Edmund C. Hinde Biography

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	County, South Dakota" by Dana R. Bailey and was scanned, OCRed 
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HINDE, EDMUND C., was born in England June 16, 1854; received a classical 
education, and upon attaining his majority entered the civil service as 
assistant auditor in the post office department, where he remained several 
years; came to the United States in 1886, and engaged in farming in Minnesota 
until the fall of 1892, when he came to Sioux Falls; in February, 1893, was 
employed in the county treasurer's office as bookkeeper, and just before the 
close of Charles L. Norton's term as county treasurer in 1894, was appointed 
deputy treasurer, which position he held for a few months under John Mundt's 
administration, and then again became the bookkeeper of the office. Soon after 
Mr. Langness assumed the office of county treasurer, he was again appointed 
deputy treasurer, and has held that position since then.  Mr. Hinde is a 
gentleman on all occasions, and is popular with the people with whom he has 
business relations. He is highly respected as a citizen.