| 词条 | Elbert Adrain Brinckerhoff |
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|name = Elbert Adrain Brinckerhoff |image = Elbert A Brinckerhoff.jpg |imagesize = |smallimage = |caption = |order = Mayor of Englewood, New Jersey |term_start = 1899 |term_end = 1901 |governor = |predecessor = |successor = J.C. Anderson |birth_date = November 29, 1838 |birth_place = Jamaica, Queens, New York |death_date = {{Death date and age|1913|3|23|1838|11|29}} |death_place = |constituency = |party = |spouse = Emily A. Vermilye |children = |profession = |education = |religion = |signature = |footnotes = }}Elbert Adrain Brinckerhoff, Sr. (November 29, 1838 – March 23, 1913) was the Mayor of Englewood, New Jersey and the founder of Brinckerhoff, Turner and Company. He was president of Merchants' National Bank and president of Columbia Presbyterian Hospital in New York City and vice president of the American Bible Society.[1][1] BiographyHe was born on November 29, 1838, in Jamaica, Queens, New York. He was a son of Mary Adrain and John N. Brinckeroff, and grandson of mathematician Robert Adrain.[1][2][3] In 1854, at age 16, he moved to San Francisco and he took a job with Wells Fargo where he delivered the first pony express package from San Francisco to Sacramento. He later joined the San Francisco Committee of Vigilance. He returned to New York City in 1860.[1] He moved to Englewood, New Jersey in 1867 and married Emily A. Vermilye on April 22, 1869. His son, Elbert Adrain Brinckerhoff, Jr. (1874–1943), was born in 1874. The couple also had six daughters.[4][1] He was elected Mayor of Englewood, New Jersey in 1899 and recommended an increase in the police force from seven police officers to nine police officers. He also recommended the building of the city hall.[6][7] He died on March 23, 1913, in Englewood, New Jersey and was buried in Brookside Cemetery.[8] External links
References1. ^1 {{cite book|author=Philip Gengembre Hubert|title=The Merchants' National Bank of the City of New York|publisher= |year=1903|isbn= |quote=Elbert Adrain Brinckerhoff, vice-president, was born in Jamaica, NY, on November 29, 1838, and is the son of John N. Brinckerhoff, principal of Union Hall ... |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wK-EAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA174|accessdate=2011-10-21}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Brinckerhoff, Elbert Adrian}}2. ^Hall, Henry (ed.) [https://books.google.com/books?id=X5wMAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA111&dq=#v=onepage&q&f=false America's successful men of affairs: An encyclopedia of contemporaneous biography, Vol. I], p. 111 (1895) 3. ^{{cite encyclopedia |author= |coauthors= |editor= |encyclopedia=The National cyclopædia of American biography |title=Elbert Adrain Brinckerhoff |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3zYOAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA249#v=onepage&q&f=false |year=1916 |pages=249 |quote=Brinckerhoff, Elbert Adrain, merchant and banker, was born at Jamaica, L. I., Nov. 29, 1838, son of John N. and Mary (Adrain) Brinckerhoff. His maternal grandfather was Robert Adrain, LL.D.,a noted mathematician. His father was the principal of the Union Hall Academy at Jamaica, L. I., during 1837-65. Union Hall Academy furnished his preliminary education and he was about to enter college when he was offered the opportunity of a voyage around the world on a clipper ship, which he accepted. Upon reaching San Francisco he decided to stay in California, and entering a commercial house, became identified with the affairs of San Francisco. He was an active member of the second Vigilance Committee ... | accessdate=2011-11-12 }} 4. ^[https://books.google.com/books?id=Pi04AAAAMAAJ&pg=PA659#v=onepage&q&f=false Decennial record of the class of 1896, Yale College], p. 659 (1907) "Elbert Adrain Brinckerhoff, Jr., was born June 6th, 1874, at Englewood, NJ. He is the only son of Elbert Adrain Brinckerhoff and Emily A. Vermilye, ... 5. ^{{cite news |author= |coauthors= |title=Judith Hofmeister Is Bride of Nelson Brinckerhoff |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1982/02/14/style/judith-hofmeister-is-bride-of-nelson-brinckerhoff.html |quote=His late grandfather, Henry Morton Brinckerhoff of Englewood, N.J., was a founder of the consulting engineering firm of Parsons Brinckerhoff and was inventor of the third rail for electric railways. |newspaper=The New York Times |date=February 14, 1982 |accessdate=2011-10-20 }} 6. ^{{cite news |author= |coauthors= |title=Three Large Projects Nearing Completion for Occupancy Early This Fall |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1938/09/25/archives/englewood-gets-garden-suites-three-large-projects-nearing.html |quote= E. A. Brinckerhoff; Mayor of Englewood in 1899. ...|newspaper=The New York Times |date=September 25, 1938 |accessdate=2011-10-19 }} 7. ^{{cite book |author=Adaline Wheelock Sterling |coauthors= |title=The book of Englewood |year=1922 |publisher=Mayor of Englewood, New Jersey |page=189|quote=In his first message, Mayor Brinckerhoff recommended an increase in the police force from seven to nine and ... | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uGkWAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA189&dq=Brinckerhoff+englewood&hl=en&ei=CgehTrCeE4jY0QGw0oyhBQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CDEQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=Brinckerhoff%20englewood&f=false |isbn= }} 8. ^1 2 3 {{cite news |author= |coauthors= |title=Brinckerhoff, Bank President, Dies. Head of Merchants Bank. Rode the First Pony Express in This Country. Member of the Vigilance Committee In California Under Coleman in Pioneer Days |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1913/03/24/archives/pa-bri13kerhoff-bahkprebident-dies-jead-of-merchants-bank-rode-the.html |quote=Elbert Adrian Brinckerhoff, founder of the cotton firm of Brinckerhoff, ... |newspaper=The New York Times |date=March 24, 1913 |accessdate=2011-10-20 }} 6 : Mayors of Englewood, New Jersey|1838 births|1913 deaths|American Bible Society|Burials at Brookside Cemetery (Englewood, New Jersey)|19th-century American politicians |
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