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 ?oS HINCKS. HINCKS. remained until the Confederate army was all south of the Potomac. In the autumn of 1863 he re-entered the school, and remained there until the following summer, and then enlisted as 2d lieutenant in company C, 60th regiment, Massachusetts volunteers. Having served out his term of enlistment, he again returned to the normal school, and was graduated July 26, 1865. After graduating he engaged in teaching in the Boston "Farm school," and later in the towns of Chilmark, Barn- stable and Quincy. From 1874 to '76 he carried on a country store at West Tisbury. He is now a teacher in Chilmark. Mr. Hilhnan was married at Woonsocket, R. I., August 7, 1S67, to Abby B., daugh- ter of Horace M. and Anna H. Pierce. Of this union are six children : Anna Helen, Horace Owen, Fannie Beal, Arthur Beriah, Walter Pierce and Charlotte Hill- man. Mr. Hillman has been treasurer of the town of Chilmark fifteen years, collector of taxes four years, and member of the school board seven years. He represented Dukes county in the Legislature, 1875 and '86, the latter year serving on the committee on education. He is a trial justice, and chairman of the Republican county and town committees. His church connections are with the M. E. church, where he holds the positions of steward, trustee, class-leader, and Sun- day-school superintendent. He is secre- tary of the Dukes County Educational Association, and also of the Martha's Vineyard Agricultural Society. HINCKS, Edward W., son of Elisha and Elizabeth Hopkins (Wentworth) Hincks, was born in Bucksport, Hancock county, Me., May 30, 1830. He is a lineal descendant of Chief-Justice John Hincks, of New Hampshire, the first of the name to arrive in the country, and who was also president of the council both in New Hamp- shire and Massachusetts, almost continu- ously from 1683 to 1708. He received his early education in the common schools. He removed to Bangor, Me., 1845, ar, d worked as printer on the Bangor "Whig and Courier" till 1849, when he went to Boston. He was a mem- ber of the House of Representatives, 1S55. In December, i860, he tendered Major Robert Anderson a volunteer force to aid in the defense of Fort Moultrie. At the call of President Lincoln for troops, April 15, 1 86 1, he was the first man in Massa- chusetts to offer his services to the gov- ernor for immediate duty, at 9 o'clock, A. M., of that day, and was directed by Governor Andrew to warn the companies of the 8th regiment, of which he was ad- jutant, to assemble at Faneuil Hall on the morning of the 16th. He became lieutenant-colonel of the 8th regiment, April 17th, and marched with it for Washington on the 18th. At Annapolis, Md., April 21st, he commanded a party that cut out and saved the frigate " Constitu- tion," and on the following day commanded another detachment that finally opened communications with Washington that had been closed for several days, since the EDWARD W. HINCKS. assault on the troops in Baltimore, April 19th. Reaching Washington with his regi- ment, April 26th, he was on that day com- missioned 2d lieutenant, 2d U. S. regular cavalry, and May 16th, was promoted to the colonelcy of the 8th Massachusetts, which he commanded during its three months' term of service. August 3d, of this year, he was commis- sioned colonel of the 19th Massachusetts volunteers. He became brigadier-general of volunteers, November 29, 1862, was on court-martial duty in Washington in the spring of 1863, and superintendent of re- cruiting service, provost marshal-general and military commander in New Hamp- shire, from July, 1863, to March, 1864, and