Carroll County IN Archives Biographies.....Hindman, William T. 1848 - 
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Author: John C. Odell (1916)

WILLIAM T. HINDMAN.

   There is no positive rule for achieving success, yet in the life of the
successful man there may be found lessons which may serve as examples to others.
The man who succeeds is the man who can foresee his opportunity, since the
essential conditions of life are always the same. The surroundings of
individuals differ but little and, when one man passes another on the highway of
life and reaches his goal before another, who perhaps started out before him, it
is because he has the capacity for using the advantages which fall to his lot.
Among the prominent citizens and successful business men of Carroll county,
Indiana, is William T. Hindman, a prosperous merchant and the president of the
Burlington State Bank. He is possessed of a keen discrimination, of sound
judgment and of an extraordinary degree of executive ability, which have
contributed to his large success in life.

   William T. Hindman is a native of Butler county, Ohio, born on June 19, 1848,
the son of John and Theodosia (Grant) Hindman, the former of whom was born and
reared in Butler county, and the latter in the same neighborhood. After their
marriage they came, with a small family, to Carroll county in 1865, and located
in Burlington township. Later they purchased a farm in Carrollton township,
where, for many years, they were engaged in farming. Subsequently, they moved to
Burlington, where John Hindman died in April, 1911. He was a member of the One
Hundred and Fifty-fourth Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, in the Civil War and
was a member of the Grand Army of the Republic His wife had died previously in
1887. They were the parents of three children, all of whom are living, Sarah,
the wife of F. W. Woodruff, of Burlington, Indiana; William T., the subject of
this sketch; and Martha, the widow of Sampson Cassady, of Logansport, Indiana.

   William T. Hindman was reared principally on a farm in Carrollton township
and there attended the rural schools in the winter, working on his father's farm
during the summer months. When Mr. Hindman had attained his majority, he went
into business for himself. On June 19, 1869, when he was twenty-one years old,
he was married to Margaret Smith, a daughter of the late James C. Smith. Mrs.
Hindman was born on June 19, 1851, in Burlington township and was the only child
born to her parents. She was educated in the common schools of Carroll county
and is an active worker in the Methodist church. Both her father and mother were
born in Muskingum county, Ohio. They came with their respective parents to
Indiana and located near Burlington. There they grew up in the same
neighborhood. They were married on December 2, 1849. The late James C. Smith was
a soldier in the Mexican War and was also a first lieutenant in the
Twenty-fourth Indiana Battery during the Civil War. He enlisted in 1862 and
served until the close of the war. He was captured at Macon, Georgia, in a
severe engagement and was held a prisoner for seven months. He was a member of
the Grand Army of the Republic and a member of the Methodist church. The father
of James C. Smith was William Smith, who served in the War of 1812, and the
father of William Smith, served in the War of the Revolution. James C. Smith
died on July 5, 1904, and his wife about five years later on February 2, 1909.

   After his marriage, William T. Hindman purchased a farm in Burlington
township and there lived for several years. During that period Mr. Hindman
bought live stock in connection with his farming. In 1885 he moved to
Burlington, Indiana, and established a general store. On August 4, 1914, when
the State Bank of Burlington was organized, Mr. Hindman was elected president.
The other officers are, H. L. Huddleson, cashier; Nellie Everman, assistant
cashier; and the directors, William T. Hindman, H. L. Huddleson, Daniel W.
Rodkey, H. L. Summers, Willis Polk, Monroe Medsker and Elias Patty.

   Mr. and Mrs. Hindman have been the parents of two sons, Ambrose C. and E. E.
The former is a graduate of the Burlington high school and attended the normal
school at Terre Haute, the literary course at Ann Arbor and is a graduate of the
law department of the University of Michigan. He is an attorney at Grand Rapids,
Michigan. E. E. Hindman is a graduate of the local high school and of the
literary department of Indiana University, as well as the law department of the
University of Michigan. He is an attorney at Jackson, Mississippi. Both sons are
married.

   Mr. and Mrs. William T. Hindman are members of the Methodist church and are
liberal supporters and regular attendants of this church. Mr. Hindman is a
member of Burlington Lodge No. in, Free and Accepted Masons. He is also a member
of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, having joined the lodge on January 17,
1870, and now the oldest member of the lodge. He is a past grand of this order
and a member of the grand lodge. He is also a member of Burlington lodge No.
179, Knights of Pythias, of which he is a past chancellor and a member of the
grand lodge. Mr. Hindman is a Republican in politics, but has never been active
in political affairs. Among his other financial interests he is president of the
Burlington Telephone Company, an important local institution.


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BIOGRAPHICAL SECTION
of

HISTORY OF CARROLL COUNTY INDIANA

ITS PEOPLE, INDUSTRIES AND INSTITUTIONS
BY
JOHN C ODELL
With Biographical Sketches of Representative Citizens and
Genealogical Records of Many of the Old Families

ILLUSTRATED
1916
B. F. BOWEN & COMPANY, Inc.
Indianapolis, Indiana


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