Kentucky: A History of the State, Perrin, Battle, Kniffin, 8th ed., 1888, Jefferson Co. GEORGE BRINKWORTH, proprietor of the Custom House Restaurant, is a native of England, and was born near Sheffield, April 28, 1843. His parents, William and Martha Brinkworth, were also natives of England. William, with the subject of this sketch, came to this country in 1847, and located at Madison, Ind., where George Brinkworth was reared and received his early school training. When quite a boy he engaged to work on steamboats that plied the Ohio River, filling various positions till [sic] the commencement of the civil war, when, in 1866, he joined the Third Indiana Cavalry as a private, was slightly wounded in the engagement at White Oak Swamps, Virginia, and was in active service till [sic] the war closed. He came to Louisville in 1880, and began his present business. Mr. Brinkworth is commander of the Walter Whittaker Post, G.A.R., in this city. He was married in 1866 to Miss Mary A. Pepper, of Madison, Ind., and has one child, Libbie E. He is a member of the Knights of Pythias, and the Elk fraternity. Brinkworth Pepper = Madison-Jefferson-IN England http://www.rootsweb.com/~kygenweb/kybiog/jefferson/brinkworth.g.txt