An Illustrated History of Baker, Grant, Malheur and Harney Counties, 1902
published by Western Historical Publishing Company

WILLIAM C. HINDMAN

Mr. Hindman was born in Pennsylvania on April 30, 1821, being the son of Samuel and Sarah (Manning) Hindman. His father was a native fo Pennsylvania, where his ancestors settled prior to the Revolutionary war, in which struggle they participated, while his father fought in the war of 1812. He was a millwright and followed his trade in the summer and taught school in the winter. Our subject's mother was a native of Baltimore, Maryland, and her ancestors came over with Lord Baltimore and settled in that city. Her father was a soldier in the Revolutionary war and was present at the memorable time when Cornwallis surrendered at Yorktown. She was born three years before Washington was elected for the first time.

Our subject received his primary education in the public schools, and after he was twenty-one years of age wrought his way through a good academy. His parents came to Ohio when he was but a child and from that state he went to Iowa and farmed near Council Bluffs for a time, and then came overland with ox and horse teams to Baker county, in 1863. For two years subsequent to his arrival he freighted and then embarked in cattle raising, taking a homstead and buying enough more land for this enterprise, and to the successful prosecution of this business he has devoted his entire energies, with the result of almost unbounded success. He is also interested in mining and owns some valuable city property. In 1867 he was called from private life by the ballots of his fellows and charged with the responsible duties of representing Baker and Union counties in the state legislature, which he did with display of ability and rigid faithfulness to the interests of his constituents.

The marriage of Mr. Hindman and Miss Sarah Kyle was celebrated in Iowa in 1853; she was a native of New Brunswick, but reared in Ohio. They became the parents of seven children: Clara; Phila; Agnes, deceased; Homer; Grace; Frank; Willard. His sons, Frank and Homer, have charge of his cattle. In 1883 Mrs. Hindman was called from the duties of her position on earth to the regions beyond.

On November 25, 1897, Mr. Hindman was married a second time, on this occasion Mrs. Tollie Mounts Douthitt became his wife. Mr. Hindman was brought up under the teachings of the Presbyterian church, but he has never united with any denomination, although his life is one of the strictest integrity and exemplification of the principles of truth.

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