable.
He was with the Naval Pacific Surveying and Exploring Expedition
in the sloop of war "Vincennes" under Commodore John Rodgers,
having charge of the Astonomical Department, and later was in
command of a vessel making surveys of island in the Pacific and
a part of the coast of Japan.
The destruction of his vessel by a typhoon in 1859 while Brooke
was in Yeddo, caused him to remain in Yokohama until the
following year.
In recognition of his services the Japanese offered him a purse
of $60,000, which he declined. He did, however, accept their
invitation to accompany them to Washington when they decided to
send an embassy to the United States in 1860.
He resigned from the Navy on the succession of Virginia in
April, 1861, and entered the Confederate service.
He was appointed Chief of the Bureau of Ordnance and Hydrography
under the Secretary of the Navy, Stephen R. MALLORY.
While in the Navy he invented the Brooke gun, discovered the
utility of the air space in cannon, designed plans for an
iron-clad vessel with submerged ends, which were used in
reconstruting the "Virginia" into the "Merrimac", preparatory to
her memorable engagement in Hampton Roads with the Federal
"Monitor", and drew up directions for the cruise of the
"Shenandoah" involving the destruction of the whaling fleet.
In 1867 Brooke received from King William of Prussia the gold
medal of science awarded by the Berlin Academy of Science.
In 1866 he was appointed professor of physics and astronomy at
the Virginia Military Institute, Lexington, which chair he held
until 1899, when he was made professor emeritus.
He died in Lexington on December 14, 1906.
He had one daughter by Miss Garnett---Anna Maria BROOKE.
He married secondly, Mrs Kate Corbin PENDLETON, widow of
Lieut-Col. A.S. PENDLETON, and had two children by her. SOURCES:
Colonial Families of the United St ates, page 314.
_George BROOKE of Mantapike______________________+ | (1728 - 1782) _Richard BROOKE _____| | (1760 - 1816) | | |_________________________________________________ | _George Mercer BROOKE _| | (1780 - ....) | | | _John of Marlborough MERCER Esq. "the Immigrant"_+ | | | (1704 - 1768) m 1750 | |_Maria MERCER _______| | (1760 - ....) | | |_Ann ROY ________________________________________+ | (1730 - ....) m 1750 | |--John Mercer BROOKE C.S.A. | (1826 - 1906) | _________________________________________________ | | | _____________________| | | | | | |_________________________________________________ | | |_______________________| | | _________________________________________________ | | |_____________________| | |_________________________________________________
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Mother: Mary BROWNE |
_(RESEARCH QUERY) BROWNE _______________ | _William BROWNE ______________| | (1609 - 1663) | | |________________________________________ | _William BROWNE "the Immigrant"_| | (1625 - 1705) | | | ________________________________________ | | | | |_Priscilla SWAN ______________| | (1605 - ....) | | |________________________________________ | | |--Priscilla BROWNE | (1655 - 1733) | _(RESEARCH QUERY) BROWNE _______________ | | | _Henry BROWNE "the Immigrant"_| | | (1610 - 1662) | | | |________________________________________ | | |_Mary BROWNE ___________________| (1640 - 1682) | | _Francis Burgess FOWLER "the Immigrant"_ | | (1580 - 1642) m 1621 |_Anne FOWLER _________________| (1608 - 1668) | |_Alice WEPHAM __________________________ (1583 - ....) m 1621
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Mother: Mildred "Millie" POLLARD |
_Henry PENDLETON ________+ | (1683 - 1721) m 1701 _John PENDLETON Judge_| | (1719 - 1799) m 1744 | | |_Mary Bishop TAYLOR _____+ | (1688 - 1770) m 1701 _Edmund PENDLETON Sr.______| | (1744 - 1827) m 1764 | | | _(RESEARCH QUERY) JAMES _ | | | | |_Phoebe? JAMES _______| | (1720 - 1761) m 1744 | | |_________________________ | | |--Sarah PENDLETON | (1781 - 1815) | _Robert POLLARD _________+ | | (1679 - 1709) | _Joseph POLLARD ______| | | (1701 - 1791) m 1724 | | | |_________________________ | | |_Mildred "Millie" POLLARD _| (1747 - 1827) m 1764 | | _George HOOMES __________+ | | (1680 - 1733) |_Priscilla HOOMES ____| (1702 - 1794) m 1724 | |_________________________
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Mother: Jane LEWIS |
_Thomas READE __________________________+ | (1649 - 1720) m 1696 _Clement READ _______| | (1707 - 1763) m 1730| | |_Lucy Mildred GWYNN ____________________+ | (1670 - 1731) m 1696 _Jonathan READE _____| | (1752 - 1801) m 1776| | | _William HILL __________________________ | | | (1680 - ....) | |_Mary HILL __________| | (1711 - 1780) m 1730| | |_Ann____________________________________ | (1680 - ....) | |--Mildred Howell READE | (1779 - 1843) | _Charles Lilburne LEWIS Sr. of the Byrd_+ | | (1696 - 1779) m 1717 | _John LEWIS _________| | | (1720 - 1794) m 1759| | | |_Mary HOWELL ___________________________+ | | (1678 - 1779) m 1717 |_Jane LEWIS _________| (1760 - 1795) m 1776| | _Robert LEWIS of Belvoir________________+ | | (1704 - 1765) m 1725 |_Jane LEWIS _________| (1727 - 1770) m 1759| |_Jane MERIWETHER _______________________+ (1705 - 1745) m 1725
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Father: William THORNTON Sr. Mother: Jane CLACK |
_William THORNTON III________+ | (1649 - 1727) m 1688 _Francis THORNTON ___| | (1692 - 1737) | | |_Prudence WILLIS ____________+ | (1668 - 1720) m 1688 _William THORNTON Sr._| | (1717 - 1790) m 1738 | | | _John STERLING Jr.___________+ | | | (1673 - 1741) | |_Ann STERLING _______| | (1700 - 1741) | | |_Mary MARTIN ________________+ | (1687 - 1748) | |--Mary THORNTON | (1760 - ....) | _James CLACK "the Immigrant"_ | | (1655 - 1723) m 1693 | _James CLACK ________| | | (1693 - 1757) m 1720| | | |_Jane Rolfe BOLLING _________+ | | (1675 - 1714) m 1693 |_Jane CLACK __________| (1721 - 1792) m 1738 | | _John STERLING Jr.___________+ | | (1673 - 1741) |_Mary STERLING ______| (1699 - 1763) m 1720| |_Mary MARTIN ________________+ (1687 - 1748)
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