Elbert PINNEY

1824 - 1914  (90 years)

• Name	Elbert PINNEY
  Birth	29 Jan 1824	MA or IL
  Gender	Male
  Death	14 Mar 1914	Duarte, San Gabriel, CA
  Person ID	I1414	Descendants of Francis Barnard
  Last Modified	1 Feb 2026

  
  

  Father	Henry PINNEY,   b. Dec 1790, Colebrook, Litchfield, CT d. 1872, Preston, MO (Age 81 years)
  Mother	Delina RIGGS
  Family ID	F579	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Harriet YOUNG
  Marriage	29 Mar 1849	Morrison, Illinois
  Children	1. Elbert Clark PINNEY,   b. 21 Apr 1850, Kewanee, IL d. 5 Dec 1865, Huntsville, TX (Age 15 years)   2. Henry Beers PINNEY,   b. 28 Dec 1851, Kewanee, IL d. 10 Aug 1915, San Francisco, CA (Age 63 years)   3. John Lewis PINNEY,   b. 20 Mar 1854, Kewanee, IL   4. Emily May PINNEY,   b. 29 Mar 1856, Kewanee, IL   5. Ida PINNEY,   b. 1 Sep 1858, Greenville, TX d. 28 Sep 1870, Greenville, TX (Age 12 years)   6. Ada PINNEY,   b. 1 Sep 1858, Greenville, TX d. 12 Dec 1865, Greenville, TX (Age 7 years) + 7. Nettie Olive PINNEY,   b. 29 Aug 1861, White Rock, TX   8. Lulu Bessie PINNEY,   b. 29 Jun 1864, Greenville, TX   9. Charity Virginia PINNEY,   b. 26 Nov 1866, Greenville, TX   10. Joel Warren PINNEY,   b. 25 Apr 1869, Preston, MO   11. Elbert PINNEY,   b. 29 Sep 1872, Preston, MO
  Family ID	F581	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	1 Feb 2026

  
  

• Notes

  Elbrit Pinney (1825 - ), per Stiles, II, p. 614 Elbert Pinney (29 Jan. 1824 MA or IL - 14 Mar. 1914 Duarte, San Gabriel, CA), per Kathy Massanet (e-mail: kmassanet@applicationssoftware.com), family tree posted on Ancestry.com, downloaded by WMB 23 May 2004 Notes on Elbert Pinney, per Kathy Massanet (e-mail: kmassanet@applicationssoftware.com), family tree posted on Ancestry.com, downloaded by WMB 23 May 2004 Elbert was educated in Meadville, Pennsylvania, and there began the study of medicine under the eminent physician, Dr. Woodruff. He graduated from the Starling Medical College of Columbus, Ohio, in 1847. This was its first year under that name. Its former name was Willoughby College. He located in Wethersfeild, Illinois, in 1848, and there, by the practice of medicine, earned the money to take a post graduate course, which he did at Miami Medical College, Cincinnati. He received a diploma from that college also. On March 29, 1849, he married Harriet Young ofMorrison, Illinois. Dr. Elbert Pinney located first in Kewanee, Illinois. In December 1856, he moved to White Rock, Texas, and later purchased a large plantation near Greenville, Hunt County, Texas. In 1862, he entered the Confederate Armyas a surgeon with the rank of Major, Chickasaw Battalion, commanded by Lieutenant-Colonel Harris, stationed at Fort Arbuckle, Indian Territory. This district was commanded by Brigadier-General Pike, under whose command, and later that of General McGruder, Major Elbert Pinney, M.D., served continously until near the close of the war. His battalion was then ordered to report to General Throckmorton, whose headquarters was at Dallas, Texas. Major Pinney was the only surgeon in the General's command at that time, 1865, when the armies of the Confederacy disbanded. His slaves freed by the Emancipation Proclamation, he was no longer able to cultivate his Texas plantation, so with his family, he moved to a farm near Preston, Jasper County, Missouri, in 1868. He established a general merchandise and drug store in Preston; he also practiced medicine and supervised his farm. He won distinction in his profession as a doctor, and also acquired a fine reputation as a business man. He was at one time President of the First National Bank, and also of the Farmers and Merchants Bank of Carthage, Missouri. In March 1886, he moved to Caifornia with his family. They resided first in Los Angeles and later, on an orange grove farm in Duarte, San Gabriel Valley. He retired from the practice of medicine when he came to California, and gave his entire time and mind to the cultivation of citrus fruits, which he did by scientific methods. He was very much interested in the work of Luther Burbank, and corresponded with him frequently. Only a week before his death he received a box of garden seeds from the scientist. Dr. Pinney was not a member of any church, though a firm believer in the Christian faith, and one who trusted implicitly in Jesus Christ as his Saviour. A family of his ex-slaves followed him to Missouri soon after the Civil War, and have been wards of the Pinney family ever since. At the time of Dr. Pinney's last illness and death, Jim, one of that family, was his faithful attendant, sleeping on a cot near Dr. Pinney'sbedside. No one else could so accceptably serve him in those last days, as Jim, who was born a slave on the Texas plantation so long ago. This speaks much for the character of the slave as well as that of the master. Elbert married Harriet Young (30 Dec. 1830 Mt. Gilead, OH - 29 May 1920), per Kathy Massanet (e-mail: kmassanet@applicationssoftware.com), family tree posted on Ancestry.com, downloaded by WMB 23 May 2004