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daughter, Elizabeth, married Judge William Perry, who afterward purchased of William (born 1743) the estate "Kirkham" and changed its name to " Perr\' Hall." Jacob Hindman died in Talbot county, Md.. Sept. 9, 17CG.

HINDMAN, Thomas Carmichael, soldier, was born in Tippah county, Miss., about 1826; son of Thomas Carmichael Hindman, an officer in the war of 1812, who removed from near Knoxville, Tenn., to Talladega, Ala., and subsequently to near Ripley, Tippah county. Miss., where Thomas, Jr., was born, and received a common school education. He went to Mexico as lieuten- ant in the 2d Mississippi regiment, Colonel Clark, 1846, and served till the close of the war. He studied law, 1847-49, and was admitted to the bar. He was a representative in the state legis- lature in 1851 or 1852; was a friend of Jefferson Davis, and advocated the right of the states to secede as early as 1851, when he canvassed the state in opposition to Henry S. Foote, Unionist. He removed to Helena, Ark., in 1853, and prac- tised law with Maj. John C. Palmer. He repre- sented the Helena district of the state in the 36th congress, 1859-61; supported Henry M. Rector for governor of Arkansas in 1859, and ■was re-elected to the 3Tth congress in 1860. When the state seceded, he raised a regiment for the Confederate States army, which he com- manded, and which was increased to a legion by the addition of a battalion and battery of artil- lery. He was at Pittman's Ferry, Ark., 1861, and in August was sent to Cave City, Ky., and thence to Corinth, Miss. He was commissioned brigadier- general while in Kentucky, and commanded a division at Corinth, April 6-7, 1862, where he was thrown from his horse and injured. He was commissioned major-general the day before the battle, and afterward commanded the trans- Mississippi district, with headquarters at Little Rock, Ark., where he had organized a new army of 18,000 armed and 8000 unarmed men, when superseded by Gen. Theophilus H. Holmes. He commanded the Confederate force at the battle of Prairie Grove, Dec. 7, 1862, where he was driven back by the Federal army under Gen. James G. Blunt, and he retreated to Little Rock. He reported to General Bragg, at Chattanooga, Sept. 1, 1863, and commanded a division of Polk's corps of the left wing of Bragg's army un- der Longstreet at the battle of Chickamauga, Sept. 19-20, 1863, where he was wounded and su- perseded by Gen. J. P. Anderson. He quarrelled with the commanding general and was relieved of his command for a time, but again com- manded his division in Hardee's corps, Johnston's Army of Tennessee, in the battle of Resaca, Ga., May 14, 1864. He drove back the Federal line at Kenesaw Mountain, June 27, 1864, but being ex-

posed to the fire of the Confederate artillery, was obliged to fall back, and this movement sub- jected his division to the loss of about 1000 men. After the war he removed to the city of Mexico, but returned in 1867 and settled in Helena, Ark., where he resumed the practice of the law. He was married to a daughter of Henry S. Biscoe, of Arkansas, and they had one son. Prof. Biscoe Hindman. General Hindman was assassinated at his home, it is supposed, by one of his former soldiers in revenge of an act of discipline. He died at Helena, Ark., Sept. 28, 1868.

HINDMAN, William, statesman, was born in Dorchester county, Md., April 1, 1743; son of Jacob Hindman (q. v.) He studied law at the Inns of Court, London. In 1765 he was admitted to the Maryland bar and settled in Talbot county, where lie inherited part of his father's property in 1766, and divided his attention between law and agriculture. He was a member of the state convention and secretary of the county committee of observation in 1775; treasurer of the eastern shore of Maryland, 1775-77, and a member of the state senate in 1777, and again, 1781-84. He was a delegate to the Continental congress, 1784-88; a member of the executive council, 1789-92, and a representative in the 2d, 3d, 4th and 5th congresses, 1792-99. He was U.S. sena- tor to fill the unexpired term of James Lloyd, resigned, and served from December, 1800, to November, 1801. See Life and Services, by Sam- uel A. Harrison, M.D. (1880). He died, unmar- ried, at the residence of his brother, Col. James Hindman, in Baltimore, Md., Jan. 19, 1822.

HINDS, John Iredel Dillard, educator, was born in Guilford county, N.C., Dec. 13, 1847; son of John and Rhoda (Webb) Hinds; grandson of Simeon and Elizabeth (Stone) Hinds, and a great-grandson of Joseph Hinds, who came from England and settled in North Carolina. He was graduated from Cumberland university, Tenn.. A.B., A.M. and C.E. in 1873, and took a post- graduate course at the University of Berlin, Ger- many, 1880, and at Harvard college, 1882. He was professor of chemistry in Cumberland uni- versity, 1873-99; was elected dean of the faculty in 1892, and in 1899 he removed to Nashville, Tenn., having been elected professor of chemis- try in the University of Nashville and Pea- body Normal college. He received the degree of Ph.D. from Lincoln university in 1885. He served as a member of the International Sunday- School Lesson committee from 1884; was elected a member of the American Chemical society, and was superintendent of the Monteagle assem- bly, 1891-97. He is the author of: Use of Tobacco; Charles Darwin: American System of Educa- tion, and contributions to scientific and literary journals.