Joseph Wesley Pinckney

ARASMITH, PINCKNEY

Posted By: Judy Wight Branson (email)
Date: 10/11/2004 at 11:11:16

J. W. Pinckney, Grand River twp., farmer, Sec. 11; P.O. Macksburg; born in Scholarie county, New York, in 1833, and was raised in Saratoga and Niagara counties; in 1850 he removed to Illinois and settled in Henry county, and came to this county in 1869; owns 363 acres of land; has held offices of township clerk and assessor, school director and justice of the peace; he married Miss Mary J. Arasmith in 1852; she was born in Illinois; has nine children: Alvina A., Harvey H. M., John W., Leo N., Daniel B., Joseph L. N., Charles W. B., Mary E. and George E. (Edmund).

Taken from the book, "The History of Madison County, Iowa, 1879" page 593