F. W. Hink

SOURCE: The Goodspeed Publishing Co., 1889
Contributed by Michael Brown
18 Oct 1998

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F. W. Hink, a prosperous farmer of Sebastian County, Ark., was born in Prussia, Germany, in 1828, and is a son of John and Elizabeth (Fisher) Hink, who were born in Prussia, the former in 1778. John Hink was captain of a body guard to Napoleon Bonaparte at the battle of Waterloo. F. W. Hink spent his early life in traveling through Germany, France, Italy and Switzerland, and served in the War of Rebellion in Baden and Holstein, Germany, under the late Emperor William, who was then commanding the Seventh Division of the German Army. In 1850 he crossed the ocean and landed in Connecticut, but two years later went to Philadelphia, and a year later to St. Louis, spending some time as pastry cook on a steamboat plying between St. Louis and New Orleans. In 1854 he went to Kansas, where he remained until 1858, when he located in the Cherokee Nation, Colorado, and drove a Government team for eighteen months during the war. He went to Fort Smith in 1863, where he worked at the baker's trade for the Union army until the close of the war, also running a private bakery. In 1866 he was married to Martha E. Spangler, who was born in Arkansas in 1842, and by whom he became the father of ten children: F. W., Elizabeth G., Iva J., Mary B., Onie, Anna, Tamar, Dollie, Hazel and Henry, all of whom reside with their parents. Mr. Hink located on his present farm of 180 acres in 1876. He has sixty acres under cultivation and eighty acres in meadow. He is a member of the I. O. O. F., and in his political views is a Democrat. Mrs. Hink's parents, George and Susan Spangler, were born in the “Buckeye State,” and were farmers by occupation. Only three of their nine children are living; Mrs. Hink and two sisters--Mrs. Rebecca Nijong and Mrs. Ann E. Bourland.