Hi: I spotted the bio and another entry about Sampson Hinds below while browsing. Regards Nan 71532.734@compuserve.com ======================================= Found at: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~pennstreet/ITsketches.htm#Hinds Hinds, Sampson O. (pp. 239, 241) Return to Biographical Index Born December, 1846, in Jennings County, Indiana, the second son of John Hinds and Eliza Mace, of Beaver County, Pennsylvania. Sampson attended neighborhood school until the war broke out, when he joined Company E, 82d Indiana Infantry, Federal service, and was afterwards transferred to Company H, 122d Indiana Infantry. During the war his people had moved to Iowa, where he joined them in 1866, and took a three years' course of study at the Leon High School. Afterwards he commenced reading law with Judge J. W. Harvey, of Leon, where he was afterwards admitted to the bar. In May, 1873, he married Miss Jennie M. Rankin, of Dexter, Dallas County, Iowa, and in the fall moved to Lincoln County, Kansas, where he commenced practicing his profession. In 1874 he was elected county attorney for the above county, and held that office for four years. His wife dying in August, 1877, he married Miss Luella A. Gilkison, of Terra Haute, Indiana, in March, 1889. Mr. HInds practiced law at Lincoln until the fall of 1884, when he was elected judge of the Fourteenth Judicial District in Kansas, which position he held for four years, moving in April, 1889, to Muskogee, where he now resides. By his first marriage, Mr. Hinds has two children, Warren C. and Jessie M., now at college at Muskogee. By his second marriage he has four children---Jessie G., Franklin J., Homer C. and Atta M. Mr. Hinds is a man of fine personal appearance, five feet six inches in height and weighs 210 pounds. He is a lawyer of considerable ability and experience. His firm is known by the title of Hinds & Jackson, and these gentlemen have an extensive practice in the United States courts of the Indian Territory. ================================== Found at: http://digital.library.okstate.edu/Chronicles/v013/v013p457.html Chronicles of Oklahoma Volume 13, No. 4 December, 1935 OKLAHOMA'S FIRST COURT By Grant Foreman. Mr. Walrond, the district attorney, then moved for his own admission to practice in the court. The Judge allowed the motion and made the necessary order, after which the following attorneys were admitted to practice in said court upon presentation of proper certificates or other valid proofs of being attorneys in good standing: D. Stewart Elliot of Kansas, Y. N. Foster of Illinois, Napoleon B. Maxey of Illinois, Walter A. Ledbetter of Texas, E. C. Boudinot, of Arkansas, Robert L. Owen,2 of Indian Territory, J. H. Crichton, of Kansas, L. E. Jackson, of Indiana, Ridge Paschal, of Indian Territory, Sampson D. Hinds, of Kansas, Preston Lester, of Tennessee, Joseph G. Ralls, of Arkansas, W. D. Crawford, of Arkansas, G. W. Pasco, of Texas, L. S. Fears, of Texas, J. H. Akin, of Indian Territory. The court thereupon adjourned until afternoon at two o'clock, when adjournment was again taken until the next day. =============================== Lower down on same webpage as above: When court convened at two o'clock Judge Hinds, chairman of the committee on admission, reported favorably the names of 26 attorneys. He also stated that a number of applicants had filed who did not qualify under the rules of the court. Following this motions were presented to quash summons and dismiss attachments.

Nan, I am greatful for this info. This Sampson and Hinds branch are from my line. It was information that I did not have. Thanks. Clif Hinds George Wolf <71532.734@compuserve.com> wrote: Hi: I spotted the bio and another entry about Sampson Hinds below while browsing. Regards Nan 71532.734@compuserve.com ======================================= Found at: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~pennstreet/ITsketches.htm#Hinds Hinds, Sampson O. (pp. 239, 241) Return to Biographical Index Born December, 1846, in Jennings County, Indiana, the second son of John Hinds and Eliza Mace, of Beaver County, Pennsylvania. Sampson attended neighborhood school until the war broke out, when he joined Company E, 82d Indiana Infantry, Federal service, and was afterwards transferred to Company H, 122d Indiana Infantry. During the war his people had moved to Iowa, where he joined them in 1866, and took a three years' course of study at the Leon High School. Afterwards he commenced reading law with Judge J. W. Harvey, of Leon, where he was afterwards admitted to the bar. In May, 1873, he married Miss Jennie M. Rankin, of Dexter, Dallas County, Iowa, and in the fall moved to Lincoln County, Kansas, where he commenced practicing his profession. In 1874 he was elected county attorney for the above county, and held that office for four years. His wife dying in August, 1877, he married Miss Luella A. Gilkison, of Terra Haute, Indiana, in March, 1889. Mr. HInds practiced law at Lincoln until the fall of 1884, when he was elected judge of the Fourteenth Judicial District in Kansas, which position he held for four years, moving in April, 1889, to Muskogee, where he now resides. By his first marriage, Mr. Hinds has two children, Warren C. and Jessie M., now at college at Muskogee. By his second marriage he has four children---Jessie G., Franklin J., Homer C. and Atta M. Mr. Hinds is a man of fine personal appearance, five feet six inches in height and weighs 210 pounds. He is a lawyer of considerable ability and experience. His firm is known by the title of Hinds & Jackson, and these gentlemen have an extensive practice in the United States courts of the Indian Territory. ================================== Found at: http://digital.library.okstate.edu/Chronicles/v013/v013p457.html Chronicles of Oklahoma Volume 13, No. 4 December, 1935 OKLAHOMA'S FIRST COURT By Grant Foreman. Mr. Walrond, the district attorney, then moved for his own admission to practice in the court. The Judge allowed the motion and made the necessary order, after which the following attorneys were admitted to practice in said court upon presentation of proper certificates or other valid proofs of being attorneys in good standing: D. Stewart Elliot of Kansas, Y. N. Foster of Illinois, Napoleon B. Maxey of Illinois, Walter A. Ledbetter of Texas, E. C. Boudinot, of Arkansas, Robert L. Owen,2 of Indian Territory, J. H. Crichton, of Kansas, L. E. Jackson, of Indiana, Ridge Paschal, of Indian Territory, Sampson D. Hinds, of Kansas, Preston Lester, of Tennessee, Joseph G. Ralls, of Arkansas, W. D. Crawford, of Arkansas, G. W. Pasco, of Texas, L. S. Fears, of Texas, J. H. Akin, of Indian Territory. The court thereupon adjourned until afternoon at two o'clock, when adjournment was again taken until the next day. =============================== Lower down on same webpage as above: When court convened at two o'clock Judge Hinds, chairman of the committee on admission, reported favorably the names of 26 attorneys. He also stated that a number of applicants had filed who did not qualify under the rules of the court. Following this motions were presented to quash summons and dismiss attachments. ============================== Gain access to over two billion names including the new Immigration Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. Click to learn more. http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4930&sourceid=1237 --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? vote.yahoo.com - Register online to vote today!