Dr. Thomas H. Brinker and Margaret Bair

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Husband Dr. Thomas H. Brinker ^{1 2}

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            AKA: Dr. Thomas A. Brinker 1
           Born: 14 May 1818 - Unity Twp, Westmoreland Co, PA 1 2
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         Father: Henry Brinker (1788-1851) 1
         Mother: Susanna Thompson (Abt 1781-1879) 1

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       Marriage: 22 Oct 1846 3

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Wife Margaret Bair ²

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            AKA: Margaret Bear 3
           Born: 1825 2
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         Father: Adam Bair (      -      ) 2
         Mother: Catherine [Unk] (      -      ) 3

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Children

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1 F Mary Brinker ³

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2 F Ada Brinker ³

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3 M Ira Brinker ³

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         Spouse: Cora Bosworth (      -      ) 2

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4 F Rebecca Brinker ²

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         Spouse: William R. Horn (      -      ) 2 4

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General Notes: Husband - Dr. Thomas H. Brinker

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He 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 Westmoreland County, and April 13, 1844, ac­companied the latter physician to Pittsburgh. In the fall of 1845 he returned to Jefferson Medical college from which institution he was graduated March 21, 1846. Immediately after 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 Pleasant Unity and resided at that place. He owned one hundred and fifty acres of the home-farm besides valuable property at Pleasant Unity. He was a republican and served as school director. He was a member and repeatedly served as a deacon and elder of St. Luke's Reformed church. He was pleas­ant in manner, kind in disposition and remark­ably intelligent and entertaining in conversa­tion. [BHCWC, 429]

He acquired the advantages of a college education, and at the age of twenty-two years decided to prepare for the medical profession. Having studied preliminarily under the direction of Dr. Wolf, he pursued a regular course in Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, after which he continued his studies under the preceptorship of Dr. Marsh in West Newton. In the spring of 1845 he accompanied his preceptor to Pittsburgh as his student. The disastrous conflagration which swept through the city at that time caused Dr. Marsh to seek another field of operation, and the student returned to the seclusion of his large library at home. He subsequently pursued another course of medicine in Philadelphia, where he was graduated a Doctor of Medicine in 1846, and locating in Pleasant Unity practiced his profession there for six years. The death of his father necessitated the abandonment of this field and his return to the homestead for the purpose of superintending the management of the farm, and caring for his mother, and he remained there for a period of twenty years or until the death of his mother. For more than thirty-three years he resided in Pleasant Unity, and his unusual level of activity as his age advanced well into his eighties was considered phenomenally remarkable.

1 Samuel T. Wiley, Biographical and Historical Cyclopedia of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: John M. Gresham & Co., 1890.), Pg 429.

2 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. III (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 479.

3 Samuel T. Wiley, Biographical and Historical Cyclopedia of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: John M. Gresham & Co., 1890.), Pg 430.

4 Samuel T. Wiley, Biographical and Historical Cyclopedia of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: John M. Gresham & Co., 1890.), Pg 467.