FRED O. HINKSON Guthrie county will be represented in the house this session by a prominent attorney of Stuart, the Hon. F. O. Hinkson. He is a native of New Hampshire, born at Canaan, December 17, 1855. He came to Iowa and located in the vicinity of Stuart in 1869. He was married to Miss Cora B. Beach, the only daughter of the late Dr. David Beach, October 1, 1885. They have an interesting family of four daughters, Anna, Mabel, Nellie, and Helen. Mr. and Mrs. Hinkson are members of the Methodist church and prominent in the social life of their little city. Mr. Hinkson's earlier life was spent on the farm, and his initial education obtained in the public schools. Later he attended Simpson college at Indianola, taking the Latin scientific course. He graduated in the class of 1882 with the degree of M. S. conferred on him. He then entered the State university and was graduated from the law department of that institution in 1883. He has been in active practice continuously since, five years in Greenfield, the remainder of the time in Stuart. He was in partnership with the Hon. Charles D. Fogg from 1888 till the latter removed to Tacoma, since which time Mr. Hinkson has been alone. He is an able lawyer and enjoys an extensive practice. He is a member of the Odd Fellows lodge and encampment. In politics he is a free silver republican, but always voted and worked with the republicans till after the St. Louis convention. He is sent to the house by the fusionists. He will be heard from on legislation pertaining to general matters, and is especially interested in railroad affairs. HINKSON, Fred Oscar, member of the House in the Twenty-seventh General Assembly, from Guthrie County, is another New England boy who has earned successor in the west. He was born at Canaan, New Hampshire, December 17, 1895. His father, Farnum Hinkson, a native farmer of New Hampshire, became the possessor of what was known in those days as a good New England farm, upon which he resided until April, 1869. He moved west, coming to Adair County, Iowa, where he bought and improved a farm of 120 acres about six miles southwest from Stuart. In 1880 he sold out and bought twenty acres near town, where he resided until the spring of 1891, when his wife died, breaking up the home, and he went to live with the children, making his home with his son. Fred O., and daughter, Mary A. Gregg. He died August 2, 1899, at the ripe old age of eighty-four years, respected by all who knew him. He voted for every republican nominee for president. He began to vote when "Tippecanoe" Harrison was elected, and voted for that hero. The Hinksons were all New Englanders, the>lt;r ancestry in the United States dating back to the sixteenth century. Sabra A. Bullock Hinkson came from a long line of ancestry on the Bullock side of the house, who were natives of New Hampshire. She was the mother of four children: Georgiannah, who died in infancy; Rhoannah, now the wife of Thacher Brown of Stuart; Mary A., the wife of A. T. Gregg, living near Stuart, and Fred O. Hinkson, the subject of this sketch. Mr. Hinkson worked on his father's farm and attended school in New Hampshire until he was fourteen years of age, when his parents came west, and he helped break and improve the Adair County farm. He continued to work on the farm and attend the district school until he was eighteen years of age. The fall before he was eighteen, he went five and one-half miles on horseback to Menlo to school. The county superintendent taught the school, and from him young Hinkson got his first certificate to teach, which he did in Adair County, in the winter of 1873 and 1874. With these earnings, and more secured by working on a farm the next summer, working five months for $100, he began to pay his way through school. In the fall of 1874 he entered Simpson College, at Indianola. He kept on teaching school and working on a farm during vacations to get money with which to finish his education, as his father had released him from home obligations, that he might earn an education. He continued in school until June, 1882, when he graduated in the Latin and Scientific course, with the highest average standing, and as salutatorian of his class. He earned every dollar that he expended during the eight years he was in college, up to the senior year. When he had finished his collegiate course, he desired to study law. but was without money; whereupon, T. P. Neville, one of his old teachers in the district school, learning of the situation, offered to loan him the money with which to complete his law course. He entered the law class of the Iowa State University in 1882, and graduated in 1883 with, honors, being selected by the faculty as one of ten, out of a class of about one hundred, to deliver an oration at the class commencement exercises. While in Simpson College he was a member of the Phi Kappa Psi Fraternity. Since leaving school, the degree of M. S. has been conferred upon him by Simpson College. In the fall of 1888 he opened an office in Greenfield for the practice of law. He remained there five years, when he removed to Stuart and went into partnership with Charles S. Fogg, one of the oldest and best practitioners in western Iowa. In 1S89 Mr. Fogg removed to Tacoma, Washington, and Mr. Hinkson succeeded to the practice of the firm. While in Greenfield, Mr. Hinkson was twice elected to the office of mayor of that city, and in Stuart has been twice elected to the office of city solicitor, and once to the office of mayor. He has never asked for a nomination for any office, at the hands of any political party. , In politics, he has always been a republican, until the fall of 1896, when he took exception to the gold clause in the republican platform, and took the stump against it. In 1897 he was the fusion nominee for Representative from Guthrie County, and, though the county is strongly republican and has been represented in the Legislature by republicans for many years, Mr. Hinkson's personal friends were so numerous and active, and he was held in such high esteem, that he was elected by a good majority. He is a firm believer in prohibition, and voted and worked for the prohibition amendment in 1882. He boasts of the fact that he never took a chew of tobacco, smoked a pipe or cigar, played a game of cards or danced, lie is a prominent Odd Fellow, being a member of both the subordinate, encampment and Rebecca Lodges. He is a member of the Methodist Church, and has been a teacher in the Sunday School for years. Mr. Hinkson was married October i, 1885, to Miss Cora B. Beach, a daughter of Dr. David Beach, one of the prominent early physicians of Iowa. The young husband and wife commenced housekeeping with nothing to depend upon, except the returns from Mr. Hinkson's law practice, which, at that time, bare'y afforded them a comfortable support. By careful management, they were enabled to iive within their income, and, in due time, as business increased, came into the full enjoynent of all of the comforts and conveniences of life. To them were born four children: Annah, Mabel, Nellie and Helen. In the summer of 1893 Mrs. Hinkson's father, Dr. Beach, came from Colorado to hve with her, in the hope that a change of climate might afford him relief from heart trouble, with which he was suffering at that time. He gradually grew worse and, in the following December, died. Within less than a month from the date of his death, Mrs. Hinkson was taken down with a nervous affection, which was declared by her physicians to have been brought on by overwork and worry in connection with the sickness and death of her father. For nearly a year, her life was despaired of, but finally her ailment gave way to treatment, and she slowly recovered, but never to Ker full health. In the early spring of 1898, she again took d wn with the same disease, from which she was unable to rally, and on the 28th of April, 1898, peacefully passed away, an ideal wife and mother, mourned by all who knew her. This left the subject of our sketch with four little girls, the oldest eleven years of age, and the youngest, a babe, about eleven months' old. A neighbor lady, Mrs. A. S. Raber, kindly took little Helen and cared for her during the sickness of her mother, and for some time afterwards. Anxious to provide a home for himself and little family, on August 30, 1899, Mr. Hinkson was married to Mrs. Elizabeth C. Beattie, widow of John J. Beattie, deceased, and youngest daughter of Captain Charles Stuart, the founder of the city of Stuart, where the subject of this sketch resides. Mrs. Hinkson had two children of her own, Grace, who at the date of her marriage with Mr. Hinkson was twelve years of age, and Stuart, about ten years of age. Mrs. Hinkson, too, is of sturdy New England stock, her parents both being natives of Vermont, although she was born in Osceola, Illinois, to which place her parents had removed, at an early day. Here Mrs. Hinkson spent her girlhood days, and until her marriage with Mr. Beattie. In January, 1886, they moved to Stuart, Iowa, where they resided until Mr. Beattie's death in 1894, and Mrs. Hinkson, up to the date of this sketch. Mrs. Hinkson has always been recognized as a leader in church work, public-spirited and ever ready to contribute of her time and means toward every charitable and worthy object. The six children seem to think as much of each other, and are as careful and thoughtful of each others' feelings and interests, as though of one blood, and with never a jar or strife between them, truly they constitute an ideal family. Mrs. Hinkson has large landed interests of her own, which, with Mr. Hinkson's growing and lucrative law practice, enable them to provide every facility for the enjoyment, education and well-being of themselves and family. As a family, they stand high in the community in which they reside, and command the esteem and respect of all who know them.