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Correspondence : permission letters for Trails of Truth.
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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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Contains signed consent forms from sitters at seances giving permission for Jenny Pincock to publish their names.
- Date and Place from 1930 December 27 St Catharines, Ont. To Maines, Minnie And Fred From Thompson, William James et al. Attachments Includes letter of permission from Lloyd A. Werden and Hilda R. Beck Werden. Includes envelope, without stamp. Notes ACs. Letters of permission for publication. Additional signatories Lloyd A. Werden Hilda R. Beck Werden
- Date and Place from 1929 October 12 Toronto, Ont. To Pincock, Jenny From E[?illegible], Chas Notes ACs. Letters of permission for publication.
- Date and Place from 1929 October 12 Toronto, Ont. To Pincock, Jenny From Forster, C. C.. Notes ACs. Letters of permission for publication.
- Date and Place from [193-?] [s.l.] To Pincock, Jenny From Stewart, Frank S. et al.. Notes ACs. Letters of permission for publication. Additional signatories Charles E. Sheffield Ph.g. Lillian McLean Reg. N.
- Date and Place from [193-?] [s.l.] To Pincock, Jenny From Stewart, H. W. et al.. Notes ACs. Letters of permission for publication. Additional signatories Ivia Woodley Grace Alyesworth Gladys Ross
- Date and Place from 1929 October 28 [s.l.] To Pincock, Jenny From M[? illegible]. Notes ACs. Letters of permission for publication.
- Date and Place from 1929 October 1 Niagara County, N.Y. To Pincock, Jenny From Aylesworth, Grace. Notes ACs. Letters of permission for publication. M. J. Brown as Notary.
- Date and Place from [1929?] [s.l.] To Pincock, Jenny From F. T. E. et al.. Notes ACs. Letters of permission for publication. Additional signatories Jean E. Tye Lulu Smith Margaret L. Smith
- Date and Place from 1929 July 15 [s.l.] To Pincock, Jenny From Calder, R. C.. Notes ACs. Letters of permission for publication. Subject Degree attained of Miss Maas.
- Date and Place from 1929 August 21 Hamilton, Ont. To Pincock, Jenny From Facey, G. L.. Notes ACs. Letters of permission for publication.
- Date and Place from 1929 July 17 Toronto, Ont. To Pincock, Jenny From Maas, Dorothy. Notes ACs. Letters of permission for publication.
- Date and Place from [1929?] [s.l.] To Pincock, Jenny From Alexander, Blanche V. O'Hara et al.. Notes ACs. Letters of permission for publication. Additional signatories W. P. J. Alexander M.D. Aileen O'Hara Vanderwater Myrtle O'Hara Kincaid Robert Newton Kincaid A. Kincaid Louisa J.H. Martina
- Date and Place from [1929?] [s.l.] To Pincock, Jenny From Woodley, Freeman L.. Notes ACs. Letters of permission for publication.
- Date and Place from [1929?] Niagra Falls, N.Y. To Pincock, Jenny From Sheffield, Charles E.. Notes ACs. Letters of permission for publication.
- Date and Place from [1929?] [s.l.] To Pincock, Jenny From Colgan, E. M.. Notes ACs. Letters of permission for publication.
- Date and Place from [1929?] [s.l.] To Pincock, Jenny From G[?illegible], H. L.. Notes ACs. Letters of permission for publication.
- Date and Place from 1929 July 10 Grimsby, Ont. To Pincock, Jenny From Calder, R. C.. Notes ACs. Letters of permission for publication. Letter also includes reference to "Chas Calder" and his possible funeral 3 weeks prior.
- Date and Place from [1929?] [s.l.] To Pincock, Jenny From Smith, C[? illegible] et al.. Notes ACs. Letters of permission for publication. Additional signatories Verna L. Smith
- Date and Place from [1929?] [s.l.] To Pincock, Jenny From McKinley, Margaret et al.. Notes ACs. Letters of permission for publication. Additional signatories Mary De Biasi Laura De Biasi Lillian McLean Reg. N. Iva Secord Enid Nicholson Wm. Nicholson Blanche L. Baker Charls H. Mussett
- Date and Place from [1929?] [s.l.] To Pincock, Jenny From Hetherington, F. E. et al.. Notes ACs. Letters of permission for publication. Additional signatories H. A. Hetherington (Mrs. D. O.) J. G. Somerville Ivia Woodley (Mrs. F. I) J. W. Elson (Mrs. M.) Gwendolyn Poole Arthur Robinson Beatrice Robinson Lois C. Hetherington
- Date and Place from [1929?] [s.l.] To Pincock, Jenny From Jones, Evelyn M. et al.. Notes ACs. Letters of permission for publication. Additional signatories Grace Aylesworth
- Date and Place from [1929?] [s.l.] To Pincock, Jenny From Hetherington, D.C.. Notes ACs. Letters of permission for publication.
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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).