Hinds, Thomas
soldier, congressman, was born about 1775. He was a distinguished officer in the battle of New Orleans; and was a representative in congress from Mississippi from 1828 to 1831. He died Aug. 23, 1840, in Jefferson county, Miss.
HINDS, WILLIAM HENRY HARRI- SON, soldier, architect, inventor, poet, was born Jan. 20, 1821, in Milan, N. H.
He received his education in the district schools, and the New Ipswich academy. He then taught school and studied architectural drawing. He was made captain in the twenty-second regiment of the New Hampshire militia; was promoted to major, lieutenant colonel, and was offered the commission of brigadier-general. For several years he was engaged as an architect and builder; then followed dentistry; and is the patentee of a number of improvements in that science. During the civil war he raised a company and went as first lieutenant in the sixteenth regiment Massachusetts volunteer infantry. Hesubsequently resigned, raised a company, and went as captain in the thirty-third regiment Massachusetts volunteer infantry. As a musician and poet he is well known, and many of his poems have been incorporated into standard publications.