Thomas S. Hinde, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Thomas S. Hinde

American minister and businessman

Date of Birth: 19-Apr-1785

Place of Birth: Hanover County, Virginia, United States

Date of Death: 09-Feb-1846

Profession: historian, theologian, publisher, explorer, diarist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Aries


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About Thomas S. Hinde

  • Thomas Spottswood Hinde (April 19, 1785 – February 9, 1846) was an American newspaper editor, opponent of slavery, author, historian, real estate investor, Methodist minister and a founder of the city of Mount Carmel, Illinois.
  • Members of the Hinde family were prominent in Virginia, Kentucky, Ohio, and Illinois.
  • His sons Charles T.
  • Hinde became a shipping magnate and Edmund C.
  • Hinde an adventurer.
  • He was the father-in-law of judge Charles H.
  • Constable. Hinde was an active businessman, pursuing real estate, construction, and publishing opportunities in Kentucky, Ohio and Illinois.
  • In his early years, Hinde publicly opposed slavery.
  • He also used his newspaper, The Fredonian, in Chillicothe, Ohio between 1806 and 1808, to highlight issues about Indian treaties and the conspiracy of Aaron Burr.
  • He served in the War of 1812.
  • In later years he was a pioneer in the settlement of Indiana and Illinois, and the expansion of the Methodist Church in these areas.
  • He contributed to the Madoc Tradition and was a noted historian and biographer.
  • Hinde cofounded the Wabash Navigation Company, which engaged in real estate speculation and dam construction.
  • The company dammed the Wabash River next to Hinde's property, creating the Grand Rapids Dam.
  • The dam was abandoned by the Federal government in 1931. Hinde was an ordained Methodist minister and traveled extensively to advance the interests of the church.
  • He was a pioneering circuit rider in the early 1800s in Kentucky, Indiana, Illinois, and Missouri.
  • Hinde wrote and published religious articles in many leading publications.
  • Francis Asbury, one of the first two bishops of the Methodist Episcopal Church in the United States, considered Hinde important to the church.
  • He frequently met with him and mentioned him in his journals.
  • Historian Lyman Draper spent more than twenty years collecting documents by and about the Hinde family, along with papers of other important figures of the Trans-Allegheny West.
  • The Draper Manuscript Collection at the Wisconsin Historical Society holds 47 volumes of Hinde's personal papers, donated by his family after his death.

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