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Source:
Memoirs
of
Allegheny County, Pennsylvania
Personal and Genealogical
with Portraits
- Vol. II -
Madison, Wis.
Northwestern Historical Association
1904
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WILLIAM M.
BRINKER, a prominent real estate
dealer of Wilkinsburg, is a native of
Clarion county, where he was born in 1843.
His education was acquired mainly in the
common schools and at Rimersburg academy.
In 1877 he came to Allegheny county, and for
about twenty years was engaged in the
wholesale grocery business on Liberty
avenue, in the city of Pittsburg, and at
Wilkinsburg. After retiring from the
grocery business he became interested in
real estate operations, and soon came to be
recognized as one of the leading real estate
men. He was the originator of
apartment buildings in Allegheny county, and
is the owner of the largest apartment
building there. It was built about
five years ago, is five stories high, has
ten stores and fifty-five suites of
apartments, and accommodates about 160
tenants. In his real estate business
he acts as broker in the sale and rental of
property, but in the work of building and
selling he invests his own capital and acts
solely for himself. In 1892 he built
fifty-three houses. He now owns
several valuable pieces of property, among
them Bessica plan of lots, in East
Wilkinsburg, and is the heaviest taxpayer in
the Wilkinsburg borough. Mr.
Brinker was married, in 1873, to Miss
Mary Scott, of Clearfield county, and
they have four children - one son and three
daughters. Two of the daughters are
married, the eldest being the wife of H.
U. Hart, a civil engineer in the employ
of the Westinghouse company, in Havre,
France, and the second daughter, the wife of
H. W. Kellar, a teller in the
Keystone bank, of Pittsburg. During
the Civil war Mr. Brinker served
three years as a member of Company C, 78th
Pennsylvania volunteer infantry. As an
evidence of his public spirit, he was the
originator of the Wilkinsburg electric light
and water companies, and was the first
president of the latter. He is a
member of the Masonic fraternity and of the
Presbyterian church. Politically, he
is a democrat, but he never held a public
office of any kind.
Source: Memoirs of Allegheny Co.,
Pennsylvania - Vol. II - Publ. Northwestern
Hist. Assn. - 1904 - Page 400 |
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