San Diego county, California; a record of settlement, organization, progress and achievement . tizens. He was the founder of the great Spreckels Brothers Com-mercial Company and is now vice president and owner of a third interest. Hewas born in Urbana, Ohio, July 12, 1832, and is a son of Thomas S. and SarahD. Cavileer Hinde of Virginia. His father was a progressive and able businessman and lived for many years in Mount Carmel, Illinois, a town which hefounded and laid out in 1815, and in the affairs of which he took an active inter-est until his death. Captain Charles T. Hinde acquired his ea
San Diego county, California; a record of settlement, organization, progress and achievement . tizens. He was the founder of the great Spreckels Brothers Com-mercial Company and is now vice president and owner of a third interest. Hewas born in Urbana, Ohio, July 12, 1832, and is a son of Thomas S. and SarahD. Cavileer Hinde of Virginia. His father was a progressive and able businessman and lived for many years in Mount Carmel, Illinois, a town which hefounded and laid out in 1815, and in the affairs of which he took an active inter-est until his death. Captain Charles T. Hinde acquired his early education in the Mount Carmelpublic schools and later attended Indiana Asbury University at Greencastle,Indiana, for one year and a half. After laying aside his books he went to Vin-cennes, Indiana, and there obtained a position as clerk in a dry-goods holding this situation for one year he returned to Mount Carmel, havingbeen called there by the death of his mother, and until 1850 he clerked in a localgeneral merchandise store. When he left Mount Carmel for the second time. /^^ ^C^Qt^ ^O HISTORY OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY 21 he took a stage to St. Louis and after a few weeks pushed on to St. Paul, Min-nesota, having been forced to leave his original location on account of the ravagesof cholera. In St. Paul he took charge of the territorial library for one year andspent a similar period as clerk in the Indian trading store. He became identi-fied with river navigation at the end of this time, engaging as clerk on a boatwhich operated between St. Louis and St. Paul, but he remained in this officeonly one year, resigning in order to engage with the Galena, Dubuque & Packet Company, which later became one of the largest transportationcompanies in that part of the country. Mr. Hinde here made rapid advance-ment and was at length promoted to the position of captain, which he held until1862. In 1862 he went to Louisville, Kentucky, and took command of a steamerrunning
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