California Biographies, San Joaquin Valley

Transcribed by Peggy Hooper

This file is part of the California Genealogy & History Archives
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cagha/index.htm

Source:
History of the state of California and biographical record of the San Joaquin 
Valley, California. An historical story of the state's marvelous growth from 
its earliest settlement to the present time.
Prof. James Miller Guinn , A. M.
The Chapman Publishing Co., Chicago 1905
Notes: Missing Page: 865-866,983-984,1175-1176


 ISAAC P. HINES. M. D. Not alone through his private practice, but also through his connection 
with the Agnew hospital in Fresno, Dr. I. B. Hines has gained a wide reputation. The hospital 
was opened in March, 1903, and is situated at No. 634 I street. Its appliances are such as belong 
to the most modern buildings of the kind. A specialty is made of surgery and the equipment for 
the operating table is complete. In connection with the hospital Dr. Hines built and fitted up the 
Fresno Swimming Baths, where may be had Russian, Turkish, medicated and electro-chemical 
baths ; also a swimming pool, 25x30 feet in dimensions. 

The ancestry of Dr. Hines is traced to Virginia, whence William Hines removed to Tennessee in a 
very early day and there operated a mill and cleared a farm. Isaac Bright Hines, a son of William, 
was born at Gap Creek, Knox county, Tennessee, September 15, 1795, and through his active 
life engaged in the milling business and the manufacture of lumber. During the War of 1812 he 
served in the American army, the most important engagement in which he participated being 
the memorable battle of New Orleans under General Jackson. Archelaus D. C. Hines, son of this 
veteran, was born March 20, 1825. in Knox county, Tenn. He followed in his father's footsteps in 
the selection of an occupation, but, in addition to milling and manufacturing lumber, he also 
conducted farm pursuits. About 1892 he relinquished his business interests and came to 
California, since which time he has made Fresno his home. At this writing (1904) he is seventy-
nine years of age. His wife, who bore the maiden name of Pressure Margaret Bowman, was 
born November 7, 1835, at Calhoun, Tenn., of German descent, and is still living. Her father, 
Rev. John N. Bowman, a native of Tennessee, followed farming as a means of livelihood, but 
gave his attention largely to ministerial work in the Methodist Episcopal Church in Alabama and 
Tennessee, and was one of those pioneer circuit riders who exerted so large an influence upon 
the earn settlers of our country. 

In the family of A. D. C. Hines there were six sons and three daughters all of whom except one 
son are still living. The surviving sons are as follows : I. B., of Fresno ; John Newton, a merchant 
of Fresno; Francis Marion, a rancher of Fresno county ; Samuel Bowman, who is connected with 
mercantile interests in Fresno ; and A. Don, who received the degree of M. D. from the Boston 
University School of Medicine and is now engaged in practice at San Jose. The three sisters, 
Edith M., Mary and Alice M., also reside in California. Dr. I. B. Hines was born eight miles from 
Knoxville, in Knox county, Tenn., July 5, 1856. As a boy he attended the Knoxville schools and 
assisted in the lumber-mill and on the home farm. In 1 88 1 he was graduated from the 
University of Tennessee with the degree of A. B., and the following year received the degree 
of B. S. For five years afterward he was employed as an observer in the weather bureau of the 
Engineering Corps of the United States army, being successively stationed at New York City, 
Sandy Hook, N. J., and Block Island, R. I. At the expiration of his time he received an honorable 
discharge. 

During 1887 Dr. Hines began his medical education in the Boston University School of Medicine, 
from which he was graduated in 1890 with the degree of M. D. For some years after graduating 
he remained in Boston, and while there had charge of the infirmary connected with the 
Massachusetts General Homeopathic Hospital. December 18, 1894. he arrived in Fresno, on a 
visit to his parents, and being so favorably impressed with the country and its possibilities he 
decided to make California his future home. In 1897 he acted as surgeon for the Fresno Flume 
and Irrigating Company's mills at Shaver, Fresno county, since which time he has given his 
attention wholly to professional work in his home town, where he resides at No. 333 
Blackstone avenue. He still retains membership in the Massachusetts Homeopathic Medical 
Association. Since coming to Fresno he has been a member of the Chamber of Commerce. In 
religion he is an adherent of the Baptist Church, while in politics he votes with the Democratic 
party. While stationed on Block Island he was made a Mason in Atlantic Lodge No. 31, F. & A. 
M., and later, in Boston, was admitted to Roxbury Lodge No. 211, I. O. O. F., with which he still 
holds membership. His fraternal connections also include membership in the Woodmen of the 
World.