Photograph of Abner Eli Pinney from Graduation

This photograph commemorates the graduation of Abner Eli Pinney (b. 1903, d. 1974) from Worthington High School in 1920. Pinney was the part of fourth generation of Pinney men in Worthington, descending from Scioto Company member Captain Abner Pinney (great-grandfather), Abner Henry Pinney (grandfather) and Nathan Pinney, Sr. (father). He married Letta Decker Pinney in 1933 and they raised their family in a home on West State Street. Pinney was Vice President and Resident Manager of the Rutherford-Corbin Funeral Home and was involved in many civic activities, including several Masonic organizations and was a Trustee of Walnut Grove Cemetery.