Died Early on Saturday

Many of City's Biggest j CONTRACTOR DIES

Buildings Are His

Monuments.

Henry Brinks, one of Quincy's   '`# c xre   

oldest building contractors, died 4 a   R " 4i

Saturday morning at 3:30 o'clock g F   "N %1 It hit home 1539 Spring street. He

was more than eighty two years old

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at the time of his death. Death

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re Cult d front cerebral hemorrhage   

Mr. Brinks was born in Lecher,   p_   ,,

Westphalen, Germany, Septmber   85,

ber 8, 1943 He came to Quincy      r

on 51   S, 1S6' are, this city ad   

been hl., home ever sins'   He ^an

y   _7 married to Gertrude Boesing on 0ctober 15, 1867,

Known as Builder.

Mr. Drinks was a carpenter and

Funeral woodworker by trade, For   "11 several years he was employed with

the Schenck Alter company as an   I

expert wood work,.   III then de   ..   

sided to go Into the building and

contracting business and formed   HENRY Brinks

a partnership with Fred Stork, the Sept. 8. 1848,   Aug. 22. 1925.

firm name bring Stork & Blinks.

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After g tell , t   pa   st hip dur- BELIEVE THEY

of e city*, the firm erected many the large building,, h7 r.

(Drink, retired from the business.

Hr purchased the. three lot, on the

northwest sorter of Sixteenth and

Spring street, or which he built hit

boom and his factory. He took into   

business n   two   Bernard   ,it

Henry,   , AT R. R, S `ON'

and the fit, m   am, b ores known as plenty Drinks & Con,.

The firm and mill work and erected

b   tracting, it   mill   work e   e.   d

Concepts In Springfield, MO

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Conception, Mo.,    and mod several Quinsy Boys Offered Ride

churches In Q   Including   Ft Met) Catholic Quincy church

s church, Quincy   '   in Chevrolet by Boy

ore chapel a rd the   Set

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e   Bandit.

of Quill,   e weed at to .erected

In, this firm. I{ Hundreds of substantial

home, In Quincy testily In the l , the workman- leg William Franklin, 15, of Camp ,hip of thin firm of building con- Point as the pen on who drove tractors.   

of Societies.

rut devout member atom, was further Mr. Drinks was, a d r   . ),led Friday night when John I

of SL Francis Catholic church art I I'd Earl Peters, Quincy boys, called

•   a A member of the church choir. He was also a member of the Quincy-

Is Council, Knights of Columbus,

St. Aloysius Orphan Society.   Si    Joseph's Men's society of St teens, had hopped an east-boll

Mary's III,   , St. Francis

Consign and I Third Order of St, Francis. lie wan au honorary member of the Coot Contractors and Builders

Association. Mr. Brinks is survived by his

widow. Mrs. R1 survived Brinks, and to the four children, Mrs. George Lilt,, met a 11, youth annoying the de-I

171.... rd Drinks. Miss Clara Brinks William Me>,,, the boys and Quincy, and fifteen grand children grandchildren. Theta train. Believe use, I've ridden notice of the funeral will be given The daughter, Miss Clara Where are you plus?" The Brinks, a trained nurse of South they were headed for yield, Ind., added her prolresfonm Rushville. but they had discerned

care to that or her solicitude as a daughter and the tenderness of oth-

r relatives during the last III

less.   

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