Brockett, Linus Pierpont, A.M., M.D., a son of Rev. Pierpont Brockett, for fifty years a Baptist minister in. New. England, was born in Canton, Conn., Oct. 16, 1820

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Brockett, Linus Pierpont, A.M., M.D., a son of Rev. Pierpont Brockett, for fifty years a Baptist minister in. New. England, was born in Canton, Conn., Oct. 16, 1820; fitted for college at Hill’s Academy, Essex, Conn., and Connecticut Literary Institution, Suffield, Conn.; entered Brown Uni- versity in 1837, but owing to ill health did not graduate ; attended medical lectures at New Haven, (Note some of this was garbled in my Kindle copy)………. and New York City ; ??? M.D. in 1843; practiced medicine in New England and in Georgetown: Ky. Since 1846 he has devoted most of his time to literary pursuits. He received the honorary degree of A.M. from Amherst College in 1857. He has published ‘‘Geographical History of New York,” 1847 ; ‘‘ Memoir of James Edward Meystre,” 1855 ; “The Pioneer Preacher,” 1857; several reports and essays on idiot edugation, 1855-57 ; “ History of Education,” 1859; ‘ History of the Civil War,” 1865; “Life of Abraham Lincoln,” 1865; “Our Great Captains,” 1865; ‘ Philanthropic Results of the War,” 1865; “Camp, Battle-Field, and Hospi- tal,’’ 1866 ; “‘ Woman’s Work in the Civil War,” 1867; ‘“‘Men of Our Day,” 1868, and a new and enlarged edition in 1872; ‘“‘ Woman, her Rights, Wrongs, Privileges, and Responsibilities,” 1869 ; “The Year of Battles, a History of the Franco- German War,” 1871, and German edition, 1872; “The Silk Industry in America,” 1876; “The Cross and the Crescent,’’ 1877, etc. He has also edited numerous religious works, and was, from 1856 to 1862, on the editorial staff of the New American Cyclopedia, and from 1861 to 1875, one of the editors of the Annual Cyclopeedia, and from 1872 to 1877, one of the editors of John- son’s Universal Cyclopedia. He has also been a frequent contributor to religious quarterlies, maga- zines, and. weekly periodicals. He is the author of “The Bogomils,’ the early Baptists of the East, who.form, as he believes, the missing link between the Baptists of the fifth and those of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, and has other religious works in the course of preparation. His residence is in Brooklyn, N. Y. From the Baptist Encyclopedia by William Cathcart photo from findagrave