Biography of
Rev. Frank Bristow Hines
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REV. FRANK BRISTOW HINES.
Prominent among the distinguished citizens of Edwards county is Rev. Frank Bristow Hines, president of the Southern Collegiate Institute
of Albion, Illinois, and a clergyman of the Congregational church. He stands
high as an educator in this section of the state. Since 1904 he has held his
present office, his endeavors having proved remarkably effective towards its
intellectual upbuilding and substantial growth. Under his administration a wise
and progressive leadership has carried the school towards the accomplishment of
its purposes and the realization of its high mission, At the same time, in all
his career at Albion, he has never failed to yield hearty support and
cooperation to any measure that has appealed to him as conducive to the public
good. He has amply commended himself by his fidelity and indefatigable devotion
to public duty.
Mr. Hines
is a Kentuckian by birth, being born in Warren county, March 22, 1859. His
father,
Vincent K. Hines,
also a native of
the Blue Grass state, was born in 1815. The subject‘s paternal grandfather was
one of Kentucky’s pioneer settlers, and was of Scotch-Irish descent, a staunch
combination of ancestral forces which has been transmitted to his descendants.
The founder of the family in America located in Virginia in colonial times. In
1866
Mr. Hines’
father removed with his family to Missouri and settled near Sedalia, where he
secured a farm and devoted the remainder of his life to the great basic industry
of agriculture. He removed to Windsor, Missouri, in 1876, and there died
February 3, 1901. He married
Anna L. Stone,
of Kentucky, and
ten children were born to them. The following brief data concerning these ten
children is herewith entered:
James H. resides in
Sarcoxie, Missouri;
Jane (Craig) is living in Johnson
county, Missouri; Mary F. (Cross) is in Windsor, Missouri;
William died in 1872; Wood M. is a
citizen of Windsor, Missouri;
Virgil M., of Houston,
Missouri, died in 1898; Julia G. (Hall) is located at
Eldorado Springs, Missouri;
Ida M. (Dawson) is in St.
Paul, Minnesota;
Mr. Hines is next in order of birth; and
Volney G. is a resident of Kansas City, Missouri. The
eldest brother, James H., was seventy-one years of age January 20, 1912.
The good mother was called to her eternal rest in June, 1901, at the age of
eighty-two years.
Mr. Hines, at the conclusion of his public school
education, entered Drury College at Springfield, Missouri, and from that
institution of learning was graduated in 1885. Following that he entered Andover
Theological Seminary at Andover, Massachusetts, and was there graduated in 1888.
From Drury he holds both the A. M. and A. B. degree and from old Andover he has
the degree of B. D. In 1888 this well equipped young man took charge of the
pulpit of the Congregational church of Carthage, Missouri, and after a
successful ministry at that place he was called to the Congregational church of
Metropolis, Illinois. His identification with Albion dates from the year 1904,
when he was called to the pastorate of the Congregational church and
president of the Southern Collegiate Institute. His work as preacher and pastor
was recognized as of the highest character and he was four times elected to the
pastorate of this church. He was at the same time president of the Southern
Collegiate Institute. On account of the heavy and constantly increasing duties
of the growing institution, he found it
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necessary to resign his
pastorate. His work here has been of truly splendid proportions, for he has
built a church and has paid off a debt of $10,000 on the college and raised
$50,000 as endowment and building fund. A new, beautiful and appropriate
building is now under construction. In addition to his gifts as an educator he
is a man of fine executive ability and distinctly an organizer. He emphasizes
the Christian character of college work and believes the proper direction of
principles and character to take rank with mental and physical training; his
methods proceed on the thought that morality in the best sense can be taught
only through the inculcation of high ideals constantly kept before the mind of
the student. The college now affords two years of the regular university work in
addition to the four years’ academic curriculum.
Mr. Hines takes more than the
interest of the amateur in agriculture and is the possessor of a fine farm in
the vicinity of Cobden, and near Ozark, Illinois, he has a promising young
orchard of one hundred and thirty acres.
In June, 1888, Mr. Hines was
united in marriage to Laura M. Saunderson, of Boston, Massachusetts, a graduate
of Smith College and a woman of high intellectual attainments and personal
culture. Mrs. Hines died in 1894, leaving three children,—Marion, William
(who
died in October, 1896) and Laura. Marion is now a junior of high rank at Smith,
her mother’s alma mater. Before going to Smith she was for two years an honor
student at Drury College, Springfield, Missouri. Her gifts and personality make
her one of the most popular and prominent of Smith‘s sixteen hundred students.
Laura is now a popular student of the junior class of the Southern Collegiate
Institute of Albion, Illinois. In 1897 Mr. Hines was married to
Anginette
Himmingway, of Oak Park, Illinois, a graduate of Oberlin (O.) College, December
30, 1897. Their cultured and hospitable home is shared with their five
interesting children,—Margarette, a student in the Southern Collegiate
Institute; Frank B., Anginette, Adelaide and Hemingway.
Mr. Hines
takes a deep interest in the great questions and
issues before the American people
and as a close student keeps himself fully informed upon current events. It is
safe to say that among the scholarly and cultured educators of the state he has
few peers.
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