When Grace Evelyn Trowbridge was born on 7 November 1887, in Great Bend, Susquehanna, Pennsylvania, United States, her father, Frederick Goodrich Trowbridge, was 33 and her mother, Evelyn Eugenia "Eveline" Banker, was 29. She married Arthur Swift Brink on 23 July 1913, in Cortland, New York, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. She lived in Herkimer, New York, United States in 1920 and Marathon, Cortland, New York, United States in 1930. She died on 2 February 1967, in Stockton, San Joaquin, California, United States, at the age of 79, and was buried in Marathon, Cortland, New York, United States.