Talk:Duncan Hines

Relationship with Thomas Hines
Anyone know the exact relationship between Duncan and Thomas Hines, the Confederate spy. Since they are buried in the same family plots in Fairview Cemetery in Bowling Green, they are probably related in some way.--Bedford 05:00, 3 August 2007 (UTC)

Nevermind, I found out. They are second cousins twice removed.--Bedford 02:34, 4 August 2007 (UTC)

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Did entry really say "Corbin, KY"?
Did Hines develop the two capital-letter state abbreviation over two decades prior to its development and use by the Post Office Department? Or was the entry actually styled "Corbin, Ky., using the traditional state abbreviation? Since I don't have access to this edition of Adventures in Good Eating this is an actual, as opposed to rhetorical, question. 166.152.221.106 (talk) 00:22, 7 July 2013 (UTC)

Wife?
We need to know because we have "Hines and his wife ______ began assembling a list..." around 1935 and we need to know what name goes in the blank.

I don't know who NNDB is for all I know they make stuff up, but at least they give a detailed exposition on his wives. They say:
 * Florence, married 1905-1938 (her death)
 * Emelie, married 1939-1945 (divorce)
 * Clara, married 1947-1959 (his death).

Slate, reviewing the only biography of him (and presumably sourcing from that) has him "settling down with his first wife, Florence, in Chicago". By coincidence, NPR just published a piece yesterday, and they have a photo "In 1957, Duncan Hines and his wife, Clara" which fits the NNDB chronology. Kentucky History has "Seven years later [than 1898, which would have been 1905], Hines married Florence Chaffin and moved to Chicago..." which matches the NNDB chronology (Kentucky History is a ky.gov sight so it's official). Didn't see any other reliable sources right off, but the unreliable seem to agree with NNDB, such as TVAcres.com with "In 1935, Duncan, a direct mail firm salesman in Chicago and his wife, Florence, compiled a list..." and so forth.

But wait. The Duncan Hines folks themselves have "At [age] 55, Hines and his wife Clara send a list..." (Hines would have been 55 around 1935; it's a little annoying to access because its an automatic slideshow you can't pause or back up, but its on the second page). They (and direct mirrors) are the only ones I found that have Clara as the wife and co-creator of his early years. But they are, after all, Duncan Hines Inc.

But Hatchett's biograph here has him marrying Florence in 1905 and dying in or around 1938. Hatchett has footnotes and the whole nine yards.

That's good enough for me. Official site or no, my take is that the Duncan Hines guys have been dipping into the cake mix a little too much, if you get my drift. Florence is our gal, it says here. Herostratus (talk) 22:24, 27 March 2017 (UTC)