Background
Sinton was the son of linen manufacturer John Sinton, of Unshinagh, a Quaker (he was a cousin of Irish Quaker industrialist brothers Thomas Sinton and John Sinton), and Mary McDonnell.
Sinton was the son of linen manufacturer John Sinton, of Unshinagh, a Quaker (he was a cousin of Irish Quaker industrialist brothers Thomas Sinton and John Sinton), and Mary McDonnell.
The family came to America, from Ireland, and settled at Pittsburgh when he was three years of age. A man of "irregular education", his business interests centered on the manufacture of iron. The location of his furnaces was Lawrence County, Ohio.
Much of his fortune was made by stockpiling pig iron, waiting for the American Civil War and the selling that iron on at inflated prices.
He was described as "a large, strong person with strong common sense, and therefore moves solely on the solid foundation of facts." His residence, at Cincinnati, was the old Longworth mansion on Pike Street, built by Martin Baum early in the 19th century. He was the great-grandfather of First World War flying ace David Sinton Ingalls.
His home is now the Taft Museum of Artist He is one of God"s noblemen."
Sinton married Jane Ellison at Union Landing, Ohio.
They had two children.
Edward (1848-1869) and Anna Taft (1850-1931). The town of Sinton, Texas is named in his honor (given that he was the majority stock holder in Coleman-Fulton Pasture Company, as is the Sinton Hotel, a famous Cincinnati hotel.