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A Quick Summary Of Kirt's Parents, Grandparents and Other Ancestors
Kirt and his father, Homer Henry Hine (1874-1958), descend from Thomas Hine (about 1621-1698) who first appears in Milford, Connecticut around 1639 after having emigrated from England. Homer was born and raised in Poland, Ohio (near Youngstown) where his father, Samuel Hine (1816-1893), was a prominent merchant and landowner. Samuel's father was Homer Hine (1776-1856), a Yale educated attorney and one of the early settlers of what was then called the Connecticut Western Reserve (now eastern Ohio) and who settled near what is now Youngstown in about 1801. Homer Henry Hine's mother (wife of Samuel Hine) was Emma Caroline Kirtland-Hine (1841-1914) who descended from another prominent early Western Reserve settler, Turhand Kirtland (1755-1844), who was a descendent of Nathanial Kirtland (1616-1686) who came from England to Lynn, Massachusetts in 1635. Turhand Kirtland first explored the Western Reserve in 1798 and moved his family there in 1803 when the area was on the far western frontier of the United States.
Kirt's grandparents, Samuel and Emma Kirtland-Hine, had 5 children who were raised in the family home at what is now 441 South Main St. in Poland, OH (and was formerly known as the Old Pittsburgh Road). The home had been built around 1845 by Emma's uncle, George Kirtland. Samuel and Emma's home would remain in the Hine family for about 90 years (from the mid 1860's till 1955 when daughter Ellen Louise Hine passed away). Around 2003 the home, which is now a local historical landmark, underwent a major restoration by it's new owners. The children of Samuel and Emma Hine were: Samuel Kirtland Hine ("Kirt", 1867-1942), Ellen Louise Hine ("Nell", 1869-1955), Alfred Blakelee Hine ("Alf", 1872-1942), Homer Henry Hine (1874-1958) and Charles Potter Hine (1877-1942). Homer was Kirt Hine's father and the others his uncles and aunt. He would come to know them well even though he grew up many miles away from Ohio in Seattle. The Poland, Ohio Hines were a tightly knit family.
All of the Samuel and Emma's children were well educated and went on to be prominent and successful in their respective fields of endeavor. Samuel Kirtland Hine attended Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (Troy, NY), became a respected industrialist and businessman in eastern Ohio and in his will left the Village of Poland a significant sum of money for the maintenance of local parks. Alfred also attended Rensselaer and became half owner and vice president of the McKelvy-Hine Company, a Pittsburgh based construction and engineering company which built railroad bridges and the like. Charles obtained both undergraduate and law degrees from Yale University and became a founding partner in the Cleveland law firm of Thompson, Hine, & Florey which today is still a large Cleveland firm. Ellen (“Nell”) attended St. Margaret's School in Waterbury, CT and provided volunteer support services for 3 years in France during World War I. She never married and lived in the Poland, OH home from her childhood till her death in 1955.
Homer Henry Hine (Kirt's father) was perhaps the most adventurous of the children of Samuel and Emma. After obtaining a degree in electrical engineering from the Case School of Applied Science in Cleveland, OH (today known as Case Western Reserve University) he left his parents and siblings in Ohio and headed west to Seattle, Washington in 1901 at the age of 27. There, when Seattle was not much more that a large frontier town, he became a superintendent of the Seattle Independent Telephone Company and as such was responsible for installing the wires throughout Seattle which would bring the new telephone technology then sweeping the nation to its citizens. After a number of years with the phone company Homer left to head out on his own and shortly before his son Kirt was born in 1916 purchased a Dodge automobile dealership about 50 miles north of Seattle in Mt. Vernon. Apparently however his wife Rose didn't like Mt. Vernon much and shortly after Kirt was born the family sold the Dodge dealership and moved back to Seattle where Homer obtained a half interest in the Salmon Bay Sand and Gravel Company which he would keep until his death. In spite of only having vision in one eye as a result of a childhood accident, Homer was an active outdoorsman and he loved to camp, fish, and hunt, hobbies he enjoyed his entire life and which may partly explain his move to the relative wilderness of the Pacific Northwest. For several years around 1904 Homer lived on a large, spacious, and relatively luxurious house boat on Lake Washington near Madison Park in Seattle with 7 other bachelors. This rented floating home included a large fireplace in the living room and a piano. The 8 bachelors employed a full time live-in Chinese cook. In later years Homer would take his family on vacations to isolated lakeside cabins on Washington's Olympic Peninsula.
Kirt's mother was Rose Belle Turner-Hine (1875-1967). She was born in Walla Walla, Washington but grew up on her parents cattle ranch near Grace, Idaho (southwest of Soda Springs). Rose was primarily educated by traveling the 80 miles south from the cattle ranch to Logan, UT for part of each year for about 8 years to attend the New Jersey Academy since an education was hard to come by anywhere near her frontier southeast Idaho home. She eventually traveled around rural Idaho and taught piano and organ in private homes before marrying her first husband, Guy B. Higgins, at or near the family cattle ranch in 1896. Rose and Guy had no children and for unknown reasons ended up relocating to the Seattle, WA area in the early 1900's. Guy Higgins would become a close friend of Homer Hine and died from appendicitis while on a hunting trip with Homer and other friends around 1908. Homer married the widow in 1910. Rose's parents were Edward John Turner (1845-1916) and Martha Catherine "Kitty" Hillman-Turner (1854-1935). Edward, the son of John Turner who emigrated from England, was probably born in Canada and was raised in Harmony Township near Janesville, Wisconsin. He attended Milton College (Milton, WI) in the mid 1860's. Census records show that Martha was born in Missouri (which included what is today Kansas). Martha came to the northwest frontier with her parents however what brought Edward west from Wisconsin is not known. They are said to have met on a wagon train and were married in what was then the Washington Territory around 1873. Their first two children, Rose and Edward, were born in or near Walla Walla, Washington in 1875 and 1877 respectively. In 1877 the Turner family moved to southeast Idaho where Edward took up cattle ranching on the sparsely populated western frontier. 1880 and 1900 census records show the family in the Gentile Valley, Idaho, about 5 miles south west of today's town of Grace. Edward and Martha's other children were born in Idaho and included Frederick, Lillian, and Percy. Recently uncovered
historical records indicate that E.J. Turner, along with other Grace area
ranchers, founded and constructed the Last Chance Canal to provide irrigation in
this otherwise arid area of Idaho. The canal's name derives from the
fact that the ranchers felt the canal, which had undergone several
unsuccessfully construction attempts over a number of years, was their "last chance" to survive and
build economic futures for themselves in the area. E.J. Turner
served on the board of directors and as the first president of the Last Chance Canal Company from 1899 to
1904. Today the Last Chance Canal still irrigates over 36,000 acres of southeast
Idaho.
Edward and Martha were divorced in 1903. Martha would move to western Idaho where she lived with some of her younger children near Weiser. Later she would move with her sons Edward and Frederick to the town of Jerome in central Idaho where she passed away in 1935. She is buried in the Jerome Cemetery.
Edward John Turner stayed in the Gentile Valley near Grace
and in 1911 married Marian Adelaide Cole. Edward died on October 31, 1916
in San Diego, California where he and Marian were either vacationing or had
possible just moved to retire. He is buried near his childhood home in
Janesville, Wisconsin in the Oak Hill Cemetery. More About Kirt's Parents Homer and Rose Hine, having married in 1910 in Spokane, WA, had their first child, a daughter they named Ruth Emma, on December 28th, 1911 in Seattle and photographic evidence suggests that the Hine family moved into a new home in 1912 at 707 23rd Ave. North in the Capital Hill area of Seattle. Around 1916 the Hines moved to Mt. Vernon for a year or two where their second (and last) child , Edward Kirtland Hine ("Kirt"), was born and where Homer temporarily owned the Dodge automobile dealership. It is apparent that the family did not sell their Seattle home during the period they spent in Mt. Vernon because the moved back into it after the brief adventure into the auto business. By 1927 business must have been good at Homer's half owned Salmon Bay Sand and Gravel Company because in this year the Hine family moved into a large brand new home at 1204 Parkside Drive in Broadmoor, an exclusive and gated Seattle community. Both of the Hine children attended private high schools, Ruth the Stevens School and Kirt the Lakeside School. The Great Depression apparently squeezed the family finances but Homer was able to keep the kids in school and hold onto the home in Broadmoor. By the mid 1930's when he had reached his early 60's Homer became semi-retired perhaps partly due to the slowdown in business caused by the depression. He spent a part of each day for many years starting in the 1930's at the exclusive Arctic Club, an adventurers and gentleman's social club not far from his home in Seattle. Homer passed away at the age of 84 in 1958. Rose passed away in 1967 at the age of 92 having lived in the Broadmoor home for 40 years. Both are buried in the Riverside Cemetery, Poland, Ohio with Homer's parents and many other Hine and Kirtland ancestors.
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