Colonel Jehiel Brooks (April 8, 1797
Albans, Vermont - February 6, 1886) was a soldier, territorial governor, and plantation owner.
Finding Aid to the Brooks-Queen Family Collection - University Archives - CUA
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Life
He was First Lieutenant, in the First Regiment of Infantry with the Ohio Militia, in the War of 1812
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He came to the District of Columbia
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to secure political appointment, but with the exception of an appointment in the Red River Indian Agency in Louisiana
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during the administration of Andrew Jackson
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(1829-1837), Brooks had little luck. Instead, he assumed the role of the gentleman farmer on a tract of land adjacent to property that later became part of The Catholic University of America
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(CUA).
One of the largest holders of real estate in the District, Nicholas Louis Queen
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ran the Queen's Hotel near the Capitol until his death in 1850. The Brooks and Queens families united in 1828, when Jehiel Brooks and Ann Margaret Queen
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, the daughter of Nicholas Queen, married.
They built the Brooks Mansion.
The son, John Henry Brooks later sold his parents' real estate to early twentieth-century developers of the Brookland neighborhood.
See also
*''United States v. Brooks
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'' (1850)
References
External links
''The Brooks - Queen Family Collection (1773-1979)''
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1797 births
1886 deaths
American militiamen in the War of 1812
History of Washington, D.C.
American planters
American militia officers