Westmoreland County PA Archives Biographies.....Brinker, Thomas H. May 11, 1818

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THOMAS H. BRINKER, M. D. Thorough and extensive preparation is one of the
essentials in any profession, and such a preparation was made by Dr. Thomas A.
Brinker before entering upon the practice of medicine which he successfully
pursued at Pleasant Unity until he retired from active professional life. He is
a son of Henry and Susanna (Thompson) Drinker and was born oh the homestead farm
in Unity township, Westmoreland county, Pa., May 11, 1818. His
great-grandfather, Jacob Brinker, emigrated from Switzerland to this country
where he located in Northampton county, Pa., and engaged in the flouring-mill
business. He furnished the Revolutionary army with flour for which he was never
paid. In 1792 he removed to near the site of Manor station, where he took up a
body of land, besides six hundred acres of land in another portion of the
township. He had five children: Henry and George who received the six hundred
acre tract between them; Jacob, who inherited the Manor land; Abraham, who
received a tract of his father’s Kentucky land; and Susan. Henry Brinker
(grandfather) came with his father from Switzerland, married Margaret Wise in
Huntingdon county and died in Unity township January 6, 1819, aged eighty-eight
years. His wife died in December of the same year, aged ninety-two years. They
were early settlers of this county, members of the Reformed church and repaired
to a neighboring fort several times on account of Indians. One of their sons was
Henry Brinker (father) who was born April 9, 1788, and died September 1, 1851,
from the effects of a cancer. He was a republican, a member of the Reformed
church and owned a farm of three hundred acres of land in Unity township. He was
a man of delicate health. He married Susanna Thompson who died October 19, 1879,
aged ninety-eight years. They had five children: Dr. Thomas H., Harriet, Statira
(dead); Hattie J. and Susan M.

   Dr. Brinker was reared on his father’s farm, was a school-mate of Gov. Geary
and went to school to Richard Geary, the Governor’s father. He read medicine
with Dr. Christopher Wolf in 1842, attended one course of lectures at Jefferson
Medical college in 1843, then resumed the further study of medicine with Dr.
Albert Marsh of this county, and April 13, 1844, accompanied the latter
physician to Pittsburg. In the fall of 1845 he returned to Jefferson Medical
college from which institution he was graduated March 24, 1846. Immediately
lifter graduation he located at Pleasant Unity where he was engaged in the
active and successful practice of his profession until April 1, 1852, when he
retired from active practice. He then went on the home-farm where he remained
until August, 1885, when he returned to Dleasant Unity and has resided ever
since at that place. He owns one hundred and fifty acres of the home-farm
besides valuable property at Pleasant Unity.

   On October 22, 1846. Dr. Brinker married Margaret Bear, daughter of Adam and
Catherine Bear, of Mt. Pleasant township. Dr. and Mrs. Brinker have three
children: Mary, Ada and Ira.

   Dr. Thomas H. Brinker is a republican and has served as school director. He
is a member and has repeatedly served as a deacon and elder of St. Luke’s
Reformed church. He is pleasant in manner, kind in disposition and remarkably
intelligent and entertaining in conversation.


Additional Comments:
Extracted from
Biographical and Historical Cyclopedia of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania
Compiled and Published by John M. Gresham & Co.
Samuel T. Wiley, Chief Assistant
1890


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