Kenosha County WI Archives Biographies.....Hinsdale, Henry B. 
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Author: Western Historical Society (1879)

    HENRY B. HINSDALE is a native of New York, and came from there to Kenosha in
the spring of 1843. He was engaged in the mercantile business for nine years,
then went to Chicago, where he carried on the lumber business for ten years. In
1862, he returned to Kenosha, and became Vice President if the Kenosha Co. Bank.
In  1865, he became Secretary of the N. W. Telegraph Co. Mr. Hinsdale has held
various responsible offices. He was Postmaster for two years under John Tyler;
was County Treasurer for two years; Register of Deeds for one year, and
President of the School Board two years. He organized the City Fire Department
about 1845. and was Chief Engineer  for seven years. He also organized the
"Kenosha Rifles," and commanded that company for a number of years. It went into
the late war in the 1st Wis. V. I, under the command of his old Orderly
Sergeant. Mr. Hinsdale is a prominent Odd Fellow, and, in 1850, was elected G.
M. for Wisconsin, and the following year, Grand Representative to the Grand
Lodge I. O. O. F. of the United States.

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THE HISTORY OF RACINE AND KENOSHA COUNTIES, WISCONSIN,

CONTAINING A HISTORY OF EACH COUNTY, ITS EARLY SETTLEMENT, GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT,
RESOURCES, ETC., AN EXTENSIVE AND MINUTE SKETCH OF ITS CITIES, THEIR
IMPROVEMENTS, INDUSTRIES, MANUFACTORIES, CHURCHES, SCHOOLS, SOCIETIES, ETC.,
ETC., WAR RECORD, BIOGRAPHICAL 8KBTCHES, PORTRAITS OF PROMINENT MEN AND EARLY
SETTLERS, VIEWS OF BUILDINGS, ETC., ETC.; ALSO HISTORY OF WISCONSIN, COSTITUTION
OF THE UNITED STATES AND OF WI8CON8IN, CONDEN8ED AB8TRACT OF LAWS OF WI8CONSIN,
MISCELLANEOUS, ETC., ETC.

ILLUSTRATED.
CHICAGO: WESTERN HISTORICAL COMPANY.
MDCCCLXXIX.
(1879)


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