 With his slender build, Hines was described as rather benign in appearance, and a friend observed that he had a voice resembling that of a "refined woman".He was said to have a fondness not only for women, but also music and horses.He became an adjunct professor at the Masonic University, a school established by the Grand Lodge of Kentucky Freemasons for teaching the orphans of Kentucky Masons in La Grange in 1859.