Surnames: HINKLE FULTON HUTCHINS SELBY TELMAN KRAMER PAULLIN FARIES Memoirs of the Miami Valley, Vol. III, 1919 pages 311/312 Benjamin Hinkle. The present generation has little conception of the great obstacles which had to be overcome by the farmers of a half a century or more ago, or appreciation of the changes that have taken place in agricultural methods, and which have transformed farm life to such an extent that today it offers greater inducements than at any previous time in the world's history. Butler county has a most interesting history, made equally so by the pioneers and those who came after them, and a family that has been important from pioneer times and has played its part in the development of the county is that of Hinkle, which is honorably represented by the venerable Benjamin Hinkle of West Middletown. Mr. Hinkle was born in Butler county, Ohio, December 24, 1827, and represents one of the pioneer families of the state, to which his paternal grandfather came during the closing years of the eighteenth century, before Ohio had been admitted to the Union. Joseph Hinkle, father of ! Benjamin, was born in Pennsylvania, in 1787, and five years later was brought to Ohio, where he passed the remainder of his life, dying July 3, 1881, the day President Garfield was shot. He was well versed in Indian lore and customs, having passed the early portion of his life in Ohio at a time when the Indians were more in evidence than the white settlers. The grandfather of Benjamin Hinkle was a half brother of the noted inventor, Robert Fulton. Four of his father's brothers were soldiers of the War of 1812, and his stepgrandfather, Gabriel Hutchins, was in the Revolutionary war. Throughout the active years of his life Benjamin Hinkle has been identified with agricultural matters in Butler county and has contributed materially to the growth of the industry and the elevation of its standards. He has resided on his present fine homestead farm near Middletown, since 1859, and has purchased and sold a number of other farm properties in Butler county. Through his upright l! ife and honorable dealings with his fellow-men he has won and holds the respect and confidence of the people, and few men are more worthy of the admiration and esteem of their townspeople. September 26, 1850, Mr. Hinkle married Nancy Selby, who was born March 18, 1830, in Butler county, a daughter of Middleton and Rachel Selby, and also a representative of one of the sterling old pioneer families of this part of the Miami valley. She died May 15, 1917, after having borne her husband eleven children and assisted him in partly rearing three others. Of their own children, three only survive: Mary; Bertha, the wife of Philip Telman of Dayton; and Benjamin, of Preble county. Mr. Hinkle and his daughter Mary occupy the old home at West Middletown, where his daughter, who had never married, renders him affectionate care and constant devotion in the evening of his life. She is one of the most highly esteemed women of her community, where her charities have been numerous and where! her many excellencies of mind and heart are recognized and appreciated. Belonging to this same family, is Miss Laura Hinkle, daughter of Joseph and Mary Ann (Selby) Hinkle, both deceased. She has four brothers and three sisters: Gustavus and Charles, of Monroe, Ohio; Sam of Kansas; Jacob, of Columbus, Ohio; and Jane, Mrs. Bernard Kramer, of Monroe; and two other sisters, Mrs. Rachael Paullin and Mrs. Elizabeth Faries, are deceased. Miss Hinkle was born in Madison township, Butler county, where she was reared on the home farm and attended the public schools. She remained single, tenderly caring for her parents during their declining- years, and now makes her home on the old farm homestead in Butler county, where she is widely known and esteemed and the center of a wide circle of devoted friends. Mrs. Elizabeth Hinkle, grandmother of Mary and Laura Hinkle, raised seventeen children of her own and three others. -- Gary KingBatavia IL     Researching in Knox, Licking, Perry Counties, OHIO: Butcher, Crotinger, Davis, McClurg, Wheatcraft, Cooperrider, Beckenbaugh, Neighbarger, Catt, WilkinIn Butler Co., Ohio: Stahlheber, Kippenberger, Beiser, Pater, KingIn Clermont Co., Ohio:    King, Bartlett, Hall, Aylward.In Botetourt Co. Virginia: King, Bean, Dooley, Mayo, Fouts/Foutz/FoutIn McLean Co., Illinois: Crotinger, Mickens, Bierbower, Jones, Buck.In Kane Co. Illinois:   Gustafson, Maier, Butcher, Keifer, LindgrenVolunteer of Random Acts of Genealogical Kindness at http://www.raogk.org/