BIO: Hinkle, James W. - Jefferson Co, Kentucky

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"HISTORY OF GREENE AND SULLIVAN COUNTIES, STATE OF INDIANA, FROM THE EARLIEST TIME TO 
THE PRESENT; TOGETHER WITH INTERESTING BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES, REMINISCENCES, NOTES, 
ETC." CHICAGO: GOODSPEED BROS. & CO., PUBLISHERS. 1884.

SULLIVAN CO., IN.
HAMILTON TWP.
PAGE 728

JAMES W. HINKLE.  Grandson of Wendell and Elizabeth Hinkle (Fox), and James and Jane 
Reid (Black), and son of Philip and Martha Hinkle (Reid), was born in Jefferson 
County, Ky., February 7, 1818, and was brought by his parents to Sullivan County, 
Ind., in 1819.  He has one brother and two sisters living--Jackson Hinkle, of 
Farmersburg;  Mrs. Butler, of Greene County; and Mrs. A. P. Forsyth, of Kansas.  
Philip Hinkle, with his family, settled in the southeast corner of this county, at the 
early date named, and shared in the toils, and hardships and privations of a pioneer 
life.  His only resource for bread, outside of his grater or pestle and mortar being 
to take his sack of corn upon his horse, and follow the trace-way to Shaker Town, 
about fifteen miles distant, to have it ground.  The youthful days of J. W. Hinkle 
were spent, as was usual in those times, about nine months of the year upon the farm, 
about three months in the country school.  Some of these schools, although lacking 
many of the appliances of the present day, were very superior for this primitive 
period, taught by such men as Hugh G. Ross and James F. Harvey.  After his majority, 
he worked upon the farm during the summer and taught school during the winter, until 
his twenty-sixth year, when he entered Asbury University, and remained two years, 
going through the most of the course, the mathematical entire.  From the fall of 1846, 
he taught most successfully and pleasantly in that grand old school district near 
Vincennes. During the time of his employment in this district, he formed the 
acquaintance of the one who has shared to the fullest extent all his joys and sorrows 
to the present day--Miss Helen Langton, daughter of Squire Samuel Langton.  After he
had taught a very full and very successful school in Carlisle, during the summer of 
1848, on the 12th of October, they were married, and came immediately to Sullivan.  
Here he taught three years; then engaged in merchandising, which he has followed the 
most of the time since, having been Clerk of the courts of Sullivan County from 1860 
to 1864.  This couple, as parents, have raised five children--Mrs. Dr. C. F. Briggs, 
Mrs. W. S. Maple and Mrs. G. W. Langworthy, Jr., and Carl R. and  Helen L. Hinkle.