Delatus Hinman Biography

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	Dakota" by Doane Robinson, Vol. II (1904) and was scanned, 
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	DELATUS HINMAN, of Yankton county, was born in Oswego county, New 
York, April 6, 1848, and is of English lineage.  His paternal great-
grandfather was Edward Hinman, who deserted the land of his birth and 
established his home in the new world and the family has since been 
represented in America by loyal adherents of the interest of this 
country.  The grandfather, Ephraim Hinman, was drafted for service in 
the war of 1812. The parents of the subject were William and Julie 
(Salisbury) Hinman, both of whom were natives of New York, in which 
state they lived and died.  The father was a farmer by occupation and a 
well-known citizen of this country.  He died in the year 1888 and his 
wife passed away in 1884. They were both members of the Methodist 
Episcopal church and lived in harmony with their profession.  The 
political support of Mr. Hinman was given to the Whig party, and later 
to the Republican party and eventually he became a Prohibitionist.

	Delatus Hinman was reared in his father's home and assisted in the 
cultivation of the farm until lie had attained his majority, when he 
entered upon an independent business career as a school teacher and 
followed that profession through several winter terms.  Attracted by the 
opportunities of the rapidly developing west, he came to Yankton county 
in the fall of 1869, traveling by stage from St. Louis.  He has been 
identified with the educational interests of this locality for several 
terms as a teacher, and in i869 he made preparations for carrying on 
agricultural pursuits by entering one hundred and sixty acres of land 
from the government, while to this he afterward added another quarter 
section.  He afterward sold both tracts and in the fall of 1870 he 
bought one hundred and sixty acres in township 94, range 55.  There were 
no improvements upon the place except a log house, but he has since 
devoted his knowledge to the care and cultivation of the farm, upon 
which he has lived continuously since 1877.  He has a fine farm and in 
1878 he erected a substantial and attractive residence.  He has likewise 
built good barns and added other improvements and the boundaries of his 
farm he has extended by the purchase of eighty acres.  The entire farm 
is now under cultivation.  In the early days he lost his crops because 
of the grasshoppers, but he persevered in his work and as the years have 
gone by he has accumulated a comfortable competence.  He now breeds hogs 
and cattle and makes a specialty of the production of alfalfa hay.  He 
has a good apple orchard, containing some of the best bearing trees of 
the state, and his farm is modern in all its equipments and constitutes 
one of the valuable properties of the community.

	On the 1st of March, 1877, Mr.  Hinman was united in marriage to 
Miss Jane Ottman, a daughter of Jacob and Christiana Ottman, who spent 
their entire lives in New York, the father being a successful farmer 
there.  He voted with the Republican party and both he and his wife were 
members of the Disciple church.  Unto Mr. and Mrs. Hinman has been born 
one son, Byron, whose birth occurred January 1, 1885, and who is now a 
student in college at Yankton.  In 1893 they adopted Mary Kincel, nine 
years of age, whose parents, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Kincel, were both 
deceased.  The child took the name of Mary Kincel Hinman, and has been 
given a good education, graduating from Yankton Academy in June, 1903.  
The parents hold membership in the Methodist church, taking an active 
part in its work, and their labors are effective in promoting its 
welfare and extending its influence.

	Mr. Hinman is a Prohibitionist, with strong party tendencies, and 
fraternally he is connected with the Modern Woodmen, the Pyramids and 
the Royal Tribe of Joseph.  Because of his success and sterling worth, 
Yankton county numbers him among her representative men.