Sidney Brooks (1799-1878)
Commission Merchant, of Davis, Brooks & Co., New York
He was described as, "an elegant Boston gentleman and a very sweet person, was more lenient than his wife, and would have floated with the tide. But she, never!" By 1842, still independent of his father's colossal fortune, he was worth $500,000 by his own account. His house at Newport, "Sebastopol," (built 1833 by Henry Augustus Middleton of Charleston, South Carolina) was afterwards purchased by the newspaperman Gordon Bennett and renamed "Stone Villa".
