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SUPPLEMENTARY BIOGRAPHIES.
1844.
EBENEZER PIERCE HINDS.
Private 7th Maine Vols. (Infantry), August 21, 1861. Died August I7,
1862, on board steamer "State of Maine," of disease contracted in the
service.
BENEZER PIERCE HINDS was born, according to
the entry made by himself in the Class-Book, at Livermore, Maine, June 30, 1821. He was the son of Ebenezer
and Louisa (Pierce) Hinds, and the fifth in descent from Ebenezer Hinds, who was, in 1776, a Presbyterian preacher in
Middleboro', Mass. He was also the fifth of the family who,
from father to son, bore the same baptismal name. Middleboro' continued to be the residence of the family till 1801,
when the grandfather and father of the subject of this memoir
emigrated to Maine. His father was, for many years, a master
ship-builder at Pittston, in that State, where he is still living.
On entering college he first joined the class which graduated
in 1843, but remained only during the Freshman year, when
he left Cambridge and resumed school-teaching in order to
provide the means of completing his college course; for he
had already, before going to college, "taught a great many
common schools." On returning he joined the Class of 1844,
in the second term of their Junior year, and remained with
them till they graduated. His rank in the class was more than
respectable. According to the printed order of Exercises for
Commencement, it was "above the average in Greek," while
in Mathematics he had attained "high distinction."
It has not been easy to trace his career after graduation.
He was always eccentric and reticent to excess, and his own