File 7 - Correspondence, 1934.

[Fonds] SCA94 - Maines Pincock Family fonds.

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Title proper

Correspondence, 1934.

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University of Waterloo. Special Collections & Archives

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SCA94-GA64-1-7

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Date(s)

1934 (Creation)

Creator

Maines Pincock Family

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Name of creator

Maines Pincock Family

Biographical history

Jenny O'Hara Pincock, Canadian spiritualist, author and musician, was born in Madoc, Hastings County, Ontario in 1890, where her great-grandfather had been a settler. She studied music at the Ontario Ladies' College in Whitby, Ont. (ca. 1908) and at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto (ca. 1912). On June 15, 1915 she married osteopath Robert Newton Pincock and moved with him to St. Catharines. Ont. where he maintained a practice. Newton Pincock died in 1928.

Jenny Pincock's sister Minnie O'Hara Maines, married Fred Maines in 1922. Fred Maines was educated at Victoria University, Toronto and was ordained to the ministry while serving with the YMCA overseas during the WWI. After the war he served as Boys' Work secretary for the Hamilton YMCA and as general secretary of the YMCA in Hamilton and Galt. He served during for five years with the YMCA War Services during WWII. He was minister of the Church of Divine Revelation in St. Catharine's, Ont. from 1930 to 1935. In 1935 he and Minnie moved to Kitchener, Ont. to pursue business interests. He died April 13, 1959.

In 1927, together with her sister Minnie and brother-in-law Rev. Fred J.T. Maines, Jenny Pincock began to organize seances with Mr. William Cartheuser, an American medium, in St. Catharines, Ontario. Notes were kept of these seances and much of that material appeared in published form in Pincock's Trails of Truth (Los Angeles: Austin Publishing Co., 1930). In 1930 they founded the Church of Divine Revelation in St. Catharines, Ont., with Fred Maines as ordained minister. In 1932 the Radiant Healing Centre was established. In 1935 Jenny Pincock ceased connection with William Cartheuser and with the Church of Divine Revelation. In 1937 she moved to Kitchener, Ont and in 1942 she purchased and moved to property formerly owned by her grandfather near Madoc. She died in 1948 or 1949.

A book of verse by Jenny Pincock entitled Hidden Springs was published posthumously (Privately printed, 1950) with an introduction by E.J. Pratt.

The Pincock/O'Hara/Maines circle of friends was wide, and included E.J. Pratt and his wife, Viola Whitney Pratt; B.F. Austin, the noted Canadian spiritualist; the widow of Sir Charles G.D. Roberts; Phoebe Watson; William Arthur Deacon; W.W.E. Ross; Mildred Ghent, wife of Toronto Telegram writer, Percy Ghent, and many others interested in spiritualism in Canada and elsewhere.

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Date and Place from 1934 April 24 Lily Dale, N.Y. To Pincock, Jenny From "Aunt Alice" Notes ALs
Date and Place from 1934 October 22 New York, N.Y To Pincock, Jenny From Baillie, Ellen S. Notes ALs
Date and Place from [1934?] Stratford, Conn. To Pincock, Jenny From Black, Flora L. Notes ALs: Request to renew membership to Radiant Healing Center
Date and Place from [1934?] December Aurora, Ont. To Pincock, Jenny From Blochin, Elizabeth Notes ACs: Christmas card.
Date and Place from 1934 July 31 Toronto, Ont. To Pincock, Jenny From Campbell, Ethel Notes ALs
Date and Place from 1934 August 9 [Corpus Christi, Texas ?] To Pincock, Jenny From Campbell, Ethel Notes ALs
Date and Place from [1934?] November 9 [New York ?] To Pincock, Jenny From Candler, Beatrice Post Notes ALs
Date and Place from 1934 July 27 Corpus Christi, Texas To Pincock, Jenny From Dawson, Bessie Vredenburgh Notes ALs
Date and Place from 1934 August 6 Corpus Christi, Texas To Pincock, Jenny From Dawson, Bessie V. Notes ALs
Date and Place from 1934 June 16 South River, Ont. To Pincock, Jenny From Edwards, Ross Notes ALs
Date and Place from 1934 December 18 San Diego, Calif To Pincock, Jenny From Fredericks, Mary Cahoon Notes ALs
Date and Place from 1934 December 27 San Diego, Calif. To Pincock, Jenny From Fredericks, Mary Cahoon Notes ALs
Date and Place from 1934 August 13 Baltimore, N.H. To Pincock, Jenny From Mother Hilgartner Notes ALs
Date and Place from 1934 June 11 Philadelphia, Penna. To Pincock, Jenny From Lykens, Warren D. Notes ALs Subject Re: Trails of Truth
Date and Place from 1934 January 26 Aspinwall, Pa. To Pincock, Jenny From McKee, Bertha C. Notes ALs
Date and Place from 1934 July 30 Buffalo, N.Y. To Pincock, Jenny From McKenzie, Elizabeth Notes ALs
Date and Place from 1934 January 9 Bancroft, Ont. To Pincock, Jenny From Muffitt, C.E. Notes ALs
Date and Place from 1934 June 12 Montreal, Que. To Pincock, Jenny From Nicol, Elizabeth H. Notes ALs
Date and Place from 1934 October 22 Trenton, Ont. To Pincock, Jenny From Nugent, Virginia C. Notes ALs
Date and Place from 1934 November 4 Trenton, Ont. To Pincock, Jenny From Nugent, Virginia C. Notes ALs
Date and Place from 1934 July 25 Sterlington, N.Y. To Pincock, Jenny From Pierson, Virginia Notes ALs
Date and Place from 1934 October 19 Aldershot, Ont. To Pincock, Jenny From Poole, Mrs. Charles Notes ALs
Date and Place from [1934?] December 18 Toronto, Ont. To Pincock, Jenny From Ross, W.E. Notes ALs
Date and Place from 1934 January 1 Rochester, N.H. To Pincock, Jenny From Sanborn, Lillian Notes ALs
Date and Place from 1934 April 20 Rochester, N.H. To Pincock, Jenny From Sanborn, Lillian Notes ALs
Date and Place from 1934 September 10 Aldershot, Ont. To Pincock, Jenny From Swartz, L. Notes ALs
Date and Place from 1934 December 10 Millington, N.J. To Pincock, Jenny From Toff, Anna [?] Nash Notes ALs
Date and Place from 1934 August 22 [?] To Pincock, Jenny From Tomkins, J.E. Notes ALs
Date and Place from 1934 April 2 Austin, Man. To Pincock, Jenny From Wood, W.R. Notes ALs
Date and Place from 1934 July 16 Calgary, Alta. To Pincock, Jenny From Garrad, A. Notes ALs
Date and Place from 1934 December 27 Baltimore, M.D. To Maines, Rev. Fred J.T. From Jenkins, Alexander F. Attachments Envelope, with stamp Notes : TLs

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Immediate source of acquisition

Donated by Mrs. Colleen Gildner to the Library in 1985 through the efforts of Dr. Stan McMullin (St. Paul's College) and Stuart MacKinnon (Dana Porter Library).

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