Alva Henry Hinkley

As printed in 1912

ALVA HENRY HINKLEY

New York state was the home-nest of the Hinkley family of Johnson county, Iowa. The progenitors of this numerous and respected people were pioneers of the Empire Commonwealth. As stated in the biography of Luther Henry Hinkley, published elsewhere in this volume, Wiot Hinkle\r, the founder of the family, emigrated to Madison county, New York, in 1806, from Connecticut. Those were the days when traveling was a hardship and home-building cast on primitive lines. What is now one of the most thickly-settled and best-improved sections of the nation's foremost state was then almost a forest primeval. Ox teams were the dynamos of locomotion and log houses were the places of the gentility. Out of such conditions, however, the student of American history knows that there was developed the brain and the brown of a civilization which has compelled the respect and admiration of the world. The children of the ' ' New York Yankees ' ' have confpassed the continent and written their personality on the sisterhood of states. Iowa has been enriched and blessed by a liberal intersection of this virile stock, as well as by the strains of other commonwealth and nations, and as a consequence is today unique among the American states in its citizenship and development. The Hinkley family, in their day and place, have played an important part in the making of the Hawkeye commonwealth.

Alva Henry Hinkley is a native of Utica, Oneida county, New York. The date of his birth was January 2, 1861. Those were the troublous days of the American Union, and Louis

As printed in Leading events in Johnson County, Iowa, history (1912). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.