Will County ILGenWeb Biographies..... Brinckerhoff, Martin B
************************************************
Copyright.  All rights reserved.

************************************************

File contributed for use by:
Dori Leekly & Margie Glenn

Author: History of Will County IL, 1878

Martin B. BRINCKERHOFF, retired farmer, Sec. 31; P. O. Lockport; was born in Albany, 
N. Y., July 11, 1806; he attended school to the age of 14, when his father sent him to 
the country to learn farming, receiving only his board; at the age of 20, he worked his 
own farm in Albany Co., and remained on it up to 1837; he came West in 1838 and settled 
on farm Sec. 31, and continued such up to 1869, when his son purchased the farm, with 
whom he has since resided.  Has been School Director and Road Commissioner. He married 
EIiza VAN_DUSER, of Madison Co., N. Y., in Montgomery Co., N. Y., Dec. 24, 1827; she was 
born in Madison Co., N. Y:, in 1808, and died in Homer Twp., Jan. 4, 1873; they had seven 
children, three living - Gertrude (now Mrs. MELLEN), born April 5, 1829; John, born 
May 15, 1836; Mary (now Mrs. HARRIS), Feb. 4, 1834 and four dead - John died Feb. 5, 1832; 
James, March 7, 1833; Martin, died at Nashville, Tenn., Feb. 8, 1863, from disease 
contracted in the army, and Emma Cecilia, in September 1870.


Additional Comments:
HISTORY OF WILL COUNTY, ILLINOIS; Chicago: Wm LeBaron Jr & Co, 186 Dearborn Street, 1878.

File at: http://will.illinoisgenweb.org/bios/brinckerhoffmb.txt