1882 History of Linn County, Missouri

BIOGRAPHY

HINES, Abraham                                                 Linneus and Lotus Creek Twp.    445

was  born in Virginia, October 12, 1818.  His parents came to Missouri when he was an infant and settled on a farm in Howard county.  Young Hines remained on the farm, receiving few educational advantages at the early day school.  He came to Linn county in 1841, and purchased eighty acres of wild land four miles east of where Brookfield now is and where he still lives.  By subsequent purchases Mr. Hines has increased the size of his farm to six hundred acres, all of which is improved.  In 1850 he with an ox team crossed the plains to California, where he mined on the American River some six years, when having realized enough to pay him for his venture, in 1856 returned to Missouri, via Panama and New York City, where he resumed farming and with farming he also engaged extensively in stock-raising, breeding and selling improved blood stock.

    In February 1836, he married Miss Susan Shifflett of Howard county, Missouri.  They had but one child, Anna Eliza, who died in Linn county, in 1853, at the age of nine years.  Mr. Hines and wife are members of the old Primitive Baptist Church of Liberty, Linn county.

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