California Biographies 

Source:
History of Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo and Ventura Counties, California
by: C M Gidney - Santa Barbara. Benjamin Brooks - San Luis Obispo. 
Edwin M Sheridan - Ventura
Volumes II - Lewis Publishing Company, Chicago, ILL., 1917

This file is part of the California Genealogy & History Archives
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HINCKLEY, JOHN POWE, M. D.
In point of continuous service Doctor Hinckley is one of the oldest physicians of Ventura County. 
He has lived and practiced here for more than a quarter of a century, and his experience in the 
profession covers more than forty years. 
 
He is of stanch New England ancestry and of the rugged mold of the Puritans. He is directly 
descended from the second governor of Plymouth Colony. His grandfather served as a soldier in 
the War of 1812. Doctor Hinckley was born at St. Albans in Franklin County, Vermont, October 
4, 1853, a son of John W. and Lucina (Wait) Hinckley. His father was a man of prominence in 
Vermont, was educated in the Georgia Academy, became a blacksmith, and followed that trade 
at St. Albans for a number of years. He also filled the office of justice of the peace in the early 
days. In 1863 he returned to Georgia, Vermont, and lived there until his death on October 4, 
1911. 
 
Doctor Hinckley until he was ten years of age attended a select school. He was a student in the 
old Georgia Academy until 1870, and then entered the ranks of school teachers, lie taught one 
winter in Swanton, and one year in Georgia, Vermont, and largely with means earned by his 
work he entered the University of Vermont at Burlington, where he was graduated in the 
medical department in 1875.  

Doctor Hinckley did his first practice at Salisbury, Vermont, where he remained until 1884, and 
then went to Tulare in Spink County, South Dakota, and was engaged in a profitable practice in 
that territory, attending patients scattered over a wide area and enduring all the hardships of 
the pioneer doctor. In 1890 Doctor Hinckley came to Fillmore, California, and practiced in that 
village until 1902, and after the following two years were spent in Ventura he returned to 
Fillmore in 1904 and has since made that the headquarters of his large practice.  

Doctor Hinckley is a member of the Ventura County, and California State Medical Societies and 
the American Medical Association. Fraternally he is a past master of the Masonic Lodge at 
Fillmore, has taken the York Rite degrees, is a member of the Mystic Shrine, the Woodmen of 
the World, the Foresters of America, the Fraternal Brotherhood and the Fraternal Aid. 
Politically he is a republican, and his church is the Presbyterian.  

At Georgia, Vermont, on October 23, 1872, he married Miss Cora A. Loomis. Mrs. Hinckley died 
in June, 1906, being survived by four children: Ira L., who is a dentist at Los Angeles; May 
Lucina, at home with her father; Eugenia, who died in 1915; and Vinnia I., at home. On August 
6, 1908, at Sespe, California, Doctor Hinckley married Fannie Barnes. She was born at 
Binghampton, Broome County, New York, and her parents removed to Ventura County in the 
early days.