Bio of Hinckley, Charles E. (b.1850) Wabasha Co., MN
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Hinckley, Charles E., furniture dealer, Lake City, is a direct descendant,
through his maternal grandmother, of Gov. Bradford, famous in early New
England history. He was born June 1, 1850, in the town of West Point,
Stephenson county, Illinois, to Ira Bradford and Martha Elizabeth
Hinckley, natives of Vermont and New York. His father went to Illinois a
young man and was married there. He secured land, taught school for some
time, and finally settled at Lena. Here the subject of this sketch was
reared and educated in the village schools. After managing his father's
farm for three years he took a commercial course of one year at Madison,
Wisconsin. In October, 1875, he became a resident of Lake City and engaged
in the furniture trade with Samuel Butturff, now in Marshall county. Two
years later he went into his present partnership with Andrew Koch, under
firm name of Lake City Furniture Company. In the great fire of April,
1882, they suffered a loss of four thousand dollars on their stock. They
then built the store which they occupy, on the south side of Washington
street. Two stories are occupied and a large stock is carried. The monthly
sales are about one thousand dollars. January 4, 1883, Mr. Hinckley was
united in marriage with Miss Susan J., daughter of E. R. and C. M. Kinney,
of Vermont and New York. Mrs. Hinckley is a native of Minnesota, having
been born in the town of Lake, where her parents still reside. Mr.
Hinckley is a member of the I.O.O.F., and has been connected with the
Baptist church since sixteen years of age. He is a republican and an
outspoken temperance advocate.