Biographical Sketch of Frederick William Brinkmann, Gasconade County, 
Missouri

>From "History of Franklin, Jefferson, Washington, Crawford and 
Gasconade Counties", Biographical Appendix, Goodspeed Publishing 
Company, 1888.

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Frederick William Brinkmann was born in the county and township where 
he now resides, in 1841, and is the only child born to Henry and Mary
Brinkmann, who came from Prussia to the United States.  They were 
married in one of the Eastern States, and after residing for some time
in Ohio and Indiana, came to Missouri and settled on a branch of Second
Creek, they being the second German family to locate there.  There the
father still resides, being eighty-six years of age.  His wife died 
when their son, Frederick W., was an infant, and he has lived with his
present wife for over forty years.  They are members of the Evangelical
Church, and he helped to build the first German Church in Boulware 
Township.  He was the second of eleven children, and the only one now
living.  Frederick W. Brinkmann was educated in the common schools, and
during the war served in Company E, Missouri State Militia.  In 1867 he
was united in marriage to Henrietta, daughter of Charles Blinne.  She
was a native of Lippe-Detmold, and came with her parents to the United
States when a child.  She died in April, 1876, leaving two children:
Frederick William and Henry August.  The same year Mr. Brinkmann marr-
ied Rebecca, daughter of Bernhardt Sulthaus.  She was born in Gasconade
County, and died November 26, 1887.  Their children are Mary, Hermann,
Louis and Benjamin.  Since his first marriage, Mr. Brinkmann has resid-
ed on his present farm of 280 acres.  He has a commodious stone resid-
ence and is a prosperous farmer.  He is a Republican in politics, and
his first presidential vote was cast for Lincoln.  He is a member of
the Methodist Church, as were both his wives.

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