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James Tinker
James Tinker (April 11, 1817 – February 20, 1886) was an American farmer from Rochester, Wisconsin who served a single one-year term as a Free Soil Party member of the Wisconsin State Assembly, in 1851, from Racine County〔("Members of the Wisconsin Legislature 1848–1999 State of Wisconsin Legislative Bureau. Information Bulletin 99-1, September 1999. p. 115 )〕 as well as holding a variety of local offices.
== Background ==
Tinker was born near Huddersfield, England.〔''Portrait and Biographical Album of Racine and Kenosha Counties, Wisconsin''. 1892. Chicago: Lake City Publishing Company, pp. 604, 607.〕 He married Jane McMillan on December 23, 1838.〔 He and his wife emigrated to the United States, and came to live in an area in western Racine County near the boundaries of Rochester, Dover and Burlington townships known as the "English Settlement".〔Bottomley, Edwin. ''An English settler in pioneer Wisconsin: the letters of Edwin Bottomley, 1842-1850'' edited with introduction and notes by Milo M. Quaife. Madison: State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1918; pp. 13, 31, 37, ''et seq.''〕 James is recorded as having been a colleague back in England of the famed temperance orator John Hockings, the "Birmingham Blacksmith"〔("History of Racine", in ''The history of Racine and Kenosha Counties, Wisconsin'' Chicago: Western Historical Company, 1879; p. 643 )〕 and they were chosen to go to England in 1851 to represent Wisconsin at The Great Exhibition, the 1851 London World's Fair.〔() ''Racine Advocate'' April 16, 1851 cited at ''"Burlington Events" 1835-2006''〕〔 〕 Tinker died of stomach cancer in Racine on February 20, 1886.〔〔 〕
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