Hinmanw  
 
 

Transcribed from "History of North Washington, an illustrated history of Stevens, Ferry, Okanogan and Chelan counties", published by Western Historical Publishing Co., 1904.


     W. EDWARD HINMAN, a leading public-spirited and progressive citizen of Mission, Chelan county, was born in Whiteside county,  Illinois, December 10, 1859.  His father, Henry V. Hinman, is a native of Kinderhook, New York, descendant of a family prominent in that state for many generations.  He was a member of the Sixty-fourth Illinois Infantry, served four years in the Civil war, and was wounded in battle.  At present he is register of the land office at North Yakima.  The mother, Jane L. (Brakey) Hinman, was born in Pennsylvania, her father of Irish ancestry, her mother a New Englander.  She resides at North Yakima.
     Until he was eight years of age, our subject lived in Illinois, then in Missouri, for five years, and from there he went to Kansas, where he resided until he gained his majority, attending district schools and working on a farm.  He then traveled in Colorado and California, engaged in mining, and thence to Puget Sound, where he found employment in the lumber business.  In 1884 he came to Mission, Washington, and filed on one hundred and sixty acres of land.  With but a small capital he prosecuted his work on the property, and finally proved up and settled permanently, and, as it eventually proved profitably.  This was in 1891.  He retains forty acres of the original claim, which is devoted to fruit, garden and alfalfa.  He has a six-room, story and a half house, and winters forty head of cattle.  He has one brother and five sisters, Charles H., Laura Cash, Mamie Clark, Sadie Dix, Agnes and Pearl.
     At Mission, January 1, 1893, Mr. Hinman was married to Miss Alice Burns, a native of Crawfordsville, Indiana.  Her father, Paul Burns, was also an Indianian.  She has two brothers and one sister, Henry, Hugh, and Anna.  Two children, Carl, aged four years, and Paul, aged two, have come to brighten her home.
     Mr. Hinman is a reliable Republican, one of the commissioners of Chelan county, and at all times manifests a lively interest in local politics.  He is frequently elected a delegate to county conventions, and has represented his party in Washington Republican State conventions.  Mrs. Hinman is a member of the Presbyterian church.