Source Information
Ancestry.com. Joseph W. Hines, Pacific Coast Pioneer [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 1999. Original data: Library of Congress. California As I Saw It: First-Person Narratives of California's Early Years, 1849-1900. Volume 56. [database on-line] Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, 1999. Hines, Joseph Wilkinson. Life and Labors of a Pacific Coast Pioneer. San Jose, CA: Eaton and Co., 1911.
About Joseph W. Hines, Pacific Coast Pioneer
Joseph Wilkinson Hines (b. ca. 1824) left New York State in 1853 as a Methodist missionary to Ohio. He later settled in Santa Clara County, California, where he was a prominent Republican and anti-slavery advocate. Touching incidents in the life and labors of a pioneer (1911) is a collection of unrelated papers by Hines: speeches and poems touching such subjects as missionary experiences in Oregon, the history of Santa Clara, Sir George Seymour, Mount Hood, Klamath Indians, woman suffrage, and the University of the Pacific.
