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HENRY H. BRINKERHOFF
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HENRY H. BRINKERHOFF, JR., M.D., member of the Board of Health
and one of the leading physicians of Jersey City, was born at Rocky Hill,
Somerset County, N. J., on the 33d of May, 1865. His ancestors were
among the earliest settlers of the State, coming originally from Holland.
"Joris Dircksen Brinckerhoef, the founder of the American branch of
this family, came from the
County of Drent, or
Drenthe, in the United
Provinces, and having lived
some time at Flushing, a
seaport in Zealand, arrived
in this country in 1638. He
settled on Staten Island,
and entered into a contract
with Cornelius Melyn, the
owner of the island, to reside there; but owing to the
murder of some neighboring
planters by the Indians, in
1641, he obtained a release
from the contract, August
15, 1641. Then he went to
Long Island and settled in
Brooklyn. He married Susannah Dubbels, who died
January 16, 1661. The
family settled in Bergen
County at a very early day,
and is one of the oldest and
best known in the eastern
part of New Jersey. In 1677
Hendrick Brinckerhoef, son
of Joris Dircksen Brinckerhoef, purchased land on
Bergen Hill, Jersey City,
and was the ancestor of the
family in Hudson and Bergen Counties, while another
son of the original emigrant,
Abraham Brinckerhoef, is the founder of the Long Island branch.
Dr. Brinkerhoff's parents were Henry H. Brinkerhoff and Elizabeth Vreeland, daughter of Michael Vreeland, granddaughter of Michael Vreeland, Sr., and a great-granddaughter of Johannis Vreeland, who was the son of Michael Vreeland, who was the son of Cornelius Vreeland, who was the son of Michael Jansen. The Vreeland family arrived in this country in 1636 from Holland. On his father's side Dr. Brinkerhoff is a grandson of John V. W. Brinkerhoff, a great-grandson of Hartman Brinkerhoff, a great-great-grandson of Hendrick Brinkerhoff, and a great-great-great-grandson of Hartman Brinkerhoff, whose father, Cornelius Brinckerhoff, was the son of Hendrick, the founder of the New Jersey branch of the family. |Dr. Brinkerhoff was educated in the public schools, graduating from the High School of Jersey City in 1883. Subsequently he spent half a dozen years in mercantile pursuits, and then, having decided upon medicine as his life work, entered Bellevue Hospital Medical College, and after graduating began a private practice which he has since continued, and in which he has achieved eminent success. He is one of the best known physicians in Jersey City. He is City Physician, member of the Jersey City Board of Health, Visiting Physician and Associate Surgeon of St. Francis Hospital, Treasurer of the Hudson County Medical Society, and prominently identified with the Home for the Homeless and the Hospital for Contagious Diseases in Jersey City. He enlisted as a private in Company A, Fourth Regiment, N. G. N. J., November 9, 1886, was promoted Corporal December 13, 1887, became Sergeant of his company April 3, 1888, and was commissioned Second Lieutenant of Company C January 15, 1894, Captain July 2, 1894, and Major of the Fourth Regiment in 1899, which latter position he still holds. He is a member of Woodland Lodge, Knights of Pythias, of the Holland Society of New York, of the Hudson County Medical Society, of the New Jersey State Medical Society, and of the American Medical Association, and is thoroughly identified with the affairs of the city and active and influential in promoting every worthy object. He is especially generous in the encouragement of those movements which have the welfare of the community at heart. Dr. Brinkerhoff was married on the 28th of April, 1897, to Ella Adelaide Hayes, of Newark, N. J.
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