By Walter S. Hinchman

The amazing life of Holmes Hinkley deserves recognition as he built the first locomotive from original designs in New England. This little volume is an autobiography with included letters from those who knew him, various data of interest, and a background of the period in which Holmes Hinkley lived. The period of transition in America was from  mainly agricultural people to an organized industrial nation. His second locomotive, built in 1841 was called the Nantucket.

(42p., Illus, 1913)