Wm. Wallace Hinds

    Wm. Wallace Hinds is a native of Madison, Indiana, born June 8, 1855; brought up in Madison, attended the city schools, and Hanover College. He is also a graduate of the Commercial School of this city.

    he became the city editor of the Madison Daily Star, June 1, 1850, and continued as such until it was absorbed in the Madison daily Courier. He was then offered the circulation department of that paper, in January, 1884, which accepted and held until August, 1888, when he gave up that position.

    He was elected one of the trustees of the City Water Works in the spring of 1888, on the Republican ticket against a Democratic majority in the city. The trustees elected him president of the Board, and superintendent of the Water Works, which position he is still holding (December, 1888).

    While with the Daily Courier, he was elected a member of the City Council in 1885 on the Republican ticket, and was re-elected to the same position in 1886, form fourth ward of the city.

    Mr. Hinds is an active Odd fellow and prominent member of the K. of P. Order, having held the position of Grand Inner Guard of the State, and is now District Deputy. He was captain of the Madison Division No. 10 U. Rank K. of P. He is now president of Walnut Street Fire Co. No. 4. He is an attendant of the Second Presbyterian church of this city. Mr. W. W. Hinds is the son of James W. and Ruth C. (Cook) Hinds. His father was a native of Brattleborough, Vermont, born September 24, 1809, and came to Madison, Indiana when a young man.

    He was a bricklayer and contractor; he  built a great number of houses in Madison and built Hanover College and the court house in Madison. he also engaged in the mercantile business at Madison and in the coal business. he was County Commissioner of Jefferson County, and served in the City Council at Madison for a number of years. He was a prominent Republican and was chairman of the Republican County Central Committee for some years.

    He was a member of the Second Presbyterian Church in Madison. He was a prominent member of the Odd Fellows, having been made at one time Grand Master of the State, of that order. He was a good citizen. He died May 22, 1878, in the 69th year of his age, leaving a widow and five children; three boys and two girls.

    The mother of W. W. Hinds was the daughter of David and Mary Cook and was a native of East Tennessee; she is still living at the age of seventy-six, and is quite an active, hale woman.

    She is a member of the Second Presbyterian Church of Madison, Indiana, and is quite prominent in the work of that church and all other good works of that kind in the city; a benevolent spirit being one of the chief adornments of her character.

    She was married to Dr. Joseph F. Lingle, at Paoli, Orange County, Indiana, in 1831. By this marriage she had one son, William Summerfield Lingle, who became the editor of the Lafayette (Indiana) Daily Courier, and was a prominent man in newspaper circles of the State. Mr. Lingle was also postmaster of Lafayette for four years.

    In the year 1836, Mrs. Lingle was married to J. W. Hinds, and the fruits of this marriage were nine children -five boys and four girls.

Source: Biographical and Historical Souvenir for the counties of Clark, Crawford, Harrison, Floyd, Jefferson, Jennings, Scott and Washington, Indiana. By John M. Gresham & Co., 1889.