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Correspondence : Beatrice Post Candler and Jenny Pincock.
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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 1929 October 16 New York, N.Y. To Pincock, Jenny From Candler, Beatrice Post Attachments Includes a blue note, marked "absolutely private" Notes ALs
- Date and Place from [193-?] [New York, N.Y.?] To Pincock, Jenny From Candler, Beatrice Post. Notes ALs. A Christmas card, with a shadow image of the nativity scene, by "brownie's blockprints", with "Noel! Noel!" quoted on front.
- Date and Place from [193-?] April 29 New York, N.Y. To Pincock, Jenny From Candler, Beatrice Post Notes ALs.
- Date and Place from [193-?] March 18 [New York, N.Y.?] To Pincock, Jenny From Candler, Beatrice Post Notes ALs.
- Date and Place from [193-?] May 2 [New York, N.Y. ?] To Pincock, Jenny From Candler, Beatrice Post Notes ALs.
- Date and Place from [193-?] December 15 New York, N.Y. To Pincock, Jenny From Candler, Beatrice Post Notes ALs. A Christmas theme note card.
- Date and Place from [193-?] December 19 New York, N.Y. To Pincock, Jenny From Candler, Beatrice Post Notes ALs
- Date and Place from [193-?] Los Angeles, Cal. To Pincock, Jenny From Candler, Beatrice Post Notes ALs. A Poem entitled "Courage", by Beatrice Post Candler. "Hotel Maryfair" written on top.
- Date and Place from [193-?] [New York, N.Y.?] To Pincock, Jenny From Candler, Beatrice Post Notes ALs. A Poem entitled "In Silence", by Beatrice Post Candler.
- Date and Place from [1935?] [New York, N.Y.] To Pincock, Jenny From Candler, Beatrice Post Notes A magazine clipping of a poem by Beatrice Post Candler, entitled "New Year's Eve At The Radio".
- Date and Place from 1931 [New York, N.Y.] To Pincock, Jenny From Candler, Beatrice Post Notes A pamphlet advertising the book of poetry "Life's Garden" by Beatrice Post Candler, by "The Mosher Press". Pamphlet also includes reviews of the book.
- Date and Place from [1936 December] [New York, N.Y.] To Pincock, Jenny From Candler, Beatrice Post Notes PC. Post Card with the image entitled: "New York in Colour:--The Maelstrom of Humanity," by Trapier.
- Date and Place from [193-?] December New York, N.Y. To Pincock, Jenny From Candler, Beatrice Post Notes A small note card with Christmas greetings.
- Date and Place from [193-?] January 7 [New York, N.Y.?] To Pincock, Jenny From Candler, Beatrice Post Notes ALs.
- Date and Place from [193-?] [New York, N.Y.?] To Pincock, Jenny From Candler, Beatrice Post Attachments Contains a postcard of the Central Park reflecting pool, written on front "58th 59th & 60th streets on Fifth Ave". Notes ALs. A Christmas card, with an image of New York, with "Christmas Greetings" printed on front.
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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).