Background
Brinton, Jasper Yeates was born on October 5, 1878 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of John Hill (Doctor of Medicine and Sarah (Ward) B.
Brinton, Jasper Yeates was born on October 5, 1878 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of John Hill (Doctor of Medicine and Sarah (Ward) B.
Graduate Episcopal Academy, Philadelphia, 1894. Bachelor of Arts, University of Pennsylvania, 1898, Bachelor of Laws, 1901. Honorary Master of Arts, Washington College, 1915.
Admitted to Pennsylvania bar 1901, and began practice at Philadelphia Member firm Conlen, Brinton & Acker, 1901-1921. Assistant United States attorney, Eastern District of Pennsylvania, 1904-1912.
Sometime counsel Pennsylvania Department Labor and Industry.
Appointed solicitor United States Shipping Board, 1921. Justice Court of Appeals, Mixed Courts of Egypt, since 1921.
Major, judge advisory gens’. department, O.R.C., 1917, detailed to service in provost marshal general’s office, Washington, District of Columbia. Judge advisory and renting, requisition and claims officer, rank of lieutenant colonel, France and England, March 1918-August 1919.
Member American Military Mission to Armenia, 1919.
Lieutenant colonel, O.R.C. Certificate meritorious service. Legion of Honor (France).
Former manager Pennsylvania House of Refuge and president Pennsylvania Child Labor Association.
Member firm Conlen, Brinton & Acker, 1901-1921. Member American Bar Association, American Society International Law, International Law Association Kappa Sigma, Phi Beta Kappa (1933). Clubs: Coffee House (New York).
Married Alice B. McFadden. Married second, Geneva Febiger, of Palo Alto, California, September 10, 1927. Children: John, Pamela.