4 Spiller, 10 May 1994.
5 Park City Daily News (Bowling Green KY), 16 February 1920.
6 Spiller, 16 August 1993.
7 Descendants of Henry Hines, Sr., 10.
8 Spiller, 10 May 1994.
9 Edward Ludlow Hines, autobiographical paper, no. 1 and no. 2, n.d., n.p.
10 Spiller, 16 August 1993.
11 Times-Journal (Bowling Green KY), 16 February 1920.
12 Park City Daily News, 16 February 1920. The master commissioner and circuit court clerk are now two separate positions.
13 Spiller, 16 August 1993.
14 Ibid.
15 Milton MacKaye, “Where Shall We Stop For Dinner?,” The Saturday Evening Post (3 December 1938): 211:17.
16 Robert Spiller, 16 August 1993. Although his father was a Democratic Party stalwart, Duncan Hines was a lifelong member of the Republican Party. He never referred to President Harry S. Truman as “the President,” but preferred instead to jocularly anoint him as “that son of a bitch.”
17 Cora Jane Spiller, 16 August 1993.
18 Ibid., 16 August 1993 and 10 May 1994.
19 Ibid., 16 August 1993.
20 Kentucky Registrar of Vital Statistics, file no. 29188.
21 Spiller, 16 August 1993.
22 Kentucky Registrar of Vital Statistics, file no. 29188. Kentucky’s Department of Vital Statistics gives Markham Hines death date as 12 October 1917, but that may have been when it was filed. The family Bible states his death as 10 October 1917.
23 Spiller, 16 August 1993.
24 Park City Daily News, 4 December 1951.
25 Spiller, 16 August 1993.
26 Park City Daily News, 6 December 1935.
27 Spiller, 16 August 1993.
28 Park City Daily News, 18 August 1948.
29 The Times-Journal, 7 October 1905.
30 Park City Daily Newsy 18 August 1948.
31 William Warner Hines fact sheet, Kentucky Library, Bowling Green, Kentucky.
32 Spiller, 16 August 1993; Warner Hines lived at No. 4 Proctor Court which is now across the street from Western Kentucky University’s South Hall.
33 Park City Daily Newsy 18 August 1948.
34 Spiller, 16 August 1993.
35 Jane Morningstar, typescript, Kentucky Library, n.d.
36 John Porter Hines, “Reminiscences of Green River,” 1.
37 College Heights Heraldy 13 January 1956.
38 Park City Daily News, 19 June 1961.
39 Interview with Caroline Hines Tyson, 27 July 1994.
40 Spiller, 16 August 1993 and 25 March 1994. This last enumerated child was the only one not to have been born in Bowling Green. Shortly before the baby’s birth, Cornelia had come down with consumption, and Edward had taken her out west because of her declining health.
41 Bowling Green Gazette, 31 December 1884.
42 Spiller, 16 August 1993.
43 Courier-Journaly 29 August 1992.
44 Although Hines says in his autobiography that his birthplace was torn down to make way for the Bowling Green High School, in this he is mistaken; that institution is several blocks from the place of his birth. Duncan Hines, Duncan Hines’ Food Odyssey (New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1955) 6.
45 John L. Andriot, ed., Population Abstract of the United States (McLean VA: Andriot Associates, 1983) 1: 304.
46 Park City Daily News, 29 September 1943.
47 Spiller, 16 August 1993.
48 Interview with Robert Wright, 25 May 1994.
49 Hines, Food Odyssey, 6-8.
50 Ibid., 7.
51 Ibid., 8.
52 Spiller, 16 August 1993.
53 David M. Schwartz, “Duncan Hines: He Made Gastronomes Out of Motorists,” Smithsonian 15 (November 1984): 92.
54 Anna Rothe, ed., Current Biography 1946 (New York: H.W. Wilson Company, 1945) 259.
55 Hines, Food Odyssey, 122.
56 “Spiller, 16 August 1993.
57 John Porter Hines, “Reminiscences of Green River,” 1.
58 The Bowling Green Junior High School occupies the site of this now extinct institution. St. Columba closed in June 1911.
59 Spiller, 16 August 1993 and 10 May 1994.
60 Ibid., 16 August 1993. The Rochester house was located in a small hamlet nestled just outside Bowling Green’s city limits known as Forest Park. The site of the home is now a block or two from the campus of Western Kentucky University, just across the L&N railroad tracks on the Morgantown pike.
61 Hines, “Reminiscences of Green River,” 1.
62 Spiller, 16 August 1993.
63 The Bowling Green Business College was located in downtown Bowling Green on College Street between 11th and 12th Streets.
64 Park City Daily News, 8 January 1950. The building that Hines attended no longer exists. It was moved to another location a few blocks away in 1899 when the building was razed by fire. The castle-like edifice that replaced it was also razed by fire in the 1960s.
65 Duncan Hines, Duncan Hines’ Food Odyssey (New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1955) 13.
66 Interview with Cora Jane Spiller, 16 August 1993.
67 Ibid., 16 August 1993 and 28 June 1994.
68 Milton MacKaye, “Where Shall We Stop For Dinner?,” The Saturday Evening Post 211 (3 December 1938): 80.
69 Spiller, 16 August 1993.
70 Hines, Food Odyssey, 15.
71 Courier-Journal (Louisville KY), 7 July 1957.
72 MacKaye, “Where Shall We Stop for Dinner?,” 80.
73 Lesley Poling-Kempes, The Harvey Girls: Women Who Opened the West (New York: Paragon House, 1989) passim.
74 Hines, Food Odyssey, 16-17.
75 James A. Cox, “How Good Food and Harvey ‘Skirts’ Won the West,” Smithsonian 18/6 (n. d.): 136.
76 Hines, Food Odyssey, 16-17.
77 Courier-Journaly 1 July 1957.
78 Hines, Food Odyssey, 18.
79 Spiller, 16 August 1993.
80 Telephone interview with Jean Brainerd, Wyoming State Museum, Cheyenne WY, 2 September 1994.
81 Hines, Food Odyssey, 1.
82 Ibid., Peerless City Directory, comp., 1902-1903 Cheyenne Wyoming City Directory Tribune Press (Greeley CO) 94. In the 1902-1903 Cheyenne Wyoming City Directory,
Harry P. Hynd is listed as the proprietor of the Capitol Bar, not Harry Hynd’s Restaurant. Hynd ran the dining facility with the help of his wife Nellie. The restaurant must have been the first one on the street that caught Hines’s attention, because the same city directory shows there to be eighteen restaurants then serving Cheyenne denizens.
83 Hines, Food Odyssey, 1-6.
84 Spiller, 16 August 1993.
85 MacKaye, “Where Shall We Stop for Dinner?,” 82.
86 Hines, Food Odyssey, 18.
87 Joseph M. Carey, the owner of the ranch, was Wyoming’s senator (1890-1895). After he was defeated in his re-election bid, he returned to his lucrative law practice. He entered politics again in 1911, becoming that state’s governor in 1915. He died in 1923. Hines’s friend, Robert D. Carey, became Wyoming’s governor (1919-1923). He later served as a US Senator from Wyoming from 1930 until his death in 1937.
88 Duncan Hines, Duncan Hines’ Food Odyssey (New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1955) 18-19. The Careys are erroneously referred to in this book as the Gearys.
89 Adventures in Good Eating, Inc. v. Best Places To Eat, Inc. and Carl A. Barrett, civil action no. 1844 (1940), Procter and Gamble, Duncan Hines collection, 30. Although Hines believed this incident to be in 1903 or 1904, chronology does not support this assertion. Also, from this same source, Hines states that he lived “eleven” years in the western states; he was there for, at best, almost seven. It is possible that this is the stenographer’s error, mistaking the word “seven” for “eleven” while transcribing Hines’s recollection.
90 Interview with Maj. Gen. Richard Groves, 10 August 1994.
91 Wyoming Census, 1880, (Cheyenne WY), 306. Mary Jennings Jeffres was born in 1844.
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br /> 92 Groves, 10 August 1994.
93 Telephone interview with Jean Brainerd, Wyoming State Museum, Cheyenne, Wyoming, 2 September 1994.
94 Cheyenne Daily Leader, 22 December 1903.
95 Wyoming Census, 1880 (Cheyenne WY) 306.
96 Groves, 10 August 1994.
97 Charles Apple, ed., 1884 Cheyenne, Wyoming City Directory (Cheyenne WY: Leader Steam Printing Co., 1884) n.p.; Charles Apple, ed., 1895 Cheyenne, Wyoming City Directory, (Cheyenne, Wyoming: Leader Steam Printing Co., 1895) n.p.; Peerless Directory Company, comp., 1902-1903 Cheyenne, Wyoming City Directory (Greeley Co: Tribune Press, 1902) 55. Chaffin’s greenhouse was first located in Cheyenne at 352 Ransom; after 1895 it was located at 1718-1722 Central Avenue.
98 Groves, 10 August 1994.
99 Phil Roberts, David L. Roberts and Steven L. Roberts, Wyoming Almanac (Laramie: Skyline West Press, 1994). It would be illuminating to know the exact date that Hines left his job as a Wells-Fargo relief man, but Robert Chandler, resident historian of the Wells-Fargo Company in San Francisco, California, says that the answer will never be known, because all the company’s files from that time were destroyed in the fiery aftermath of the San Francisco earthquake of 18 April 1906.
100 Duncan Hines, Duncan Hines’ Food Odyssey (New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1955) 19.
101 Hines, Food Odyssey, 20. In this source, Hines says his employer was the Wells-Fargo Company. This is either his mistake or the book’s editors, because in every other account Hines states that his employer was the Green Copper Company. Wells Fargo’s company historians concede that the Green Copper Company may possibly have been briefly involved in some small way with their company, but its ties with them were only tenuous. In fact, they had never heard of the Green Copper Company.
102 Cheyenne Daily Leader, 28 March 1903.
103 Ibid., 22 December 1903.
104 Ibid., 28 March 1903. Maj. Richard H. Wilson was the commanding officer at Fort Slocum from 1904 to 1906.
105 Groves, 10 August 1994. Eva, it seems, continued to live with Florence at one time or another for the rest of her life.
106 New York Department of Health, Bureau of Vital Statistics.
107 Interview with Maj. Gen. Richard H. Groves, 8 September 1994.
108 Ibid., 10 August 1994.
109 Chicago, Illinois, city directory, 1906. In the fall of 1905 they made their first home at 4628 Lake Avenue.
110 Adventures In Good Eating, Inc. v. Best Places To Eat, Inc. and Carl A. Barrett, civil action no. 1844 (1940) 15. According to the 1905 and 1906 Chicago city directories, when Hines was first employed by the J. T. H. Mitchell Company, the firm operated out of room 1201. Shortly after he was hired, the firm moved downstairs four floors to room 816 where the office remained until Hines left the firm.
111 Milton MacKaye, “Where Shall We Stop for Dinner?,” The Saturday Evening Post 111 (3 December 1938): 80.
112 Interview with Robert Wright, 25 May 1994.
113 Interview with Cora Jane Spiller, 16 August 1993.
114 Chicago, Illinois, city directories, 1908, 1909, 1911, 1912 and 1913. It must have been hard for his relatives to keep up with him. In the first few years of their marriage, Duncan and Florence Hines moved to a new address nearly every year. In 1907 they moved to 4123 Drexel Boulevard; that was followed by a move one year later to 4217 Berkeley Avenue. In 1910 they moved to 4335 Greenwood Avenue, which was followed by yet another move in 1911 to 1123 East 47th Street.
115 This apartment is no longer in existence; it was torn down after World War II, probably a victim of a 1950s urban renewal project.
116 Adventures in Good Eating, Inc. v. Best Places To Eat, Inc., 18-19.
117 MacKaye, “Where Shall We Stop for Dinner?,” 80.
118 This restaurant is still in existence and remains quite popular.
119 Adventures In Good Eating, Inc. v. Best Places To Eat, Inc., 14.
120 Ibid., 15-16.
121 Chicago, Illinois, city directories, January 1915; July 1915. In 1914, Hines and Joseph A. Coyer started the National Sample and Color Company; Hines was its president and Coyer its vice-president. Nothing is known of this foray into entrepreneurship, not even the nature of the company itself, but it must not have been very successful; the business was listed as a going concern in the January and July issues of the 1915 Chicago city directories, but by the time the January 1916 edition was published, the firm was no longer listed.
122 Chicago, Illinois, city directory, 1917.
123 Adventures In Good Eating, Inc. v. Best Places To Eat, Inc., 2; Chicago, Illinois, city directory, 1928. Both Rogers and Company and the Mead-Grede Printing Company were located at 2001 Calumet Avenue at the corner of Calumet and East 20th Street.
124 Adventures In Good Eating, Inc. v. Best Places To Eat, Inc., 3-4. In a 14 June 1997 conversation with William Jenkins, a retired professor of government at Western Kentucky University and a man who had conducted considerable research into Hines’s past, he related to the author the nature of the “advertising specialties” Hines sold as a traveling salesperson. Jenkins is convinced that these objects, also referred to as “printing ideas,” were the little office knick-knacks on which companies advertise their names, such as pencils, key-chains, fans, erasers, calendars, etc. In fact, in the sales trade they are still called “advertising specialties.”
125 Duncan Hines, Duncan Hines’ Food Odyssey (New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1955) 60.
126 MacKaye, “Where Shall We Stop for Dinner?,” 80.
127 Spiller, 16 August 1993.
128 Adventures In Good Eating, Inc. v. Best Places To Eat, Inc., 3. It was while Hines was learning the use of his new vehicle that he was given the news of his father’s death. Duncan’s father, Edward Hines, had retired to his peaceful bungalow on the Gasper River in Warren County, Kentucky, some years earlier. In either late 1918 or early 1919, not long after the death of his son, Markham, the elder Hines’s health began to deteriorate. Because of his condition, his family brought him back to Bowling Green where they could better look after his needs. At first he stayed at his daughter Annie’s home at 902 Elm Street, but he was later moved to his son Porter’s residence at 1337 Park Street, where he died at age 77 on Sunday 15 February 1920, at 12:55 P.M.
129 Ibid., 5.
130 Spiller, 10 May 1994.
131 Illinois Census, 1920, Chicago, Illinois.
132 William Lawren, The General and the Bomb: A Biography of General Leslie R. Groves, Director of the Manhattan Project (New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1988) 54.
133 In the 1940s Leslie Groves, who by then had risen to the rank of General, became the director of the Manhattan project during World War II; later he was immortalized in the 1989 Paul Newman film Fat Man and Little Boy.
134 Groves, 8 September 1994.
135 Maj. Gen. Richard H. Groves to author, 8 October 1994.
136 Duncan Hines to Mrs. Leslie R. Groves, 11 March 1950.
137 Duncan Hines, Adventures in Good Eating (Chicago: Adventures in Good Eating, Inc., 1936) 9. Hines was probably trying to render a well-turned romantic phrase. In fact, he avoided driving at night.
138 Spiller, 10 May 1994.
139 MacKaye, “Where Shall We Stop for Dinner?,” 80.
140 Spiller, 16 August 1993.
141 MacKaye, “Where Shall We Stop for Dinner?,” 80.
142 Ibid.
143 David M. Schwartz, “Duncan Hines: He Made Gastronomes Out of Motorists,” Smithsonian 15 (November 1984): 88.
144 MacKaye, “Where Shall We Stop for Dinner?,” 16.
145 Courier-Journal (Louisville KY), 4 April 1941.
146 Schwartz, “Duncan Hines,” 88.
147 Press release, Duncan Hines Institute, Inc., Ithaca NY, February 1959, 3.
148 “Duncan Hines 1880-1959,” General files, Kentucky Library, Bowling Green KY, 1959.
149 James A. Cox, “How Good Food and Harvey ‘Skirts’ Won the West,” Smithsonian 18:130.
150
Schwartz, “Duncan Hines,” 87.
151 Ibid., 88, 90.
152 Adventures In Good Eating, Inc. v. Best Places To Eat, Inc., 16. Hines’s notebook was constantly being updated with additions and subtractions. Between 1905-1930 there were many more restaurants that had been listed, but in 1930 there were about 200.
153 Schwartz, “Duncan Hines,” 88, 90.
154 Spiller, 16 August 1993 and 10 May 1994.
155 Chicago, Illinois, city directory, 1928. This firm was located at 320 East 21st Street at the intersection of 21st Street and Calumet Avenue, just one block from the Mead-Grede company.
156 Chicago, Illinois, city directory, 1930. It was located at 124 Polk Street in Chicago.
157 Adventures In Good Eating, Inc. v. Best Places To Eat, Inc., 6.
158 Chicago, Illinois, city directory, 1934. E. Raymond Wright, Inc. was located at 856 West Adams Street.
159 Hines drove his own automobile, not a company-provided one; nor did the company pay his gas, oil, and repair expenses. He bore those costs himself.
160 Adventures In Good Eating, Inc. v. Best Places To Eat, Inc., 7-12.
161 Unfortunately, the author has been unable to determine in which Chicago newspaper the article appeared. There were more than a half-dozen operating in Chicago at the time.
162 Courier-Journal, 16 April 1941.
163 Schwartz, “Duncan Hines,” 90.
164 Exactly how many restaurants his memorandum notebook actually contained will never be known conclusively as it has not survived, possibly because it was treated as a fluid, disposable document.
165 Courier-Journaly 7 July 1957.
166 n. a., “Meet Duncan Hines,” Moonbeams (November 1958): 5.
167 Duncan Hines, Duncan Hines’ Food Odyssey (New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1955) 28.
168 Adventures In Good Eating, Inc. v. Best Places To Eat, Inc. and Carl A. Barrett, civil action no. 1844 (1940) 19-22.
169 Adventures In Good Eating, Inc. v. Best Places To Eat, Inc., 21-22. Almost all the collected material Hines used to create his initial publication and any other paperwork from his days in Chicago is long gone. In the deposition cited above, Hines said (p. 22): “…in moving twice from Wright’s [business] to my home and [then later to] Kentucky [,] I discarded many of those [files] because they became too bulky and too cumbersome to handle. Many of the magazines and things of that like were too voluminous and I discarded lots of those…”
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