Morgan-Madison County AlArchives Biographies.....Hinds, Joseph Monroe 1842 - 
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Author: Smith & De Land, publishers

  JOSEPH MONROE HINDS was born in Illinois January 6, 1842. His father, Simeon
Hinds, of Hopkinsville, Ky., was one of the most extensive farmers of his
county, and raised and traded largely in stock. His mother was from Knoxville,
Tenn.

  Joseph M. Hinds' early days were spent in herding cattle upon the broad
prairies of Illinois, working on the farm, and in attending country schools. At
the age of eighteen he commenced the study of law with Greathouse (a partner of
Stephen A. Douglas), but upon the beginning of the war abandoned his studies and
volunteered as a private in the Eighth Illinois Infantry. He was in all the
battles in which his regiment participated. After the capture of Vicksburg he
was promoted to a second lieutenancy, and in 1864 was transferred to the First
Alabama (Federal) Cavalry as acting regimental quartermaster. In this regiment
he accompanied Sherman in his famous "march to the sea," and was at the
surrender of Gen. Joe Johnston, in North Carolina. The regiment came to
Huntsville after that event, and was there mustered out in October, 1865. At the
close of the war Decatur was in ruins and had but two inhabitable
dwelling-houses left, but the Hinds brothers, pleased with the location and
prospects, determined to unite their interests with the South, and bought
property there, including the house in which had been headquarters for each army
in turn. Captain Hinds now lives in the house.

  Captain Hinds, associated with his brother, traded in stock and merchandise,
and, after securing some mail contracts, put a line of steamboats on the
Tennessee River. They also had stage lines running in different directions
throughout the country.

  In 1872 our subject was appointed Consul-General for the United States at Rio
Janeiro, Brazil, whence, in 1878, he returned to Decatur. In 1882 he was
appointed United States Marshal for the Northern District of Alabama, and
removed to Huntsville. While in this position many notable events occurred, and
he had for a time the custody of the notorious Frank James and Dick Liddle.

  When his term as Marshal had expired Captain Hinds again returned to Decatur,
where he is engaged in trying to improve his property in the city and his farm.
He was a delegate to the Republican Convention in Chicago which nominated
Garfield. In 1873 he was married, while in Rio Janeiro, to Miss Lucia Annita
Trillia, of Buenos Ayres, a lady of English and Italian blood. They have four
children, two boys and two girls.


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Northern Alabama: Historical and Biographical
Birmingham, Ala.: Smith and De Land
1888

PART IV.
MONOGRAPHS OF THE PRINCIPAL CITIES AND TOWNS IN NORTHERN AND CENTRAL ALABAMA,
TOGETHER WITH BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF MANY OF THEIR REPRESENTATIVE PEOPLE.


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