Howard-Delaware County IN Archives Biographies.....Hinkle, Joseph 1845 - 
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Author: Jackson Morrow

JOSEPH HINKLE.

    The record of the subject of this review is that of an enterprising
gentleman who worthily upholds an honorable family name and whose life has been
very intimately associated with the material prosperity and moral advancement of
Liberty township, Howard county, Indiana, during the most progressive period of
its history, and he has always been found on the right side of questions looking
to the development of his community in any way, and while he has been prominent
in the industrial affairs of the county, he has at the same time won an enviable
reputation for honesty and wholesome living. He is one of the patriotic sons of
the North who served in saving the national government in the troublous sixties.

    Joseph Hinkle was born in Delaware county, Indiana, December 4, 1845, the
son of Ziba and Abigail (Barrett) Hinkle. The Hinkle family originally lived in
Ohio, who emigrated to Delaware county, Indiana, later coming to Howard county
in October, 1856. The father of the subject is still living in 1908, and is
known as a man of much sterling ability and honorable character.

    Joseph Hinkle was eleven years old when he came with his parents to Howard
county. He worked on the farm during the summer months and attended the country
schools during the rest of the year until he received a fairly good education.
He learned the plasterer's trade, which he has always followed in connection
with farming. He has also long operated a threshing machine and saw mill. In
whatever he has undertaken he has carried it through to success, having always
made a comfortable living and laid by a competency which will insure his old age
free from worry or inconvenience.

    Desiring to take part in the great struggle between the states, doing what
he could in defense of the flag, Mr. Hinkle enlisted in Company H, One Hundred
and Fifty-third Indiana Volunteer Infantry in the spring of 1865. His regiment
was in Kentucky most of the time, where it rendered good service. At the close
of the war our subject returned home. For his services he receives twelve
dollars per month.

   Mr. Hinkle was united in marriage on December 31. 1878, to Sarah I. Kilgore,
and to this union nine children were born, eight of them are still living at the
time of this writing. Mrs. Hinkle was called from her earthly labors in March,
1900, and our subject has never remarried.

    Fraternally Mr. Hinkle is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows,
the lodge at Greentown, and he has passed the chairs both in the subordinate and
the encampment, and has represented both in the Grand Lodge. He is a member of
the Grand Army of the Republic, Willets Post, No. 424, at Greentown. In politics
he is a Socialist, but was raised a Democrat.

    Mr. Hinkle is a man of few words, but he makes friends easily owing to his
upright life and kindness, and he is one of the most highly respected citizens
of Howard county, where he has spent the major portion of his life.


Additional Comments:
From:

HISTORY OF HOWARD COUNTY INDIANA
BY
JACKSON MORROW, B. A.
ILLUSTRATED
VOL. II
B. F. BOWEN & COMPANY
INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA

(circa 1909)

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