BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES, BELMONT COUNTY, OHIO

"History of the Upper Ohio Valley" Vol. II, 1890.

Presented by Linda Fluharty from hard copies provided
by Mary Staley & Phyllis Slater.

Page 722.
 
JOHN W. HINGELEY, postmaster and a prominent merchant at Barnesville, Ohio, was
born in Allegheny county, Penn., in the city of Birmingham, February 10, 1852.
His parents were Ezra and Anna (Warwick) Hingeley, natives of Warwickshire,
England, who came to this country about 1850. The father is a minister of the
Methodist Episcopal church, who has filled some of the most prominent stations
in the Pittsburgh and east Ohio conferences. For four years he was presiding
elder of the New Philadelphia district and was delegate to the general con-
ference of 1884, and is at present located at Ravenna, Ohio. The Rev. E. Hingeley,
D. D., is a York and Scottish Rite Mason. The principal of this biographical sketch
was reared and educated in the cities of Steubenville and Pittsburgh. At the age
of sixteen he became a clerk in a mercantile house, serving in that capacity for
ten years, afterward representing the firm as a traveling salesman. In the month
of April, 1877, he came to Barnesville, and purchased the building and business 
then owned and operated by R. T. Cheney, and has since conducted a large business
in groceries and queensware. He is a stockholder in the Warren Gas company, of
which he is a director, has been a trustee of the Children's Home, was the secretary
of the board of education at the time the magnificent new school-house was erected,
and he is also an honored member of the following orders: Friendship lodge, No. 89,
of F. & A. M., and of the Barnesville Chapter, No. 69. Mr. Hingeley was appointed
postmaster November 15, 1886, and has filled the responsible position with great
efficiency ever since. He is a democrat. Miss Anna Mackall became his wife December
18, 1877. Their children are: Ezra Mackall, Benjamin Mackall, John West, and Joseph
B. Mr. and Mrs. Hingeley are consistent members of the Methodist Episcopal church,
of which Mr. Hingeley is a steward.