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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;ulilwitch, post: 8651668, member: 9773&quot;]After searching for a while today this is what I came up with as a possibility since my nephews family is from the Rochester NY area. </p><p>GENERAL HENRY BRINKER</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://mcnygenealogy.com/bios/brinker-henry.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />Major General Henry <b>Brinker</b> was born in Hanover, Prussia, March 17, 1831, and attended the common schools of his native province. He started from Europe for this country on February 10, 1851, and reached New York April 10, after a voyage of sixty days&#039; duration. He began working as a clerk in a grocery, saloon and meat market, where he was employed during twenty-one months at low wages. But he saved his earnings and on January 4, 1853, when he had accumulated one hundred dollars, began business on his own account. In 1855 he engaged in ship-building and in 1859 built the steamer Henry Brinker, which he afterwards sold to the United States government, and which did good service during the war. While he was a resident of New York he established business relations with Utica, Rome, Fairport, Pittsford, Rochester, Spencerport and Medina, aud carried on extensive transactions in produce. It was in New York city that he acquired his title of General, having enlisted in the Third Cavalry V. G. S. N. Y. in 1855 and advanced through all the minor grades. General Brinker is interested in ten railroads. He started the Germania Fire Insurance company of New York and has been a director of the Sun, St. Nicholas, and Amsterdam fire insurance companies. He also started the Rochester German Insurance company of this city and was for a long time one of its directors. He has been president, vice-president and director in over forty corporations. General Brinker moved to this city in 1871, and in 1877 had command of the militia at the Hornellsville strike. He has visited every country in the world excepting China and Australia and intends to see those lands also. In 1868 he made a visit to Emperor William of Prussia and was for six weeks a special officer on the staff of General Von Fogtzate, in which capacity he was present at several great inspections. General Brinker was married February 2, 1863, to Annie M. Bruns of New York.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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