He attended high school at Washington Academy in Salem, New York, college at the Albany Normal School, and read law at a school in St. Louis, Missouri before graduating from Cincinnati Law School four years after his brother Henry.
He attended high school at Washington Academy in Salem, New York, college at the Albany Normal School. At age 19 Hinds went west, reading law at a school in St. Louis, Missouri before graduating from Cincinnati Law School four years after his brother Henry.