Taken from the biographies listed for the Jefferson Township, Tipton Co.:

LORENZO D. HINKLE, a farmer of Jefferson Township, was born in Pendleton County, Va., May 14, 1838; his parents were Joab and Mary (Lawrence) Hinkle, both natives of Virginia, Joab being born November 27, 1796, of German descent; married, November 19, 1816, and died April 14, 1859. Mary was born May 1, 1794, and died April 23, 1861. They located in Jefferson Township, Tipton County, Ind., 1851, and both died in their new home; our subject is the last of a family of nine children, seven of whom are yet living, six in Indiana and one in Virginia. He was reared on a farm, and, in his limited school course, never knew any reader except Robinson Crusoe, until he reached is fifteenth year. Coming to a new country did not improve his educational advantages. July 25, 1861, he was married to Miss Mary E. Teter. She was born in Hamilton County, Ind., January 12, 1842, and is the third of a family of seven children born to Jacob and Melvina (Harper) Teter, who located in Hamilton County in 1839. The former died in 1853, aged thirty-five years, and the latter in 1880, aged sixty-five. After his marriage our subject remained at the old homestead, taking care f his parents until their death. His marriage has been crowned by the birth of seven children, five of whom are yet living, viz.: Mrs. Laura E. Vandevender, born October l, 1863; Rosa Lee, born July 13,1867; Virginia Malvina, born June 5, 1869; Jerome Wesley, born November 22,1871, Oscar Harper, born December 28, 1873; the others died during infancy. In 1863, he sold his farm in Tipton County and bought one in Hamilton County, remaining there until 1877, when he purchased the old Teter farm, which had been entered prior to any other north of he Reserve line. On this farm he now resides. It is in a high state of cultivation, and is one of the best in the township; himself and wife are both members of the Wesleyan Methodist Episcopal Church, she having been identified therewith since her sixteenth year, and he for about eight years. He is a man of enterprise and public spirit, and has succeeded by s industry in accumulating a competency for his old age and the benefit of his family. Politically, he is a Republican, although his political views are governed by a wise discrimination as to men who claim his suffrage.