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roundings and in 1867 they returned to Arkansas.
Against congressional Reconstruction Hindman
again took up the cudgels. On one occasion,
having listened to an inflammatory address to
the negroes by Powell Clayton [#.#.], he re-
turned a hot answer. Shortly afterward he was
shot by an assassin who fired through a window,
killing the general as he sat quietly at home.
Hindman had married, on Nov. 11, 1856, Mary
Watkins Biscoe, daughter of Henry L. Biscoe,
of Helena, Ark.

[War of the Rebellion: Official Records (Army);
C. A. Evans, Confed. Mil. Hist., vol. X (1899) ; C E.
Nash, Biog. Sketches of Gen. Pat Cleburne and Gen.
T. C. Hindman (1898); D. Y. Thomas, Ark. in War
and Reconstruction, 1861-74 (1926); John Hallum,
Biog. and Pictorial Hist, of Ark., vol. I (1877) I Fay
Hempstead, A Pictorial Hist, of Ark. (1890) ; Daily
Ark. Gazette, Sept. 29, 1868; information as to certain
facts from Hindman's son, Biscoe Hindman.]

D.Y.T.

HINDMAN, WILLIAM (Apr. i, i743~Jan.
19, 1822), lawyer, Revolutionary leader, United
States senator, was the grandson of Rev. James
Hindman who upon his arrival from England
about 1710 became the rector of Saint Paul's
Parish in Talbot County, Md. His father, Jacob
Hindman, a prosperous planter of Talbot and
Dorchester counties, married Mary, daughter of
Henry Trippe, and to them William was born
in Dorchester County. He attended the College
of Philadelphia (later the University of Pennsyl-
vania) in the class of 1761, and in 1765 he re-
turned from London where he had gone to com-
plete his preparation for the practice of law. He
was admitted that year to the bar of Talbot
County, but, having inherited large estates, he
was compelled to divide his time between law
and agriculture until his entry into public life
on the eve of the Revolution.

Hindman commenced his public career in 1775
as a member of the Talbot County Committee of
Observation, the duties of which were to exe-
cute, within the county, the resolves of the Con-
tinental Congress and the Maryland Revolution-
ary conventions. He was a member of the con-
vention which met at Annapolis, July 26, 1775,
was chosen by that body treasurer of the Eastern
Shore, and signed the Association of the Free-
men of Maryland for the maintenance of order
and for the support of armed opposition to the
mother country. The first state constitution of
Maryland went into operation in 1776 and in
April of the following year Hindman was chosen
a member of the Maryland Senate. He retained
his seat in that body until December 1784 and
in 1779 fearlessly but unsuccessfully opposed a
bill for the confiscation of all British property
within the state. He vacated his seat in the

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state Senate to serve as a delegate to the Con-
gress of the Confederation until 1788. He was
a member of the executive council of the gov-
ernor of Maryland from 1789 to 1792 and was
again serving in the Maryland Senate in 1792
when he was elected to fill out the unexpired
term, Second Congress, of Joshua Seney in the
United States House of Representatives. He
was reflected to the Third, Fourth, and Fifth
congresses and served continuously from Jan.
30, 1793, to Mar. 4, 1799. Hindman was not an
effective public speaker and he participated but
little in the debates on the floor of the House,
but he was consulted on questions of major im-
portance and exerted a strong influence in sup-
port of authority, promotion of harmony, and
dissolution of discontent. With other Federal-
ists, however, he suffered political unpopularity
following the passage of the Alien and Sedi-
tion Laws and, after a vigorous contest, was de-
feated in the congressional election of 1798 by
Joshua Seney who had resigned his seat as a
Maryland judge to reenter the political arena.
Following his defeat Hindman was elected a
member of the Maryland House of Delegates
and served in that body in 1799 and until Dec. 12,
1800, when he was chosen to fill the vacancy in
the United States Senate created by the resigna-
tion of James Lloyd. He was continued in the
Senate, by appointment of the governor, until
Nov. 19, 1801, when he retired from public life.
His remaining years were devoted to agricul-
tural pursuits on his estate near Wye Landing.
He died, a bachelor, at the home of his brother,
James Hindman, in Baltimore.
[S. A. Harrison, A Memoir of the Hon. Wm. Hind-
man (1880); Biog. Dir. Am. Cong. (1928) ; Archives
of Md., vol. XI (1892); Baltimore Patriot <§• Mercan-
tile Advertiser, Jan. 21, 1822.] N. D.M.
HINDS, ASHER CROSBY (Feb. 6, 1863-
May i, 1919), congressman, parliamentarian,
was born at Benton, Me. His parents, Albert
D. and Charlotte (Flagg) Hinds, died when he
was still a boy. He was educated in the common
schools of Benton, attended Coburn Classical
Institute for a year, and graduated at Colby Col-
lege in 1883. Soon after graduation he went to
Portland and joined the staff of the Portland
Daily Advertiser, of which a kinsman, Hobart
W. Richardson, was then editor. First he
learned the printer's trade, then, upon being
made a reporter, he was so successful that in
1885 he was invited to join the Portland Daily
Press. He was actively engaged on this journal
for a number of years and at the same time ac-
quired an interest in its ownership. His first
acquaintance with legislative operations appears