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1844.
Ebenezer Pierce Hinds.
Private 7th Maine Vols. (Infantry), August 21, 1861.
died August 17, 1862, on board steamer State of Maine, of disease contracted in the service.
Ebenezer Pierce Hinds was born, according to the entry made by himself in the Class-Book, at Livermore, Maine, June 30, 1821.
He was the son of Ebenezer and Louisa (Pierce) Hinds, and the fifth in descent from Ebenezer Hinds, who was, in 1776, a Presbyterian preacher in Middleboroa, Mass.
He was also the fifth of the family who, from father to son, bore the same baptismal name.
Middleboroa continued to be the residence of the family till 1801, when the grandfather and father of the subject of this memoir emigrated to Maine.
His father was, for many years, a master ship-builder at Pittston, in that State, where he is still living.
On entering college he first joined the class which graduated in 1843, but remained only during the Freshman year, when he left Cambridge