Yolo-Alameda-San Bernardino County CA Archives Biographies.....Hinckley, Horace Cameron 1883 - 
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HORACE CAMERON HINCKLEY

    The agricultural possibilities of California and especially of that portion
thereof lying within the limits of the fertile valley of the Sacramento, find in
Mr. Hinckley an intelligent champion and enthusiastic supporter. With an ardent
faith in the future of this region he left his home in the southern part of the
state and established headquarters on the ranch near Knights Landing, where now
he extensively engages in grain-growing and stock-raising. Modern methods are
employed in the selection of stock and in their supervision, as well as in the
cultivation of the land. The Yolo Ranch Company, of which he is vice-president,
superintendent and the principal owner, has been incorporated under the laws of
the state and owns a vast tract aggregating twenty-one hundred acres, of which
eight hundred acres are in wheat, a very profitable crop in this locality. The
president of the company is William H. Meek of Haywards.

    The Hinckley family has been represented in the west for a considerable
number of years. Frank Hinckley, a native of Ohio and a civil engineer during
early life, was led to the Pacific coast by reason of opportunities for
employment in his chosen occupation and for some time he remained in the employ
of the Southern Pacific Railroad Company. While making his headquarters in
Oregon he there married Miss Sarah Meek, and later they established a home in
Alameda county, Cal., where their son, Horace C., was born December 15, 1883.
From the vicinity of San Francisco bay they removed to San Bernardino county and
purchased land there. The death of the senior Hinckley occurred in that county
in 1890 and there the younger representative of the name received his education
in the schools of San Bernardino and Redlands. After having finished the studies
of the high school in the city last-named he turned his attention to business
pursuits and engaged in the grading of roads and the laying of pipe lines.

    After having worked as a contractor in his home county for a number of
years, Mr. Hinckley came to Yolo county in 1908 and assumed the management of
the large property in which he was then and now continues to be the principal
owner. As previously intimated, he is making a specialty of the wheat business.
From the crop of 1910 he harvested ten thousand sacks of grain, in 1911
seventeen hundred sacks, and in 1912 about thirty-five hundred sacks and about
nine hundred tons of hay. On the ranch may be seen a number of pure-bred
Holstein cattle and others of a high grade, besides which there are numerous
horses kept both for work and breeding purposes, as well as a large drove of
hogs. Mr. Hinckley makes a specialty of breeding and raising heavy draft horses.
He owns one of the best English shire stallions in the state, Rillington Rover,
A. S. B. 9160, a seven-year old imported English shire dark bay weighing
twenty-two hundred and fifty pounds. His two-year old colts and fillies weigh
fifteen hundred pounds, and yearlings a thousand to eleven hundred pounds. Mr.
Hinckley also owns a two-year old stallion by Rillington Rover that weighs
eighteen hundred pounds. The Yolo ranch has established a reputation for having
the finest draft horses in this entire section. The energetic manager is putting
forth every effort to secure the greatest possible results from the land. The
efficacy of the methods he employs is apparent even to the casual observer. In
no local problem is he more deeply interested than in the subject of overflow.
The conditions appertaining thereto he has studied with an intelligent and
discriminating comprehension, with a view to the reclamation of some of the most
fertile land is the entire state. At the present time he is utilizing large
pumping plants on his own ranch and the method thus resorted to seems to promise
satisfactory results. He has installed an irrigation system, a large twenty-inch
pump and a hundred horse electric motor, from which he can irrigate any part of
the extensive ranch. He is raising alfalfa and will soon have about five hundred
acres of clover.

    The marriage of Mr. Hinckley took place in Woodland April 5, 1911, and
united him with one of the native daughters and cultured young ladies of that
thriving place, Miss Allie Madge Tharp, who was educated in the Woodland schools
and has been one of the leading members of the Eastern Star at that place. Mr.
Hinckley also has affiliations with that chapter, besides being an active member
of the blue lodge and the Royal Arch chapter at Woodland and in these various
degrees of Masonry he ranks as a man of generous attributes and keen mental
faculties, which likewise is his reputation among the business men of Woodland,
Knights Landing, Grafton and Sacramento, as well as other cities and towns of
the valley.


Additional Comments:
Extracted from

HISTORY OF YOLO COUNTY CALIFORNIA
WITH
Biographical Sketches
OF
The Leading Men and Women of the County Who Have Been Identified With Its Growth
and Development From the Early Days to the Present

HISTORY BY
TOM GREGORY
AND OTHER WELL KNOWN WRITERS
ILLUSTRATED COMPLETE IN ONE VOLUME

HISTORIC RECORD COMPANY
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA [1913]




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