Representative George Wesley Hinkle View All Years

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George Wesley Hinkle

Wayne County

The member from Wayne county this winter is the Hon. George W. Hinkle, a prominent physician of Harvard. Dr. Hinkle was born in Jackson county, Ind., September 30, 1849. At the age of 4 years he came with his parents to Jefferson county, Iowa, where he resided till the fall of 1875, when he removed to Wayne county, where he has since resided. For five years he practiced medicine in Warsaw, that county, then located in Harvard, his present home. Ho is one of the leading and best known physicians in the county. Dr. Hinkle is a graduate of the College of Physicians at Keokuk, from which institution he graduated in 1875. He enlisted in Company I, Forty-fifth Iowa infantry, when he was but 15 years old, and served six months, being one of the youngest soldiers in the army at that time. He is now commander of the G. A. R. post of Harvard, and has been an influential member of that body since it was organized in 1884. The doctor has always been an ardent republican, but has never held a public office from the fact that he has never asked for one. He is the proud possessor of 101 volumes of the "Official Record of the Union and Confederate Armies of the War of the Rebellion," presented to him by ex-Senator James F. Wilson. He was married to Miss Melvina E. Axline, September 30, 1879, and they are the parents of twin daughters. Dr. Hinkle belongs to no church organization, and to no lodge but the G. A. R. He has a fine home in Harvard, a large practice, and is a loyal citizen. For the office to which the republicans elected him he has special qualifications, firmly convinced as he is as to his convictions in legislation. He is probably the tallest man in the Twenty-seventh General Assembly, being six feet and two and a half inches in height.

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