Introduction

Biography

Justus was the son of Jus­tus Vin­ton and Ca­lis­ta Hol­man, mis­sion­ar­ies to the Kar­en peo­ple of Bur­ma.

He was sent to Ha­mil­ton, New York, in 1854 to con­tin­ue his stu­dies. In 1861, he com­plet­ed the course at Ma­di­son Uni­ver­si­ty (now Col­gate Uni­ver­si­ty).

He then mar­ried Julia A. Haswell, eld­est daught­er of Rev­er­end Has­well of the Bur­mese Mis­sion in Moul­mein (now Maw­lam­yine, My­an­mar). Jus­tus and Ju­lia had been play­mates in the mis­sion com­pound in Moul­mein.

When Brain­erd toured the out­ly­ing vill­ag­es with his ail­ing mo­ther lat­er in life, the dis­ci­ples re­joiced at see­ing the son of his fa­ther. He con­tin­ued his par­ents’ mis­sion­ary work un­til his death.