Andrew Ten Brook Died Sunday

ANDREW TEN BROOK DIED SUNDAY

Was One of the First Professors in the University

WAS CONSUL AT MUNICH

An Account of His Life Long Energies for Religion and Education.

At 4:15 o'clock Sunday afternoon Rev. Andrew Ten Brook, D. D., of Ann Arbor, 85 years of age, passed away at the Seventh Day Adventist Mission on Trumbull ave., Detroit. His death had been expected, and his loss will be felt as a severe blow to his many friends.

He was born Sept. 21, 1814, in Elmira, N. Y..  As the name indicates, he was of Hollandish descent. At an early age he commenced his education at Madison University near Utica, N. Y., and he graduated from there in 1841. It was then the custom for the senior theological class to appoint one of its members to preach a sermon, and Mr. Ten Brook received the appointment. It was against his parents' wishes that he entered the ministry, but he was so determined that they finally consented. His first pastoral assignment was at the First Baptist church in Detroit.

In 1842, while at the First Baptist church, he was married to Miss Mary Gilbert, of Detroit. A year later he was engaged at the University of Michigan as professor of intellectual and moral science, and soon enlarged the course of teaching in that department. He commenced his duties in the university when the first class engaged in its senior studies. He remained in this position until 1851, when he resigned and went to Utica, N. Y., where he purchased a half interest in the Baptist Register and accepted the chief editorial responsibility. After two years the New York Recorder united with the Register and removed it to the metropolis.

When James Buchanan was elected president of the United States, Rev. Ten Brook was appointed consul at Munich, Germany. In 1860 Abraham Lincoln was elected president, and owing to Mr. Ten Brook's unblemished character, his studious and reliable habits, he was reappointed, holding the position until 1863, when he resigned, his health failing him.

During the period of the civil war, when he was consul, it was his and the ambassador's untiring efforts that restrained Germany from recognizing the confederacy.

Mr. Ten Brook was an accomplished linguist, being able to converse in four different languages. In 1875 he wrote and published a book,entitled "American State Universities and the University of Michigan." It was in 1877, when he was appointed librarian of the University of Michigan, which position he occupied until his health failed him again, and he resigned. From that time on, he wrote articles for magazines and papers, also for the State Pioneer Society, acting in the capacity of associate editor for that organization.

Mr. Ten Brook was made aware two days before his death that he would not live long. Intellectually, Mr. Ten Brook was most capable. He had a kindly disposition, and was charitable in the extreme. This accounts for his poor circumstances at his death. He had suffered from kidney trouble for the last 20 years.

Only one daughter survives Mr. Ten Brook - Mrs. Eugene Maudge, of Brooklyn, N. Y..  Mrs. Ten Brook died 20 years ago.