Hiram J. Hinson

    Hiram J. Hinson was born in Mooresville, Morgan County, December 31, 1850. His parents, William H. and Mary  (Butner) Hinson, natives of North Carolina, were married in Morgan County, and located in Mooresville, where the father has farmed, and they at present reside.

    Hiram J. Hinson is the fourth son and child of a family of nine children. He was reared and educated in his native town. When sixteen years of age, he began working on a farm in the neighborhood and continued to farm for five years. In 1861, he began learning the cabinet-making  with his uncle in Mooresville. Remaining with him for two and a half years, he came to Martinsville. Here he entered the employ of Lewis & Co., and in 1873 he opened a shop of his own in Monrovia, Morgan County, and after one year in this, he returned to Martinsville. He then entered the employ of J. A. Lewis, a furniture dealer, with whom he remained for four years. On December 23, 1878, he became a partner of W. W. Kennedy in the same business, having bought his stock of Mr. Lewis. Three years later he purchased the other half interest, and has since carried on the business by himself, at present being one of Martinsville's most successful and enterprising merchants. He ahs a stock of furniture worth $4,000 and is also doing a superior class of undertaking. Mr. Hinson is a member of the A. F. & A. M., Martinsville Lodge, No. 74. Politically he is a Republican.

Source: Counties of Morgan, Monroe and Brown, Indiana. Historical and Biographical. Charles Blanchard, Editor. F. A. Battey & Co., Publishers, 1884.