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Correspondence, 1935.
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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 1935 June 28 Gansevoort, N.Y. To Pincock, Jenny From Albright, Helen G. Notes ALs
- Date and Place from 1935 February 25 [New York ?] To Pincock, Jenny From Candler, Beatrice Post Attachments Envelope, with stamps Notes ALs
- Date and Place from 1935 September 9 Rochester, N.Y. To Pincock, Jenny From Cooman, Mrs. Carl C. Notes TLs
- Date and Place from 1935 September 16 Rochester, N.Y. To Pincock, Jenny From Cooman, Mrs. Carl C. Notes TLs
- Date and Place from 1935 August 14 Toronto, Ont. To Pincock, Jenny From Dyer, W.E. Notes ALs
- Date and Place from [1935?] September 4 Chicago, Illinois To Pincock, Jenny From Harvey, Mary Notes ALs
- Date and Place from 1935 September 20 Toronto, Ont. To Pincock, Jenny From Holden, Amelia Attachments Attached is draft of Jenny's reply, on Trails of Truth letterhead. Notes ALs
- Date and Place from 1935 September 9 Toronto, Ont. To Pincock, Jenny From Jenkins, C.C. Attachments Includes a fill in the blank poem. Notes TLs
- Date and Place from 1935 January 31 [?] To Pincock, Jenny From Miholich, Marie Notes TLs
- Date and Place from 1935 February 13 Coe Hill, Ont. To Pincock, Jenny From Milne, Beatrice Notes ALs
- Date and Place from 1935 September 12 Coe Hill, Ont. To Pincock, Jenny From Milne, Beatrice Notes TLs
- Date and Place from 1935 March 18 Millburn, N.J. To Pincock, Jenny From Minot, Elizabeth G. Notes ALs
- Date and Place from 1935 August 12 Atlantic, Mass. To Pincock, Jenny From Nims, Louella E. Notes ALs
- Date and Place from [1935?] Atlantic, Mass. To Pincock, Jenny From Profit, Mrs. William M. Notes ALs
- Date and Place from 1935 August 29 Toronto, Ont. To Pincock, Jenny From Ross, W.E. Notes ALs
- Date and Place from 1935 May 7 Ottawa, Ont. To Pincock, Jenny From Sanson, Bertha Notes ALs
- Date and Place from [1935?] New York, N.Y. To Pincock, Jenny From Tack, George D. Notes ALs
- Date and Place from [1935 or 1936] Syracuse, N.Y. To Pincock, Jenny From Thurston, Edna Notes ALs
- Date and Place from 1935 February 22 Tillsonburg, Ont. To Pincock, Jenny From Tillson, George D. Notes ALs
- Date and Place from 1935 January 22 Prattsburgh, N.Y. To Pincock, Jenny From Wheeler, Delia S.S. Notes ALs
- Date and Place from 1935 March 30 Holcomb, N.Y. To Pincock, Jenny From Wright, Harry M. Notes TLs
- Date and Place from 1935 May 3 Holcomb, N.Y. To Pincock, Jenny From Wright, Harry M. Notes TLs
- Date and Place from 1935 September 12 Madoc, Ont. To W.E. Ross and Mrs. Ross From Pincock, Jenny O'Hara Notes TLs
- Date and Place from 1935? Calgary, Alta. To Pincock, Jenny From Garrad, Rev. Ada Notes ALs
- Date and Place from 1935 February 21 Coe Hill, Ont. To Pincock, Jenny From Milne, Beatrice Attachments Envelope, with stamp. Notes ALs
- Date and Place from 1935 April 29 Ottawa, Ont. To Pincock, Jenny From Sanson, Bertha Notes ALs
- Date and Place from 1935 Feb. 26 St Catharines, Ont. To Maines, Rev. Fred From Wise, Andrew. Attachments Envelope, with Stamp. Notes TLs, for Board of Directors, Church of Divine Revelation.
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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).