Will County IL Archives Biographies.....Hinz, Christoph 1820 - 
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Author: Portrait & Bio Album, 1890

CHRISTOPH HINZ. Washington Township has become the home and the field of the 
successful labors of many German-born citizens, whose thrift and uprightness 
are recognized by those around them and afford an excellent example to the 
rising generation. One of these worthy German-American citizens is Christoph 
Hinz, whose home is on section 19. The farm comprises one hundred and sixty 
acres of well-tilled land which bears the improvements usually made by a man 
of enterprise and has been reclaimed by him from its wild and primitive 
condition. His first purchase was of eighty acres to which he subsequently 
added an adjoining tract of the same extent. Mr. Hinz is of excellent German 
ancestry, his immediate progenitors being John and Mary (Bielfeldt) Hinz, both 
of whom were born in Mecklenburg. There the mother died in the forty-fourth 
year of her age, leaving five sons and two daughters. In 1855 father and 
children crossed the briny deep, leaving Hamburg September 15, and landing in 
New York City seven weeks later, their passage having been made on the sailing 
ship "Rudolph." The family came directly West and settled in Cook County, 
Ill., but some years later the father and his son Charles removed to Kansas 
City, Mo., where the father breathed his last in 1882, at the age of seventy-
nine years. He was a worthy citizen and a consistent member of the Lutheran 
Church. The subject of this biographical notice was born May 18, 1820, and was 
well reared in habits of industry and firmness of moral principle, but without 
educational advantages. After the family came to America he continued to 
reside in Cook County for eight years, and in 1865 removed from Dunkard's 
Station to Washington Township, this county. Here he has been engaged in 
general farming, and has become known as a good farmer, a reliable citizen and 
a man of kindliness in domestic and social relations. The first marriage of 
Mr. Hinz took place in the land of his nativity, to Miss Elizabeth Shelt. To 
them were born two sons, Henry and John, before they accompanied the other 
members of the Hinz family to the United States. They had been in Chicago but 
eleven days when the wife died, at the early age of thirty-eight years. Her 
son Henry married Dora Ostermeyer and is engaged in trade at Beecher, this 
county; John married Mary Starter and is farming in Washington Township. The 
second marriage of Mr. Hinz took place in Cook County, his bride being Miss 
Magdalena Bade, who was born in Mecklenburg, Germany, April 12, 1832. Her 
parents were Jacob and Sophia (Hein) Bade. Her father was a laborer who died 
at the age of fifty-two years. The widowed mother with her six children 
crossed the Atlantic in 1857 and made her home in Northern Illinois. In her 
last days she came to live with her daughter, Mrs. Bade, dying at her home in 
1887, at the advanced age of eighty-four years and three months. She and her 
husband had belonged to the Lutheran Church. The present union of Mr. Hinz has 
resulted in the birth of three children: Sophia, Bertha and Herman. Sophia 
married William Meyer, and died leaving five children; Bertha became the wife 
of Charles Henget, a mechanic, whose home is in Arlington Heights, Cook 
County; Herman remains with his parents. Mr. and Mrs. Hinz belong to the 
Lutheran Church, and their children are also identified with that religious 
body. The elective franchise is exercised by Mr. Hinz in behalf of the 
candidates of the Republican party. Mr. Hinz is a fine specimen of physical 
manhood of the German type, and he possesses sterling qualities of character, 
being particularly noted for his honesty, and straightforward manner and 
dealing.

Additional Comments:
Portrait and Biographical Album of Will County, Illinois, Containing Full Page 
Portraits and Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative Citizens 
of the County; Chicago: Chapman Bros., 1890

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