GALLIA COUNTY OHIO - BIOS: PINNEY, Edward L. (published 1928)
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WEST VIRGINIA In History, Life, Literature and Industry
The Lewis Publishing Company, Inc., 1928 - Volume IV, page 191-192 w/photo

        EDWARD L. PINNEY. Among the younger members of the banker's calling
in Fayette County, one who has won success and recognition while still in
the early years of his career is Edward L. Pinney, cashier of the Bank of
Gauley Bridge. He has been identified with this institution since 1923,
during which period he has established many friendships, and an excellent
reputation for thoroughness, ability and courtesy, and during his residence
at Gauley Bridge has identified himself with several movements calculated
to redound to the the welfare and progress of the community.
        Mr. Pinney was born at Bidwell, Ohio, October 30, 1898, and is a
son of P.J. and Alice (Russell) Pinney. His father, a native of the Buckeye
State, was given the benefit of a public school education, following which
he secured a position with the Hocking Valley Railway Company, with which
he has been identified to the present. Starting in a humble capacity, by
exercise of natural and acquired ability and constant fidelity to the
interests of the concern he has been promoted step by step until today he
holds the important position of supervisor of maintenance, with his home
and headquarters at Logan, Ohio. He married, Alice Russell, who was born at
Bidwell, Ohio, where she was reared and educated, and has always been
active in the Baptist Church, which she joined in young girlhood. There
were seven children born to this union: Clara, who is the wife of H.C.
Hesse; Louise, the wife of H.F. Scott; Marie, who died in 1921, at the age
of twenty-five years, the wife of W.M. Rupe; Edward L., of this review;
Luther B., who died in 1925, at the age of twenty-five years; Bernice, the
wife of J.P. Stewart; and Pauline, who is attending high school at Logan, Ohio.
        The public schools of Bidwell and Cheshire, Ohio furnished Edward
L. Pinney with his early educational training, following which he entered
Ohio University in 1915, and there spent one year. On leaving this famous
institution at Athens he took a position in the employ of the Firestone
Tire and Rubber Company, and later was a clerk in the offices of the New
York Central Railroad. In 1923 Mr. Pinney accepted the position of
assistant cashier of the Bank of Gauley Bridge, and two years later was
made cashier of the institution, a position which he has since retained.
This bank was organized in 1920 with a capitalization of $40,000, and its
present officers are: C.E. Mahon, Jr., president; L.R. Harliss, vice
president; and Edward L. Pinney, cashier, while the following compose the
Board of Directors; C.E. Mahon, Jr.; L.R. Harliss, physician and surgeon of
Gauley Bridge; Prof. Otway Gunnoe, professor of the Ansted schools of
Gauley Bridge; George T. Lancaster, of Glen Ferris; W.B. Cabell, of Glenn
of Glen Ferris; G.D. Brown, of Gauley Bridge; R.H. Miller, E.H. Nuckalls,
W.O. Crandall, H.B. Clark and Edward L. Pinney. Mr. Pinney is treasurer and
a member of the Board of Directors of the Club Holding Company of
Charleston, the plan of which corporation is to build a club house at
Lovers Leap, Hawk Nest, West Virginia. Fraternally he is a thirty-second
degree Mason and a Shriner of Beni-Keden Temple. He is a Democrat without
personal desire for preferment, and his religious connection is with the
Baptist Church. During the World war he attended the Officers' Training
Camp at Ohio University, and for some time was a member of Gallipolis Post
(Ohio) of the American Legion.
        On August 30, 1924, at Dixie, West Virginia, Mr. Pinney was united
in marriage with Miss May Vencill, of Dixie, who attended the public
schools at Charleston as a member of the class of 1922. The year previous
to her marriage she taught school at Dixie. She is possessed of numerous
accomplishments and is active in the work of the Baptist Church, the Order
of the Eastern Star and the White Shrine. Mrs. Pinney is a daughter of H.G.
and Ruby (McGraw) Vencill, of Dixie. Her father for many years was a
lumberman in West Virginia and for some years previous to his death in
1923, at Dixie, was representative from Nicholas County in the House of
Representatives. Mr. Vencill owned several large tracts of timberland and
was accounted one of the substantial and highly respected men of his
community. Mrs. Vencill survives her husband and continues to make her home
at Dixie, where she is the center of a wide circle of friends. Mr. and Mrs.
Pinney are the parents of two young sons: Edward L., Jr., born November 11,
1925, and Jerome Vencill born December 30, 197. Mr. and Mrs. Pinney are the
owners of a comfortable home at Gauley Bridge.


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