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Peter Chardon Brooks (January 6, 1767 – January 1, 1849) was a wealthy Massachusetts merchant.
Peter Chardon Brooks (1767-1849) passes away after amassing a fortune in marine insurance, leaving his son Gorham Brooks and his six siblings about $2 million ($72 million in 2022 dollars). The inheritance placed the family among the richest in Massachusetts.
Brooks nació en North Yarmouth, Maine, el 6 de enero de 1767. Sus padres fueron el reverendo Edward Brooks y Abigail Brown. En 1769, la familia se mudó a Medford, Massachusetts , la ciudad natal de su padre, donde Brooks pasó la infancia trabajando en la granja familiar.
Peter Chardon Brooks (January 6, 1767 – January 1, 1849) was a wealthy Massachusetts merchant. Brooks born in North Yarmouth, Maine, on January 6, 1767. His parents were the Rev. Edward Brooks and Abigail Brown.
Peter Chardon Brooks was born on January 11, 1767 at North Yarmouth, Maine, where his father, Rev. Edward Brooks (Harvard College, 1757), was minister of the First Parish. Peter's mother was Abigail Brown, daughter of the minister of Haverhill, Massachussets.
Peter Chardon Brooks (January 6, 1767 – January 1, 1849) was a wealthy Massachusetts merchant born in North Yarmouth, Maine. His father, the Rev. Edward Brooks, moved to Medford, Massachusetts, his native town, in 1769, and here the boyhood of young Brooks was passed in farm work.
The Medford Brooks’ estates—Peter Chardon Brooks’ 1859 edifice called the Point of Rocks and Shepherd Brooks’ 1880 home called the Manor at Acorn Hill—were called dazzling 19th-century showplaces, posi-tioned amid carefully cultivated landscapes with vistas that over-looked man-made ponds.
