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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 1936 February 8 St. Catharines, Ont. To Maines, Minnie From Conradi, Margaret Attachments Envelope, with stamp. Notes ALs
- Date and Place from 1936 November 4 London, Ont. To Maines, Minnie From Saunders, W.E. Attachments Envelope, with stamp Notes ALs
- Date and Place from 1936 December 12 Pasadena, Ca. To Pincock, Jenny From Agnew, T.H. Notes ALs
- Date and Place from 1936 May 29 Cove, Oregon To Pincock, Jenny From Anderson, Constance Notes ALs
- Date and Place from 1936 October 28 Batavia, N.Y. To Pincock, Jenny From Baker, Harriet B. Notes ALs
- Date and Place from 1936 February 8 St. Catharines, Ont To Pincock, Jenny From Conradi, Margaret Notes ALs
- Date and Place from 1936 July 21 Rochester, N.Y. To Pincock, Jenny From Cooman, Mrs. C.C. Notes ALs
- Date and Place from 1936 September 15 Detroit, Mi. To Pincock, Jenny From Dalrymple, Edna Notes ALs
- Date and Place from 1936 August 30 Hershy, Pa. To Pincock, Jenny From Deets, Roy W. Notes TLs
- Date and Place from 1936 August 13 Drummondville, Que. To Pincock, Jenny From Farmer, C. Notes TLs
- Date and Place from 1936 December 21 Saint Louis, M.O. To Pincock, Jenny From Fletcher, Anna Louise Attachments Envelope, with stamp Notes ALs
- Date and Place from 1936 May 24 Washington, Pennsylvania To Pincock, Jenny From H., Esther Notes ALs
- Date and Place from 1936 September 25 Washington, PA To Pincock, Jenny From H., Esther Notes ACs. Post card from Lily Dale Assembly, Lily Dale, N.Y.
- Date and Place from 1936 August 29 Columbus, Ohio To Pincock, Jenny From King, Irene Attachments Envelope, with stamp. Includes a business card for John H. Remmers. Notes ALs
- Date and Place from 1936 September 2 Pittsburgh, Pa. To Pincock, Jenny From Long, Florence M. Notes TLs
- Date and Place from 1936 August 26 Baldwinsville, N.Y. To Pincock, Jenny From Miller, Nellie V. Notes ALs
- Date and Place from 1936 March 6 Coe Hill, Ont. To Pincock, Jenny From Milne, Beatrice Notes ALs
- Date and Place from 1936 October 3 Lynchburg, Virginia To Pincock, Jenny From Nicholas, Mrs. H.T. Notes ALs
- Date and Place from 1936 August 27 Atlantic, Mass. To Pincock, Jenny From Nims, Louella E. Notes TLs
- Date and Place from 1936 April 29 New York, N.Y. To Pincock, Jenny From Papa, Fidella Dinsmore Notes ALs. Author also signs herself Fidella Dario Papa.
- Date and Place from 1936 May 13 New York, N.Y. To Pincock, Jenny From Papa, Fidella Dinsmore Notes TLs. Author also signs herself Fidella Dario Papa.
- Date and Place from 1936 June 4 Chicago, Ill. To Pincock, Jenny From Papa, Fidella Dinsmore Attachments Includes translation from the Italian of "William Cartheuser, the new medium in the direct voice," 7 ts. leaves. Envelope, with stamp. Notes ALs. Author also signs herself Fidella Dario Papa.
- Date and Place from 1936 October 17 New York, N.Y. To Pincock, Jenny From Papa, Fidella Dinsmore Notes ALs. Author also signs herself Fidella Dario Papa.
- Date and Place from 1936 October 24 New York, N.Y. To Pincock, Jenny From Papa, Fidella Dinsmore Notes ALs. Author also signs herself Fidella Dario Papa.
- Date and Place from 1936 September 14 Little Valley, N.Y. To Pincock, Jenny From Reed, Carrie Notes ALs
- Date and Place from 1936 June 30 San Diego, CA To Pincock, Jenny From Remmers, John H. Attachments Includes clipping. Includes J.H. Remmers business card. Notes TLs
- Date and Place from 1936 November 6 San Diego, Ca. To Pincock, Jenny From Remmers, John H. Notes TLs
- Date and Place from 1936 March 3 Rochester, N.H. To Pincock, Jenny From Sanborn, Lillian Notes ALs
- Date and Place from 1936 December 19 Rochester, N.H. To Pincock, Jenny From Sanborn, Lillian Notes ALs
- Date and Place from 1936 August 16 St. Catharines, Ont. To Pincock, Jenny From Spence, Ethel M. Notes ALs
- Date and Place from 1936 November 2 London, Ont. To Pincock, Jenny From Spence, Ethel M. Notes ALs
- Date and Place from 1936 July 8 Winnipeg, Man. To Pincock, Jenny From Wood, W.R. Notes ALs
- Date and Place from 1936 September 25 Holdcomb, N.Y. To Pincock, Jenny From Wright, Harry M. Notes TLs
- Date and Place from 1936 August 13 Pennside, Penna. To Pincock, Jenny From Young, H. Meritt Notes TLs
- Date and Place from 1936 September 2 Columbus, Ohio To Pincock, Jenny From Zeise, Hilda Notes TLs
- Date and Place from 1936 November 2 Kitchener, Ont. To Papa, Fidella Dinsmore From Pincock, Jenny Notes TLs. (draft)
- Date and Place from 1936 November 12 Kitchener, Ont. To Remmers, John Henry From Pincock, Jenny Notes TLs (draft)
- Date and Place from 1936 August 4 Painesville, Ohio To Pincock, Jenny From Smith, Amanda M. Notes ALs, Rec'd while J.P. was Secretary of the Lily Dale Assembly
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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).