Braxton County, West Virginia Biography of CARY C. HINES This file was submitted by Valerie Crook, E-mail address: The submitter does not have a connection to the sketch subject. This file may be freely copied by individuals and non-profit organizations for their private use. All other rights reserved. Any other use, including publication, storage in a retrieval system, or transmission by electronic, mechanical, or other means requires the written approval of the file's author. This file is part of the WVGenWeb Archives. If you arrived here inside a frame or from a link from somewhere else, our front door is at http://www.usgwarchives.net/wv/wvfiles.htm The History of West Virginia, Old and New Published 1923, The American Historical Society, Inc., Chicago and New York, Volume III, pg. 269-270 Braxton County CARY C. HINES. A leading member of the legal fraternity of Braxton County, who has also been identified prominently with civic and political affairs, is Cary C. Hines, engaged in the successful practice of his calling at Sutton for a period of a quarter of a century. Mr. Hines was born at the mouth of Wolf Creek, near Alderson, Monroe County, West Virginia, March 10, 1874, the ninth son of Joseph Powell and Lucy (Alderson) Hines. Joseph Powell Hines was also born near the mouth of Wolf Creek, in 1831, and died at Rock Camp, Monroe County, in 1904. His father, William Hines, was a son of Charles and Margaret Hines, who settled on Wolf Creek, now in Monroe County, in which locality Charles Hines died in 1804 and his widow, some years afterward. Joseph Powell Hines married Lucy Alderson, who was born at Alderson, West Virginia, in 1831, and died at Rock Camp, Monroe County, in 1898. She was a daughter of John Alderson and a granddaughter of Rev. John Alderson, who preached for the Baptist congregation at Linnville Creek, Virginia, in 1775. After two missionary trips to Green- brier Valley in the year 1777 Rev. John Alderson came here permanently and built his house in the Town of Alderson, on the present site of the Alderson Hotel. He was the founder of the Greenbrier Valley Baptist Church at Alder- son and of the Baptist Church in the Greenbrier Valley, and was a man widely known for his good deeds and earnest work as a spiritual guide and advisor. He died at Alderson, which town takes its name from his grandson, George Alder- son, now living there in the eighty-eighth year of his age, who in his younger days was a member of the State Legis- lature when the capital was located at Wheeling. To Joseph Powell and Lucy (Alderson) Hines there were born ten sons, as follows: Jesse E., engaged in farming at Willow Bend, this state; Charles A., a farmer of Cashmere, West Virginia; Robert L., of Linside, Monroe County, en- gaged in farming; George R., carrying on agricultural operations at Cower, near St. Joseph, Missouri; Thomas H., who is farming at Mound City, Missouri; James Elmer, of Jackson, Ohio; John Powell, who followed farming at Mound City, Missouri, until his death, December 16, 1921; Samuel Oscar, formerly a traveling salesman for the Sutton Grocery Company, who died at Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland, December 7, 1901; Gary C., of this review; and William E., a graduate of the law school of the West Virginia University, class of 1891, and a senior mem- ber of the law firm of Hines & Kelly at Sutton. Gary C. Hines received his early education in the public schools of Monroe County, following which he took a course at the Concord Normal School, Athens, West Virginia. Next he taught three terms of public school at Red Sulphur Springs, Monroe County, and then entered the law school of the West Virginia University, from which he was duly graduated with his degree as a member of the class of 1897. In that year he formed a partnership for the practice of his profession at Sutton with R. G. Linn and W. E. R. Byrne, of Charleston, West Virginia, under the firm style of Linn, Byrne & Hines, which connection continued until the year 1908, when Mr. Byrne withdrew from the firm and W. F. Morrison, Jr., was admitted, the style then becoming Linn, Hines & Morrison. This partnership was terminated in 1919, when Mr. Linn died, but the firm of Hines & Mor- rison continued until June 1, 1921, when Mr. Morrison severed his connection therewith, and since that time Mr. Hines has ben practicing alone at Sutton, Mr. Morrison having removed to Charleston. Mr. Hines has a large and representative practice and is accounted one of the leaders of the Braxton County bar, where he has been connected with numerous important cases. He has also been identified with public affairs as a prom- inent figure in the ranks of the democratic party. In the democratic primary of 1904 he was a candidate for the office of prosecuting attorney, but was defeated for the nomination. In 1908 be was again a candidate for the same office and received the nomination in the democratic con- vention without opposition. Elected to the office in the following fall, he served capably as prosecuting attorney of Braxton County from January 1, 1909, to January 1, 1913. Mr. Hines has a number of business interests, being president of the Central Utilities Company, which furnishes light, power and water to Sutton besides operating the ice plant, is a stockholder and director of the Sutton Grocery and Milling Company, a wholesale grocery concern doing business at Sutton, and is attorney for the Bank of Sutton, all of which enterprises he assisted in organizing. He be- longs to the Knights of Pythias and is a Knight Templar Mason and a member of Beni-Kedem Temple of the Mystic Shrine at Charleston. On January 16, 1900, Mr. Hines was united in marriage in Braxton County with Miss Elizabeth Morrison, daughter of Wellington F. and Sarah E. (Berry) Morrison. Mr. and Mrs. Hines have one daughter, Virginia Ruth, born De- cember 5, 1901, who graduated from the Sutton High School in 1918, at the age of seventeen years, attended one term at the Ohio Wesleyan University at Delaware, Ohio, and spent two years at the Ward-Belmont School, Nashville, Tennes- see, from which she was graduated as a member of the class of 1922.