Mary Ann Phillips

This relationship was on his father's side.

On his mother's, he could claim a common descent with the founder of Phillips Academy, Andover, and with Window Phillips.

His mother, Mary Ann Phillips, has been defined as gifted with a genius for religion.

The simple fact that four of her six sons entered the ministry of the Protestant Episcopal Church speaks volubly for her influence.

William Gray Brooks, the father of this family, was a substantial Boston merchant of strong physique, integrity, and will.

These, in a manner, were the advantages of an aristocracy.

To hold them in their just weight there were the compensating democratic advantages of training in the public schools.

Here the boy learned to think of his city as the impartial mother of all, and rubbed his wits and shoulders against those of other boys of all degrees.

This relationship was on his father's side.

On his mother's, he could claim a common descent with the founder of Phillips Academy Andover and with Wendell Phillips.

His mother, Mary Anne Phillips, has been defined as gifted with a genius for religion.

The simple fact that four of her six sons entered the ministry of the Protestant Episcopal Church speaks volubly for her influence.

William Gray Brooks, the father of this family, was a substantial Boston merchant of strong physique, integrity, and will.

These, in a manner, were the advantages of an aristocracy.

To hold them in their just weight, there were the compensating democratic advantages of training in the public schools.

Here the boy learned to think of his city as the impartial mother of all and rubbed his wits and shoulders against those of other boys of all degrees.