The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-06-07
JUDGE c. c. HINES DEAD
HE WAS AT ONE TINE GENERAL
HARRISON'S LAW PARTNER.
He Had Recently Come from the East
to Visit His Son, Fletcher 5.
Hincs-Sketch of His Life.


father of Fletcher S. Hines, and formerly
one of the best known members of the
Marion county bar and for several years
judge OF the Circuit Court. died yesterday
shortly before noon at the Deaconess Hos
pital. He suffered from complications in
duced by stroke of apoplexy several years
ago. He had been here visiting his son and
was taken to the hospital on the day set
for his departure for his summer residence
near Ludlow, VT At no time was there
much hope of his recovery.
The funeral service will be held at st.
Davd's Church tomorrow. The hour OF
the services and the names of the pail
bearers will be announced to-day.
Judge Hines was born in Washington
county, New York. Dec. 10. 1880 When
quite young and after the death of his ia
Their he removed. with his mother and two
brothers, to Lonsdale. r. 1. There he
worked for several years in the cotton
mills, and then spent two years in study
ing, and later taught for two years in the
Normal Institute at Lancaster.
He came TO Indianapolis in 1854, and at
once began reading law in the Office of ST.
mon Yandes. with whom he entered into
partnership in December, 1855. after being
was continued until 1860 when Mr.. Yandes
retired from active practice. He then
formed a partnership with Upton j. Ham
mond, and continued the law practice under
the firm name of Hines & Hammond
On April 10, at the outbreak Of the
civil war, he enlisted in the Eleventh Indi-
ana olunteers as sergeant of Company
II, but after getting into the field he was
detailed as orderly TO Gen. T. a. Morris.
and later was promoted TO captaincy,
and as such served as an aid on the staff
~ Morris
enlistment and the West Virginia cam
paign, in which he participated. he re-
turned to indianapolis. In August, 1862 he
was commissioned major of the Twenty
fourth Indiana Volunteers, with which he
served until February. 1863. when he was
given commission colonel of the Fifty
seventh Indiana Volunteers. This regiment
was one which had been recruited mainly
through the efforts of a preacher named
McMullen, and made up, for the most
part, OF preachers and professional men.
They were wholly undrilled, and after sew
eral months in the service were hardly
more than raw recruits. Colonel Hines
had ideas of his own as to how a regiment
should be managed and these ideas he put
into practice at first much TO the dislike of
the members of the regiment, but after
waro he was recognized as an efficient Of
ficer and held in high regard by them. On
Dec. 81 1862, he was wounded in the battle
of Stone River being shot through the leg
DR.. w. b. Fletcher, who had walked TO
the battlefield from Louisville. His injury
he resigned Aug. Is, 1863.
RESUMED PRACTICE OF LAW.
He returned to Indianapolis. and in May.
1866, resumed the practice of law with his
former partner. Upton ]. Hammond, and
Livingston Rowland, who afterwards be-
came judge.
In October, 1866 he was elected to the
office of judge of the judicial circuit COM
posed OF Marion. Hendricks and Johnson
counties. and in this position served until
1870, when he resigned. In that year Will
lam p. Fishback, who had been a men,
Der of the firm of Porter, Harrison * Fish
back, retired from the partnershp-Judge
Hines had been invited TO take his place,
and for this reason he resigned. He had
succeeded Judge Coburn as judge of the
Circuit Court and was succeeded by Judge
Harrington. Mr.. Porter retired from the
firm in 1873. and the firm was composed of
General Harrison and Judge Hines until
late in 1874, when w. H. II. Miller, who
came here in that year from Fort Wayne,
taken in as a partner. In 1888 John b.
Elan was admitted as a partner and in
the following year Judge Hines retired
and took charge of the affairs of a brother
I'm New York. The brother died in 1885,
leaving a large estate. which necessitated
a residence OF the executor in New York,
and Judge Hines removed to that city
which he afterwards made his home. In
1892. having settled up the affairs of the
estate, he retired from active business.
Inc law nrrn WITH winch ne was so lntl-
mately connected was a notable one. and
those connected with II achieved high po-
sitions Mr.. Fishback. the first to retire.
was editor of the Indianapolis Journal, and
later had charge of the St. Louis Demo-
Crat Mr.. Porter afterward became Coz
ernor of Indiana: Mr.. Miller became at
torney general of the United States and
General Harrison became the chief execu-
tive of the Nation.
Judge Hines in politics was Republican,
and. although he was an earnest supporter
of the principles which that party repre-
scented, he was never known as an active
worker His election 10 the bench, IL was
said. marked the change from the old time
radical methods Of procedure on the part OF
judges in this district TO the new era when
judges conducted the affairs of their office
more in keeping with the law than pre-
viOusly He was able, II was said. TO hear
impartially the evidence in cases and de-
cided without favor. II was often said he
could have tried i'm full justice TO the law
members of his own family.
HAD A GREAT FACULTY
He had a faculty OF analysis which led
him at once upon hearing the facts TO take
up the side of right. and this faculty made
his partnership with General Harrison one
of great interest. In cases which were
would sit around the office and virtually
try the cases there. Judge Hines invariably
arguing from the point of view which he
thought was right, and thus bringing out
the lighting points of both contestants He
was unusually well-read generally, and was
known as one of the hest chancery lawyers
in the State. He made special study OF