The History of the Yakima Valley, Washington, Comprising Yakima, Kittitas and
Benton Counties, The S.J. Clarke Publishing Co., 1919, Volume II, page 97

CHARLES H. HINMAN.

Charles H. Hinman, a prominent fruit man of Yakima, who is now manager of the
Fruit Growers' Association, was born in Missouri, January 7, 1871, a son of
Henry V. and Jane L. Hinman. His parents removed to Kansas in 1873 and after
twenty years' residence in the Sunflower state came to Washington in 1893,
settling in Kittitas county, while subsequently they came to Yakima county. The
father was register of the land office and passed away in Yakima in 1905, but
the mother still survives.

Charles H. Hinman acquired a public school education in Kansas and supplemented
it by study in the Kansas State Agricultural College. He taught school in
Washington for twelve years, becoming one of the successful and able educators
of the state, imparting readily and clearly to others the knowledge that he had
acquired. In 1902 he took up his abode in Yakima and became clerk in the land
office. While thus engaged he devoted his leisure to the reading of law and
entered the active practice of the profession as a land attorney, in which
connection he remained for several years. He afterward turned his attention to
the real estate business in connection with Ernest Woodcock and has contributed
much to the development of the countryside through the planting of orchards and
the sale of property well adapted to fruit production. He joined the fruit
growers' organization as a charter member and for about two years served as its
president, while in 1917 he became manager for the association and is now
filling that responsible and important position.

In 1911 Mr. Hinman was united in marriage to Mrs. Caroline Satterwhite, of
Sunnyside, Washington. He has four children, two by a former marriage: Charles
Lee, who is now in the State University; and Lorene. The children of his second
marriage are Carroll and Charlene.

Mr. Hinman is connected with the Woodmen of the World and the Knights of
Pythias. In politics he is a republican, and while not a politician in the sense
of office seeking, he has served as county superintendent of schools in Kittitas
county. He belongs to the Presbyterian church and to the Commercial Club and his
activities and interests have always been along lines which have been
far-reaching in purpose and result. He stands for public benefit and has done
much to bring about progress and improvement in the Yakima valley.

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Submitted to the Washington Bios Project in December 2007 by Jeffrey L. Elmer.
Submitter has no additional information about the subject of this article.