Amador County Biographies

J. M. HINKSON

Transcribed by Peggy Hooper

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Are natives of Washington county, Missouri, where they resided until 1849, when they crossed the plains 
with the extensive family of that name, with their connections by marriage, the Boones. They located 
at Drytown, on the north side of the creek, in what was soon after El Dorado county, Dry creek being 
the dividing line. Few families have been better known than the Hinksons. They were the first to 
open and develop the Potosi mine. The elderly Hinkson did more, perhaps, to restrain arid calm the 
anger of the people during the terrible affair of August, 1855, than any other man, his age and reputation 
being appreciated by the honest, though hasty miners. The two sons whose names are at the head 
of this article, came to Volcano in 1879, and engaged in the livery business, which they are still carrying 
on. They run a stage line to Jackson and also have a mail contract between Jackson and Volcano, and 
also carry the express for Wells, Fargo & Co., and do an express business on their own account. They 
both have families residing in Volcano. The Hinksons are reckoned among the solid, reliable men of 
the county. 

History of Amador, California With Illustrations and Biographical Sketches 
of its Prominent Men and PioneersOakland, California, Thompson and West, 
1881.