Thomas Hinde
Dr Thomas Hinde | |
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King's College London School of Medicine | |
Occupation | Physician |
Spouse | Mary Todd Hubbard |
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Relatives | Charles T. Hinde (grandson) Edmund C. Hinde (grandson) Frederick Hinde Zimmerman (great-grandson) Harry Hinde (great-grandson) Richard Southgate (son-in-law) William Wright Southgate (grandson) |
Doctor Thomas Hinde (July 10, 1737 – September 28, 1828) was
Overview
Thomas Hinde is the patriarch of the Hinde family in the United States. His youngest son, Thomas S. Hinde, was a notable Methodist minister and businessman, Charles T. Hinde, his grandson, was a shipping magnate, and Edmund C. Hinde, another grandson, was an adventurer. The Kavanaugh and Southgate branches of his family held elected office and positions of leadership in the Methodist church.
As personal physician to Patrick Henry, Hinde played a critical role in the American Revolutionary War through his vaccinations against smallpox and treatment of wounded soldiers. For his service he received a large land grant in Kentucky, where he moved with his family. Hinde was northern Kentucky's first physician, and a memorial was erected in Campbell County, Kentucky to honor his services to the state. He died in 1828 aged 91, which was unusually old for the time. According to Otto Juettner in 1909, who was a famous medical doctor and medical historian, Hinde "never wrote a line in his life."[1] His life has been described as being like a "romance", and he was called a "patriarch" to the American medical profession.[2]
Early life
Hinde was born in
Death of General Wolfe
Wolfe died in Hinde's arms during the 1759
Copies of The Death of General Wolfe by West are currently in the collection of the National Gallery of Canada, the Royal Ontario Museum (Canadiana art collection), the William L. Clements Library at the University of Michigan and at Ickworth House, Suffolk, England.
After Quebec
After the fall of Quebec, Hinde returned briefly to England. Peace with France was reached in 1763, and Hinde then returned to Virginia and settled. He formed a close friendship with an unnamed Virginian who persuaded him to settle in a place called Hobbs Hole in Essex County, Virginia and practice medicine. Another source states that an aged physician in Virginia wrote to Dr Thomas Brooke, Hinde's mentor, asking Brooke to send a young physician to assist him in his practice. Brooke reportedly choose Hinde and "earnestly advised" him to "avail himself of the situation which was offered". Hinde accepted,[12] but moved soon after to settle in Newton, now in West Virginia, where he met his wife. After their wedding Hinde moved again and settled in Hanover County, Virginia.[13]
Physician to Patrick Henry
In 1765, after he settled in Virginia, Hinde became acquainted with Patrick Henry, one of the founding fathers of the United States, Samuel Davis, and Lord Dunmore.[14] Two years later he married Mary T. Hubbard, settled near Henry, and became his family physician. His association with Henry and settlement in Virginia helped Hinde become acquainted with many of the leading members of society during the period. When Hinde first met Hubbard, he found her to "possess a great flow of animal spirits, full of humor, gay and lively inner temperament and disposition, with strong powers of mind, and at the same time active and sociable". The couple married on September 24, 1767.[15] According to a biography written by George Coles in 1857, Henry's statesmanlike eloquence and political principles made a strong impression on Hinde and shifted him from being a staunch royalist to a "sturdy republican".[16]
Hinde took an active part in the American Revolutionary War, serving as a surgeon with Patrick and in various campaigns and battles. At the time of the 1775 Gunpowder Incident, Hinde was Chief Surgeon for Patrick Henry. His involvement in it was the turning point that led him to embrace the cause of the oppressed colonies against Lord Dunmore and the English royalty.[17] The Gunpowder Incident was a conflict early in the American Revolutionary War between Lord Dunmore, the Royal Governor of the Colony of Virginia, and militia led by Henry.[18] Hinde originally planned to take a front-line post in Henry's regiment, but when Henry was elected Governor, Hinde was instead appointed to inoculate all members of the continental service. Because of insufficient funds in the Continental Army, Hinde was forced to cover the costs of inoculations, which "seriously impaired his private fortune".[19] One source states that Hinde amputated limbs during the war by the "cart-load".[20] After the war, Hinde continued to live in Hanover County for many years, primarily practicing medicine.[21]
Military land grant
After the American Revolutionary War, Hinde moved his family from Virginia to Kentucky, having received a large land grant for his services in the war. One source describes the land grant as follows:
At the close of the war, having drawn no part of his salary, and from his great skill as a surgeon having endeared himself to the Virginians, in settling up his accounts he was presented with a land warrant, to be located in lands selected in Kentucky, leaving a blank within the warrant for the number of acres to filled by Dr Hinde himself. The blank was filled with twenty thousand, and placed in the hands of Patrick Henry to select and locate the lands.[22]
For undisclosed reasons, Henry was unable to complete the land grant to Hinde due to surveying difficulties, who then used his nephew Hubbard Taylor to go to Kentucky, find the location, and complete the transaction. Hinde gave Taylor half of the lands for this service. The land was in Clark County, Kentucky, between Winchester and Lexington.[23]
Conversion to Methodism
During his early years in England, Hinde was a member of the
In 1798,
At another time he was taking a morning walk and met
Gen. James Taylor, a relative by marriage, who said, 'Good-morning, doctor; where are you going?' 'I am going to heaven; where are you going, general?' The general, at that time, had some doubts about whether his road led to the same country, and made no reply; but it is hoped he found the way to everlasting life before he left the world.'[28]
One of Hinde's grandchildren states that Hinde built "little houses of sticks and wood" where he would pray. The grandchildren called them "Grandpa's prayer-houses". Hinde could be heard praying from a "considerable distance".[29]
Family
Hinde married Mary Todd Hubbard, the daughter of Benjamin Hubbard, an English merchant, and they were married for 61 years. They had eight children that lived to adulthood.[30] His daughter Ann Winston Hinde married Richard Southgate on July 30, 1799, in Newport, Kentucky. Hinde and his family were members of the Grace Methodist Episcopal Church in Newport, Kentucky.
One of Hinde's sons was
In his later life, Hinde lived with his daughter Mary McKinney of Newport, Kentucky.[32]
Notes
- ^ Juettner 1909, p. 107
- ^ Juettner 1909, p. 107
- ^ Methodist Magazine 1827, p. 260
- ^ Drake 1829, pp. 626–627
- ^ Methodist Magazine 1827, p. 261
- ^ Drake 1829, p. 627
- ^ Methodist Magazine 1827, p. 261
- ^ Methodist Magazine 1827, p. 261
- ^ Drake 1829, p. 627
- ^ Montagna, 80.
- ^ Drake 1829, p. 628
- ^ Drake 1829, p. 628
- ^ Methodist Magazine 1827, p. 261
- ^ Methodist Magazine 1827, p. 262
- ^ Methodist Magazine 1827, p. 262
- ^ Coles 1857, p. 336
- ^ Drake 1829, p. 628
- ^ Drake 1829, p. 629
- ^ Drake 1829, p. 629
- ^ Drake 1829, p. 234
- ^ Drake 1829, p. 629
- ^ Redford 1884, p. 24
- ^ Redford 1884, p. 24
- ^ Drake 1829, p. 629
- ^ Coles 1857, p. 336
- ^ Drake 1829, p. 629
- ^ Coles 1857, p. 336
- ^ Redford 1884, p. 24
- ^ Methodist Review 1871, p. 586
- ^ Drake 1829, p. 628
- ^ Nolan 2011, pp. 30–45
- ^ Redford 1884, p. 24
References
- Coles, George (1857). Heroines of Methodism:or, Pen and ink sketches of the mothers and daughters of the church (Google eBook). Carlton & Porter.
- Drake, Daniel (1829). The Western journal of the medical and physical sciences , Volume 2 (Google eBook). Daniel Drake.
- Juettner, Otto (1909). 1785–1909: Daniel Drake and his followers; historical and biographical sketches (Google eBook). Harvey Publishing Company.
- Methodist Magazine (1827). The Methodist Review (Google eBook). Methodist book concern.
- Methodist Review (1871). Methodist review, Volume 53 (Google eBook). Methodist book concern.
- Montagna, Dennis. "Benjamin West's The Death of General Wolfe: A Nationalist Narrative", American Art Journal (Volume 13, Number 2, 1981): 72–88.
- Nolan, John Matthew (2011). 2,543 Days: A History of the Hotel at the Grand Rapids Dam on the Wabash River. Lulu.
- Redford, Albert Henry (1884). Life and times of H.H. Kavanaugh: one of the bishops of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South (Google eBook). Albert Henry Redford.