Crawford Co., AR - Biographies - Robert S. Hynes

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SOURCE: History of Benton, Washington, Carroll, Madison, Crawford,
Franklin, and Sebastian Counties, Arkansas. Chicago: The Goodspeed 
Publishing Co., 1889.
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Robert S. Hynes is a son of William M. and Mary (Russell) Hynes, and 
was born in Canada in 1845. The father was born in Dublin in 1793, and 
received a classical education in England. In 1820 he immigrated to 
Canada. where he taught in the Lower Canada College at Montreal, and 
was superintendent of public schools for many years in Leeds County. 
He died in 1866. The mother was born at Old Johnston, N. Y., in 1812, 
and died in 1880. She was the mother [p.1159] of ten children, six of 
whom grew to maturity and four of whom are living. Robert S. was 
educated at Lower Canada College, and in 1864 came to the United 
States, passing the years until 1871 in various cities, and then 
locating in Bentonville, Ark. He then started the Advance, a 
successful paper, which he sold in 1877. He then bought the Reynolds 
Tobacco Factory. In 1879 he came to Van Buren, continuing the same 
business, but in 1884 sold his business and purchased the Crawford 
County Bank. In 1886 Hon. Jesse Turner and D. W. Moore joined him in 
making the bank a stock company with a capital of $50,000, and he was 
elected cashier. He was one of the original incorporators of the Van 
Buren Canning Company and the Van Buren Ice and Coal Company, is a 
stockholder in each and treasurer of the former. Mr. Hynes is an 
enterprising man, and has been closely identified with many of the 
chief movements which have made Van Buren what it is. He was one of 
the active spirits in securing the San Francisco Railroad to this 
town. In 1873 he married Kate Riley, daughter of Dr. Willshire Riley, 
a senator from Little Rock District and a man of prominence. She is 
also the granddaughter of Capt. James Riley, author and traveler. Her 
place of nativity was Toledo, Ohio, and she has three children: 
Willshire, Linzee and Robert S., Jr. Mr. Hynes owns a plantation of 
800 acres of bottom land on the Arkansas River, which is considered 
one of the best in the county. In politics he is a Democrat, and 
himself and wife belong to the Presbyterian Church, of which he has 
been a ruling elder eight years. 

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