Wilson, Douglas L., ed; Davis, Rodney O., ed. 'Register of Informants' in 'Herndon's Informants: Letters, Interviews, and Statements About Abraham Lincoln' . Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1998. [format: book], [genre: history]. Permission: University of Illinois Press
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Brooks was an early Illinois Democratic newspaper editor who began his career in Edwardsville in 1832 and was later associated with newspapers in eight other Illinois communities. (Franklin Scott, comp., Newspapers and Periodicals of Illinois, 1814-1879, Collections of the ISHL. No. 6., 1910; "Woodland Cemetery Records," Quincy, Ill.)