[3] The 24th Wisconsin Infantry served in the western theater of the war, and participated in many of the battles in Kentucky, Tennessee, and northern Georgia.
[2] In the fall of 1870, he was elected to the Wisconsin State Assembly running on the Democratic Party ticket.
[2] After the Assembly, Hinkley was employed in the grain business and lived for at least some time in Janesville, Wisconsin, and was a crop inspector on the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroad.
Ahira Hinkley was a native of Grafton County, New Hampshire, and is considered the founder of Eagle, Wisconsin, having located the site and staked his claim there in 1836, along with his brother Henry.
[6] The Hinkleys trace their lineage back to the brothers John and Thomas Hinckley, who came to the Plymouth Colony sometime before 1637.