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			HON. HENRY HARRISON AND MARY E. (SHERWOOD) HINDS

	Henry H. Hinds, one of the pioneers of Stanton, was born Oct. 9, 1840, near Montrose, Pa.
His father, Preserved Hinds, was a native of Connecticut.  He was a farmer and carpenter by 
occupation, a man of temperate and industrious habits, and one of the pioneers of that county. 
Henry H. received a common-school education.
	In 1861 he enlisted in the Fifty-seventh Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, and was made 
first sergeant of Company A.  In the spring of 1862 his regiment was attached to Gen. Kearney's
division and joined the Army of the Potomac.  Mr. Hinds took part in the battles of the
Peninsula campaign in 1862, and received a commission as second lieutenant in the fall of that 
same year.  He participated in the second battle of Bull Run and the battle of Chantilly, where 
Gen. Kearney was killed.  He was wounded at the battle of Fredericksburg, and soon after was 
commissioned to first lieutenant.  He was again severely wounded at Chancellorsville in the 
spring of 1863, and was wounded and taken prisoner at the battle of Gettysburg. He was confined 
in Libby Prison, and was one of the party that escaped with Col. Streight.  He was recaptured and
confined in a dark dungeon for fifteen days.  He was prisoner for a period of twenty months, 
during which time he was confined at Danville, Va., Macon, Ga., Charleston and Columbia, S. C., 
and Charlotte, N. C.  He was paroled at Goldsborough, N. C., March 1, 1865.  During his 
imprisonment he was places under fire of our own guns in the city of Charleston for a period of 
six weeks, by order of the rebel Secretary of War.  He was commissioned captain in 1864, and was 
mustered out of the service in July, 1865.  In the fall of the following year he emigrated to
Michigan and settled in Stanton, where he engaged in merchandising and lumbering.  He is at 
present largely engaged  in real estate and farming.  In his political affiliations Mr. Hinds is 
an active Republican, and has identified himself largely with town, county, and State politics.
	He has occupied many positions of trust.  He has been supervisor of his township, and 
chairman of the board of Stanton for several years.  He has always taken a deep interest in
educational matters, and is a member of the board of education of Stanton.  In 1876 he was 
appointed by Governor Bagley a member of the board of control of the State public school, and in 
1877 reappointed to the same position by Governor Crosswell, which position he still holds.  He  
is president of the Montcalm Country Agricultural Society, and a member of the board of directors
of the People's Mutual and the Home Mutual Insurance Companies of Ionia, Montcalm, and Clinton 
Counties.  In 1872 he was elected senator for the Twenty-seventh District.  He served two years, 
and was a member of the Ionia Commandery of Knights Templar, and has been for a number of years 
Master of the Stanton Star Lodge, No. 250, F. and A. M. 
	In December, 1861 Mr. Hinds was married to Miss Mary E. Sherwood, of his native country. 
They have two children,--Edna, born Sept. 17, 1875, and Alma, born Feb. 15, 1877.  Mr. Hinds is 
one of the early settlers of Stanton.  He has witnessed its transition from a wilderness into one
of the important villages in this part of the State, and in his own person typifies many of the 
agencies that have wrought these changes.  His name is connected with nearly all the initial 
events in Stanton's history, and he may with propriety be considered one of its founders.



This biography is taken from "HISTORY OF IONIA AND MONTCALM COUNTIES, MICHIGAN" 
by John S. Schenck. Philadelphia:  D. W. Ensign & Co., 1881.  Page 495.  Stanton Village.