death_date death_place birth_place birth_date spouse known_for image article_title name occupation
16 august 1903 pasadena , california castine , maine 25 october 1830 caroline augusta fellows '' washington in lincoln 's time '' noah brooks.jpg noah brooks
 noah brooks journalist , author and editor
noah brooks

noah brooks -lrb- october 24 , 1830 -- august 16 , 1903 -rrb- was a journalist and editor who worked for newspapers in sacramento , san francisco , newark , and new york , and authored a major biography of abraham lincoln based on close personal observation .
born in castine , maine , he moved to dixon , illinois in 1856 , where he became involved in the first republican campaign for president -lrb- john frémont -rrb- .
during the campaign , he became friends with lincoln .
brooks moved to kansas in 1857 as a `` free state '' settler , but returned to illinois about a year later , then moved to california in 1859 .
after the death of his wife in 1862 , brooks moved to washington , d.c. to cover the lincoln administration for the sacramento `` daily union '' .
he was accepted into the lincoln household as an old friend .
unlike most people , brooks was able to maintain a close friendship with both the president and mrs. lincoln .
when brooks was detailed to cover the 1864 democratic convention in chicago , president lincoln asked brooks to also report back in detail by private letter .
brooks ' 258 washington dispatches for the sacramento `` daily union '' were published under the name `` castine . ''
in 1895 , brooks published his biography of lincoln , `` washington in lincoln 's time '' , based on his castine articles , as well as personal observations and interviews .
the book is now considered an indispensable source of information on the lincoln white house .
in 1901 , brooks published `` the story of the lewis and clark expedition '' based largely on the nicholas biddle history of the expedition .
brooks was assisted by the notes written in the margins of his manuscript by dr. elliott coues , who had edited the 1894 edition of biddle , and who had wide experience as an explorer of the american west .
