Thank you to a number of folks for help with this puzzle: * Jim Nolan, for census data and a photograph link * Debbye Lansing, for the ancestral information * David Hoffman, for referring me to the NEHGS Register, 92:105, which provides the mother's name (Elizabeth Folsom), but which I haven't had time to get to yet. :-( For me the research ends here, since the Congressman does not descend from any of the Great Migration-era founders I'm working on, but your contributions have established a well-documented cache of information and URLs in the list archive for anyone in the future with the same question. It's just this sort of collaboration and sharing of resources that makes this list such a pleasure for me to be connected with. Chris Christopher Brooks, List Administrator: ============================================ BROOKS-NE-L (Brooks Families of New England) at RootsWeb.com ============================================