“ HINMAN, Miss Ida, litterateur and journalist, was born in Keokuk, Iowa. Sir Edward Hinman. the progenitor of the family in America, was an officer of the body-guard of Charles I. of England. After the king's death, having risked all for royalty, he came to America and settled in Connecticut. He was the father of two sons, from the oldest of whom Miss Hinman's family is descended. Her father. B. B. Hinman, was for years a successful merchant in Keokuk. Her mother, who before marriage was Miss Ellen E. Fithian. is a woman of rare strength of character. ”