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A severe disability led this Hollander to banking

Hendrik Brink, born 1799. Abel Brink was Graafschap’s first banker. At the age of 10, he emigrated from the Netherlands to the United States with his parents, Hendrik Abel and Lammegien Brink, and a brother in 1848. They came from Rotterdam aboard the three-masted sailing vessel Dione and arrived in New York on June 2. […]