Hinman New London. He died at Stonington in his sev- enty-second year. He had married, on Mar. i, 1777, Abigail Dolbear, the daughter of George Dolbear of New London. [R. R. Hinman, A Family Record of the Descendants of Sergeant Edward Hinman (1856) ; L. F. Middle- brook, Hist, of Maritime Conn. During the American Revolution (2 vols., 1925) ; Records and Papers of the New London County Hist. Soc., vol. I, pt. 2 (1890), p. 49 ; C. O. Paullin, ed., "Out-Letters of the Continen- tal Marine Committee and Board of Admiralty, Aug. 1776-Sept. 1780," Pubs, of the Naval Hist. Soc., vols. IV and V (1914) ; C. H. Lincoln, Naval Records of the American Revolution, 1775-88 (1906); G. W. Allen, A Naval Hist, of the Am. Revolution (2 vols., 1913)-] G.W.A. HINMAN, GEORGE WHEELER (Nov. 19, iS64-Mar. 31, 1927), editor, publicist, educator, president of Marietta College, was born in Mount Morris, N. Y., the son of Wheeler and LydiaKelsey (Seymour) Hinman. He attended Mount Morris Academy, entered Hamilton Col- lege in 1880, and graduated with honors in 1884. After a little more than a year as a newspaper reporter in Chicago and St. Louis he entered upon advanced studies in economics and public law in the universities of Germany. He studied under Rudolf von Gneist in Berlin and other fa- mous teachers in Leipzig and Heidelberg and received the degree of Ph.D. at Heidelberg in February 1888. He then returned to the United States to begin a long career as a journalist, or publicist, as he preferred to call himself. He joined the staff of the New York Sun (1888), then under the editorial direction of Charles A. Dana, and in time acquired the vigorous, plain- speaking literary style of the elder man. In 1891 he married Maud M. Sturtevant of New York City. After nearly ten years with the Sun he became editor-in-chief of the Chicago Inter Ocean (1898) and later president of the com- pany (1902). His editorial ability made his newspaper a powerful influence in the Middle West, but he and his associates never succeeded in placing it on a sound financial basis. In 1912 Hinman disposed of his interest in the Inter Ocean, intending to retire from active editorial work, but in the following year he accepted the presidency of Marietta College. His inaugural address, delivered on Oct. 14, 1913 ("The New Duty of American Colleges," Marietta College Bulletin, Dec. 1913, and United States Senate Document 236, 63 Cong., i Sess.), was a de- fense of the "representative republic" of the Fa- thers and a condemnation of the "limitless de- mocracy" which Hinman saw behind the indus- trial reforms advocated by Presidents Roosevelt and Wilson. "Education has the imperative duty to prepare men either to fall in with this mighty change intelligently or to resist it intelligently— Hinman to let them know just what are these institutions which it is proposed to bring from other ages and peoples and substitute for the institutions that we now have." His policy for Marietta Col- • lege was to secure for its students not only a lib- eral education, but to give a special education in the problems of the day that every one might know "the verdict of history on such a govern- ment as is proposed to us." Among his own students he fortified his position by teaching in great detail a course in the history of the French Revolution. His policies and his personal meth- ods divided the college body into two antago- nistic factions. He did not seek, and likewise did not win, much favor from the alumni body. On Jan. i, 1918, he left college administration and returned to Chicago and newspaper work. A life of retirement was foreign to his nature. In 1921 he became head of the association which published the Chicago Herald and Examiner. In March 1923 he resigned this position but con- ducted a column syndicated in the Hearst papers. His home was at Winnetka, 111., and there he died in his sixty-third year, active until the end. Although Hinman possessed a commanding fig- ure and seemed to enjoy defending his convic- tions, he was ordinarily gentle and sympathetic and was always deeply religious. It was not as an educator or college administrator that he made deepest impress on his generation, but as an editor and publicist. He was the last of the old school of personal editors, and the Inter Ocean was the last of the personally edited news- papers of Chicago. He differed from his con- temporaries in the deliberate choice of his career and in his unusual preparation for its responsi- bilities, but he did not escape the intense preju- dices common to the writers on public questions at the opening of the twentieth century. [Sigma Phi Flame, Oct. 1927; Marietta Coll. Alumni Quart., Apr. 1927; Hist, of the Class of 1884 Hamilton Coll., 1884-1914 (1914); Who's Who in America, 1926-27 ; Chicago Herald and Examiner, Chicago Trib- une, Apr. i, 1927.] EJ.B. HINMAN JOEL (Jan. 27, i8o2-Feb. 21,1870), jurist, born at Southbury, Conn., was the twelfth of the fifteen children of Joel and Sarah (Cur- tis) Hinman. He was descended from Edward Hinman, said to have been of the bodyguard of Charles I, who settled in Stratford, Conn., about 1650. Both his father and his grandfather, Col. Benjamin Hinman, served as officers in the Rev- olutionary War. Later his father became a pros- perous farmer in Southbury. Young Hinman received a common-school education and then began the study of the law. He first studied with Judge Chapman at Newtown and later In the firm of Staples & Hitchcock at New Haven.