HENRY BRINKMAN, Sec. 28; P. O. Hurriance Grove; owns 80 acres of land, valued at $40 per acres; born in Germany in 1829; came to America in 1857, and settled in this county; in 1865, he settled on his present farm. Married Sophia Kuhn, a native of Germany; they have nine children—Mary Lizzie, Fred. H., Clara, Edward, William, Annie M., Albert, Ellen Nettie and Fanny Eve.
Source: [Anonymous], History of Grant County, Wisconsin (Chicago: Western Historical Co., 1881), p. 886.