From "HISTORY OF THE UPPER OHIO VALLEY,"  Vol. I, pages 232-233.
Brant & Fuller, 1890.


J. BRILLES

J. Brilles, one of the prominent merchant tailors of Wheeling, was 
born in Prussia, May 1, 1836.  He came to America in the fall of 
1854, and first settled temporarily at New York city.  Thence in the 
following year he removed to Canton, Ohio, and after a residence 
there of two years, removed to New Phildelphia, Ohio, where he 
remained one year. Going then to Cadiz, Ohio, he was a resident of 
that place until 1882, when he came to Wheeling. At this city he 
continued in the merchant tailoring and clothing trade, in which he 
had been engaged until 1886, since which date he has given all his 
attention to merchant tailoring, with much success, this 
establishment, which has one of the most desirable locations in the 
city, at the corner of Main and Twelfth streets, ranking among the 
most popular of Wheeling.  Mr. Brilles is a member of the Masonic and 
I.O.B.B. fraternities.  He was married in 1863, to Mary Aschhiem, of 
New York city, and eight children have been born to them, of whom 
four sons and two daughters survive.


(Linda Fluharty)