Brink, Wesley R.

Male Abt 1850 - Yes, date unknown


Personal Information    |    Sources    |    All    |    PDF

  • Name Brink, Wesley R. 
    Born Abt 1849–1850  New Jersey, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    • The approximate date of birth is calculated from information in a U.S. census enumeration. The place of birth comes from the same source. Further details are not known at this time.
    Gender Male 
    Died Yes, date unknown 
    Person ID I8108  Fiegenbaum
    Last Modified 24 Nov 2017 

    Family Gillespie, Elizabeth Eleanor,   b. Mar 1854,   d. Yes, date unknown 
    Married Y  [2, 3, 4
    • Details of the marriage are not known at this time. Wesley R. Brink was a publisher in Edwardsville, Illinois.
    Census (family) 1880  Edwardsville, Madison County, Illinois, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [5

    •      According to the 1880 U.S. enumeration, the household in Ward 2 consisted of Wesley R. Brink, a 30 year old publisher, his wife, Nellie Brink, age 26, keeping house, and their two daughters: Florence Brink (age 3) and Julia Brink (age 1). Also living in the home were Wesley's mother-in-law, Martha Gillespie, a 64 year old widow; and Louisa Bernius, a 20 year old servant.
           The previous household enumerated in this census consisted of Moses Sherman (age 42, a grain dealer), his wife, Isabella Sherman (age 38) and their daughter, Martha Sherman (age 12). Also living in the household was a servant, Mary Childres (age 16).
           The household enumerated in this census just before the Sherman's was the home of David Gillespie (age 51, a lawyer), his wife, Minna Gillespie (age 45) and their children: Julia Gillespie (age 23), Edwin Gillespie (age 18), Henry Gillespie (age 15), and Mary Gillespie (age 10). Also living in the home were two boarders: Carrie Houck (age 23) and Clay H. Lynch (age 32); and two servants: Mary Mansfield (age 18), and William Meek (age 26).
           What the 1880 census does not reveal is the close family ties woven through these three homes and foreshadowing extended family associations. Wesley Brink's mother-in-law, Martha A. (McGrew) (Hynes, or Hinds) Gillespie, the second wife of Matthew Gillespie, would have been the mother of Wesley's wife, Elizabeth Eleanor "Nellie" (Gillespie) Brink. Martha was also the mother of Isabella J. (Gillespie) Sherman and the step-mother of David Gillespie, who was the son of Matthew Gillespie and his first wife, Nancy Gordon.
           In 1882, Julia B. Gillespie, daughter of David and Minna (Barnsback) Gillespie, became the first wife Dr. Edward William Fiegenbaum. Clay Hardin Lynch, one of the boarders living in the Gillespie home in 1880, married one of Dr. Fiegenbaum's sisters, Martha Lizette Fiegenbaum, in 1884.
    Children 
     1. Brink, Florence,   b. Abt 1876–1877, Illinois, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Yes, date unknown
     2. Brink, Julia,   b. Abt 1878–1879, Illinois, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Yes, date unknown
    Last Modified 6 Aug 2018 
    Family ID F2617  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Sources 
    1. [S106] United States; Bureau of the Census, U.S. Census (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration), 1880 U.S. census, population schedule.
      NARA microfilm T9, roll 233, page 299A. Illinois, Madison County, Edwardsville, Ward 2, Supervisor’s District 7, Enumeration District 21, census page 17A, enumerated on 7 June 1880; Wesley R. Brink household, dwelling 164; family 190; lines 32-37. Access through Ancestry.com (library edition) in November 2017.
           In the household was: 32) Brink, Wesley R.; white; male; age 30; [head]; born in New Jersey; father born in New Jersey; mother born in New Jersey.
           By calculation from the information provided, Wesley R. Brink would have been born about 1849-1850. For more details of this enumeration, see the notes on the 1880 U.S. census for this person.

    2. [S104] Personal communication, from Thomas G. Allen to J. Mark Fiegenbaum on 3 November 2017 via email.
      "Elizabeth Eleanor (Nellie) Gillespie, dau. of Matthew and Martha,...married Wesley R. Brink, the publisher of History of Madison County, Illinois (1882)."

    3. [S203] History of Madison County, Illinois; Illustrated; With Biographical Sketches Of Many Prominent Men And Pioneers (Edwardsville, Illinois: W. R. Brink and Company, 1882), pages 362-363.
      Biographical sketch of Judge Matthew Gillespie. "...he [Matthew Gillespie] again married March 10th, 1839, Mrs. Martha Hynes, nee McGrew, a lady of Scotch parentage. Only three children of this marriage grew to man and womanhood;...Nellie, wife of W. R. Brink, both residents of Edwardsville,..."

    4. [S106] United States; Bureau of the Census, U.S. Census (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration), 1880 U.S. census, population schedule.
      NARA microfilm T9, roll 233, page 299A. Illinois, Madison County, Edwardsville, Ward 2, Supervisor’s District 7, Enumeration District 21, census page 17A, enumerated on 7 June 1880; Wesley R. Brink household, dwelling 164; family 190; lines 32-37. Access through Ancestry.com (library edition) in November 2017.
           In the household was: 32) Brink, Wesley R.; white; male; age 30; [head]; married; and, 33) Brink, Nellie; white; female; age 26; wife; married; keeping house.
           For more details of this enumeration, see the notes on the 1880 U.S. census for these individuals.

    5. [S106] United States; Bureau of the Census, U.S. Census (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration), 1880 U.S. census, population schedule.
      NARA microfilm T9, roll 233, page 299A. Illinois, Madison County, Edwardsville, Ward 2, Supervisor’s District 7, Enumeration District 21, census page 17A, enumerated on 7 June 1880; Wesley R. Brink household, dwelling 164; family 190; lines 32-37. Access through Ancestry.com (library edition) in November 2017.
           The household consisted of: 32) Brink, Wesley R.; white; male; age 30; [head]; married; publisher; born in New Jersey; father born in New Jersey; mother born in New Jersey. 33) Brink, Nellie; white; female; age 26; wife; married; keeping house; born in Illinois; father born in New York; mother born in Ohio. 34) Brink, Florence; white; female; age 3; daughter; single; born in Illinois; father born in New Jersey; mother born in Illinois. 35) Brink, Julia; white; female; age 1; daughter; single; born in Illinois; father born in New Jersey; mother born in Illinois. 36) Gillespie, Martha; white; female; age 64; mother-in-law; widow; no occupation; born in Ohio; father born in Virginia; mother born in Virginia. 37) Bernius, Louisa; white; female; age 20; servant; single; domestic servant; born in Illinois; father born in Germany; mother born in Germany.