Clark B. Hines
As the needle of the compass points to the north; as the Mussulman journeys to Mecca, so the writer, often turns to Bellville, the play-ground of his youth, and "steals awhile away" and journeys thither to see the friends and associates of other years. Yielding to this impulse, I boarded a B.&O. Smith train last Monday forenoon and was soon upon my native heath, and went to the post office as of yore, where the people congregate upon the arrival of the mall, and stand around and talk while, it is being distributed. Different terms are used in different places to convey the same idea. In Mansfield the mall is "worked" in Bellville it is "distributed", in New Philadelphia it is "changed" and in Steubenville it is "assorted". After shaking hands with O.H. Gurney, Henry Howard, Calvin Robinson, Lieut. Donel, Gid Olin, John Weaver, Comrade Koerber, John Bunyan Edwards, Philip Adams, David Palm, et al., I dined at the Hotel Norris, and then started out to ascertain if there had been prospecting done recently in the gold region, but was informed by Dr. Lee that the situation remains in status quo, awaiting spring developments. I had intended to call on 'Squire Price, editor of the Messenger, but happened to drop into the law office of Clark B. Hines -- "Burt" as he is familiarly called by his old friends -- and talked there until too near train time to go elsewhere. In the years agone we lived next door to the Hines family, and as boy and man have known Clark B. Hines over 30 years and am always pleased to meet him, for aside from his social qualities, his life is an interesting one. The only child of wealthy parents, he had good advantages in his youth which he was not slow to improve and acquired a liberal education. The natural trend of his mind was to the law, but there were obstacles in his path --- not, however, like those which many of us encountered, for his were those of wealth, not poverty. He had business interests to look after, farms to superintend and a store to manage, all of which he did successfully, but he did not permit their cares nor allurements to detract his mind from the course he had marked out, and Blackstone, was not neglected, and the result is he has been admitted not only to the state, but to the United Sates courts, and has a practice of which any young attorney might well feel proud. While Mr. Hines is well equipped for general practice, I noticed many volumes in his library on corporation law, and opine that he will some time seek a larger field, or rather that the field will seek him. Let me whisper a word to the ladies: Mr. Hines is aged about 35, and is single. To "swipe" a photograph from a lawyer's desk might be called picturesque larceny. -- A.J. Baughman.
From The Mansfield Semi-Weekly News, January 4, 1898, Vol. 14, No. 1
Clark B. Hines was born in Bellville, Feb. 5, 1860. His father, the late B.F. Hines, married Mary J. Armstrong. The latter is still living. B.F. Hines was a successful business man and accumulated considerable property. Clark B. Hines is a bachelor and lives with his mother in the house in which he was born. Amid the refining influence of a home of plenty, young Hines was reared to manhood. He attended the public schools at Bellville when he was a boy. Later he was a pupil in the Mansfield High School, after which he took a college course at Cleveland. read law with Cummings & McBride. Was admitted to the bar in 1897. Mr. Hines has elegantly furnished office rooms, a good library and is a member of the American and International Law associations. He owns a number of good farms, and his law practice --< illegible >-- Knox and Morrow counties, as well. Mr. Hines has been mayor of Bellville and as boy and man has had the confidence of his fellow citizens.
From The Bellville Messenger: May 28 1903, Vol. 11, No. 21
