Lee Dinwiddie

    Lee Dinwiddie, attorney at law and notary public, was born in Pine Township, Warren County, Indiana, November 4, 1854. His parents, John Dinwiddie and Matilda (Buckles) Dinwiddie, were natives of Ohio, where they were married October 3, 1833, emigrating to Indiana in the fall of 1834, locating in the northern part of Warren County, south of Fowler, where they endured all the hardships and privations of frontier life. They now reside in Newtown, Indiana, and the 3d of October, 1883, will be the fiftieth anniversary of their marriage. They were accompanied to this country by the parents of Mrs. Dinwiddie, in a two-horse wagon, and the "old Buckles homestead" is yet familiar to the minds of all who live in that locality.

    Lee Dinwiddie, the youngest but one in a family of nine children, received the advantages of a country school until nineteen years of age, when he entered the business world for himself. He gained a fair education, closing his schooling by a course in the Northern Indiana Normal school, at Valparaiso. He began the study of law, in 1877, with Straight & Wiley, of Fowler, and in 1880 purchased the business, and is one of the successful men of Fowler. January 12, 1881, he married Miss Annie Hinkley, who was born March 12, 1855, in Monmouth County, New Jersey and is a member of the Christian Church.

Source: Counties of Warren, Benton, Jasper and Newton, Indiana. Historical and Biographical. F.A. Battey & Co., 1883.