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BRAXTON COUNTY WEST VIRGINIA - BIOS: HINES, Cary C.
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Submitted to the West Virginia Biographies Project by:
Valerie & Tommy Crook
vfcrook@trellis.net
September 24, 1999
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The History of West Virginia, Old and New
Published 1923, The American Historical Society, Inc.,
Chicago and New York, Volume III,
pg. 269-270
Braxton County
CARY C. HINES. A leading member of the legal fraternity
of Braxton County, who has also been identified prominently
with civic and political affairs, is Cary C. Hines, engaged
in the successful practice of his calling at Sutton for a
period of a quarter of a century. Mr. Hines was born at the
mouth of Wolf Creek, near Alderson, Monroe County, West
Virginia, March 10, 1874, the ninth son of Joseph Powell
and Lucy (Alderson) Hines.
Joseph Powell Hines was also born near the mouth of
Wolf Creek, in 1831, and died at Rock Camp, Monroe
County, in 1904. His father, William Hines, was a son of
Charles and Margaret Hines, who settled on Wolf Creek,
now in Monroe County, in which locality Charles Hines
died in 1804 and his widow, some years afterward. Joseph
Powell Hines married Lucy Alderson, who was born at
Alderson, West Virginia, in 1831, and died at Rock Camp,
Monroe County, in 1898. She was a daughter of John
Alderson and a granddaughter of Rev. John Alderson, who
preached for the Baptist congregation at Linnville Creek,
Virginia, in 1775. After two missionary trips to Green-
brier Valley in the year 1777 Rev. John Alderson came here
permanently and built his house in the Town of Alderson,
on the present site of the Alderson Hotel. He was the
founder of the Greenbrier Valley Baptist Church at Alder-
son and of the Baptist Church in the Greenbrier Valley, and
was a man widely known for his good deeds and earnest
work as a spiritual guide and advisor. He died at Alderson,
which town takes its name from his grandson, George Alder-
son, now living there in the eighty-eighth year of his age,
who in his younger days was a member of the State Legis-
lature when the capital was located at Wheeling. To
Joseph Powell and Lucy (Alderson) Hines there were born
ten sons, as follows: Jesse E., engaged in farming at
Willow Bend, this state; Charles A., a farmer of Cashmere,
West Virginia; Robert L., of Linside, Monroe County, en-
gaged in farming; George R., carrying on agricultural
operations at Cower, near St. Joseph, Missouri; Thomas
H., who is farming at Mound City, Missouri; James Elmer,
of Jackson, Ohio; John Powell, who followed farming at
Mound City, Missouri, until his death, December 16, 1921;
Samuel Oscar, formerly a traveling salesman for the Sutton
Grocery Company, who died at Johns Hopkins Hospital,
Baltimore, Maryland, December 7, 1901; Gary C., of this
review; and William E., a graduate of the law school of the
West Virginia University, class of 1891, and a senior mem-
ber of the law firm of Hines & Kelly at Sutton.
Gary C. Hines received his early education in the public
schools of Monroe County, following which he took a course
at the Concord Normal School, Athens, West Virginia. Next
he taught three terms of public school at Red Sulphur
Springs, Monroe County, and then entered the law school of
the West Virginia University, from which he was duly
graduated with his degree as a member of the class of 1897.
In that year he formed a partnership for the practice of his
profession at Sutton with R. G. Linn and W. E. R. Byrne,
of Charleston, West Virginia, under the firm style of Linn,
Byrne & Hines, which connection continued until the year
1908, when Mr. Byrne withdrew from the firm and W. F.
Morrison, Jr., was admitted, the style then becoming Linn,
Hines & Morrison. This partnership was terminated in
1919, when Mr. Linn died, but the firm of Hines & Mor-
rison continued until June 1, 1921, when Mr. Morrison
severed his connection therewith, and since that time Mr.
Hines has ben practicing alone at Sutton, Mr. Morrison
having removed to Charleston.
Mr. Hines has a large and representative practice and is
accounted one of the leaders of the Braxton County bar,
where he has been connected with numerous important cases.
He has also been identified with public affairs as a prom-
inent figure in the ranks of the democratic party. In the
democratic primary of 1904 he was a candidate for the
office of prosecuting attorney, but was defeated for the
nomination. In 1908 be was again a candidate for the same
office and received the nomination in the democratic con-
vention without opposition. Elected to the office in the
following fall, he served capably as prosecuting attorney
of Braxton County from January 1, 1909, to January 1,
1913. Mr. Hines has a number of business interests, being
president of the Central Utilities Company, which furnishes
light, power and water to Sutton besides operating the ice
plant, is a stockholder and director of the Sutton Grocery
and Milling Company, a wholesale grocery concern doing
business at Sutton, and is attorney for the Bank of Sutton,
all of which enterprises he assisted in organizing. He be-
longs to the Knights of Pythias and is a Knight Templar
Mason and a member of Beni-Kedem Temple of the Mystic
Shrine at Charleston.
On January 16, 1900, Mr. Hines was united in marriage
in Braxton County with Miss Elizabeth Morrison, daughter
of Wellington F. and Sarah E. (Berry) Morrison. Mr. and
Mrs. Hines have one daughter, Virginia Ruth, born De-
cember 5, 1901, who graduated from the Sutton High School
in 1918, at the age of seventeen years, attended one term at
the Ohio Wesleyan University at Delaware, Ohio, and spent
two years at the Ward-Belmont School, Nashville, Tennes-
see, from which she was graduated as a member of the class
of 1922.
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