George H. Pinckney Biography


	This biography appears on pages 679 in "History of South 
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	GEORGE H. PINCKNEY, the able and popular auditor of Grant county, 
has been a resident of the state since 1887 and has attained prestige 
and success through his well directed efforts. He was born in Onondaga 
county, New York, on the 1st of January, 1867, and is a son of James G. 
and Mary E. (Wood) Pinckney, who were likewise born and reared in the 
old Empire state of the Union, where they maintained their home until 
1869, when they removed to Fillmore county, Minnesota, where the father 
of the subject engaged in farming and where the mother still maintains 
her home, his death occurring December 12, 1903. Of their five children 
all are living. 

	George H. Pinckney was a child of but two years at the time of 
his parents' removal to the west, and he was reared to maturity in 
Fillmore county, Minnesota, where he availed himself of the advantages 
of the public schools. After leaving school he was engaged in teaching 
in Minnesota for one year, at the expiration of which, in 1887, he came 
to what is now the state of South Dakota, locating in Lake county, 
where he was engaged in farm work about one and one-half years. On the 
15th of November, 1888, he was there married to Miss Helen Allen, who 
was born in Minnesota, being a daughter of H. W. and Helen (Tucker) 
Allen. Shortly after this important event in his life history Mr. 
Pinckney returned to Minnesota and took up his residence in Fillmore 
county, where he was engaged in farming for the ensuing five years. He 
then, in 1894, came again to South Dakota, and located in Grant county, 
where he became the owner of a fine farm of one hundred sixty acres, in 
Osceola township. To the improvement and cultivation of this farm, in 
connection with the raising of live stock, he continued to give his 
attention until his election to his present office, in the fall of 
1902, and he still retains possession of the farm, which is one of the 
attractive rural demesnes of this section of the state. In politics Mr. 
Pinckney has ever been found staunchly arrayed in support of the 
principles and policies of the Republican party, taking an active 
interest in the promotion of its cause, while on its ticket he secured 
a flattering endorsement at the polls on the occasion of his election 
to the office of county auditor. He is affiliated with Milbank Camp, 
No. 1887, Modern Woodmen of America, and he is also a Master Mason. 
They have four children, Hazel I., Nada, Gladys and Francis M.