M. Sears Brooks

M. Sears Brooks (1830 – November 3, 1893) was an American poet and author.

Early life Marie Sears Brooks was born in 1830 in Springfield, Massachusetts. She was of English ancestry, descended from the Tuttles, of Hertfordshire, England, who settled in New Haven, Connecticut, in 1635, upon the tract of land now occupied by Yale College, part of which tract remained the family homestead for more than a century. She was of Revolutionary stock, her grandfather being one of Mad Anthony Wayne's picked men at the Battle of Stony Point.

Her family was remarkable for strong religious inclination and high regard for education and culture. Some of the most noted names in American letters descended from this stock. Among them are Presidents Timothy Dwight IV, Theodore Dwight Woolsey and Timothy Dwight V, of Yale, Henry Prescott, the historian, Samuel Griswold Goodrich aka Peter Parley, and many others.

Personal life After her marriage M. Sears Brooks moved to Missouri, in 1859, and subsequently to Madison, Indiana, in 1863.