Andrew Ten Brook

[2] Ten Brook was born in Elmira, N. Y. on Sept. 21, 1814 and attended what was then called the Hamilton Literary and Theological Institution, a Baptist college in Hamilton New York, graduating from its Collegiate Department in 1839 and from the Theological Department in 1841.

In October 1841 he was ordained pastor of the First Baptist Church of Detroit, where he served for three years, at the same time editing the newspaper of the Baptist denomination in Michigan, the Michigan Christian Herald.

In September 1844, he was appointed to the chair of Moral and Intellectual Philosophy in the University of Michigan.

The other members of the Faculty at this time were Professors Houghton, Williams, Whiting and Sager.

In 1851, he resigned his chair and soon after became the editor of the New York Baptist Register, published at Utica, N. Y.