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Surnames: Tinkham, Bonar, Galvin, Remley, Stout, Shants,
Classification: Biography
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This book has no cover, and no index, and no author. I bought it on Ebay; it just has the
insides, but it is full of Indiana biographies. I am not researching this family, just
thought I would share. I do not know anymore about these families or these surnames. NOTE:
I don’t know if there is any additional mention of this family in the book, it has no
index. I do not want to sell this book. I am typing the biographies from it.
Typed by Lora Radiches:
Surnames in this biography are: Tinkham, Bonar, Galvin, Remley, Stout, Shants,
HON. ADRIAN E. TINKHAM, former mayor of Hammond, is a lawyer who has practiced his
profession in that city since 1914. He is a native of Indiana, born near Columbia City,
Whitley County, January 22, 1879. The Tinkham family is one of the oldest in
Massachusetts, the ancestry having settled in the Massachusetts Bay Colony with Gov. John
Winthrop in 1630. The Tinkham family is still prominently represented in that state, one
of the members being Congressman Tinkham of Boston. The father of Mr. Tinkham of Hammond
was Rev. N. E. Tinkham, who was born and reared in Whitley County, a son of Joseph
Tinkham, who came from New Hampshire to Indiana and was a pioneer farmer in Whitley
County. He and his wife are buried at the Troy Chapel Cemetery in that county. Rev. N. E.
Tinkham was educated in Fort Wayne College and for half a century was an active minister
of the Methodist Church in the North Indiana and Northwest Indiana conferences. Among
other prominent pastorates were those in !
churches at Terre Haute, La Porte, Kewanna and Knox. He is now eighty years of age and a
resident of Hammond. His wife, Mary Bonar, was born in Ohio and was twelve years of age
when her parents moved to Indiana. She was well educated and taught school before her
marriage. There were three children: Adrian E.; C. Bonar, an attorney at Hammond and
associated with his brother in practice; and Frank, who died in Cuba during the Spanish
American war, when eighteen years of age. He was in service with the First Illinois
Volunteer Regiment. Adrian E. Tinkham attended public school at La Porte and Knox,
graduated from DePauw University at Greencastle in 1901 and completed his law course in
the Indiana Law School in 1912. He was admitted to the bar that year and for two years
practiced at Crawfordsville, and in 1914 he moved to Hammond, where his law offices are in
the First Trust Building. His firm is Tinkham & Galvin, his associates including
brothers, T. P. Galvin and Frank J. Ga!
lvin. Mr. Tinkham was honored with the office of mayor of Hammond from 1926 to 1930. He is
a member of the Lake County and Indiana Bar Associations, and his fraternal affiliations
are with the Masons, B. P. 0. Elks and Knights of Pythias. Mr. Tinkham is a director and
for several years was vice president of the Chamber of Commerce. He is chairman of the
Citizens Committee of Hammond for railroad track elevation, a notable movement backed by
business men and citizens to bring about the elimination of all the grade crossings in the
city. He is a member of the Sigma Nu fraternity, a Republican, and for a number of years
had an active part in the First Methodist Episcopal Church. Mr. Tinkham married at
Crawfordsville, January 1, 1901, Miss Grace Remley, daughter of William and Susan (Stout)
Remley. Her people were pioneers of Montgomery County, where her father was a farmer and
stock raiser. He died in 1905 and her mother in 1918, and they are buried in the Oak Hill
Cemetery at !
Crawfordsville. Mrs. Tinkham attended grammar and high schools at Crawfordsville, is a
member of the Methodist Church, the Woman’s Club, the Eastern Star. They have two
children, Robert R. and Joseph E., both graduates of the Hammond High School, Robert in
1919 and Joseph in 1926. Robert is now with the Northern Indiana Public Service Company at
Hammond. He married Eileen Shants, of Hammond. Joseph E. graduated from Wabash College at
Crawfordsville in 1980 and is now a law student at the University of Chicago.