Photograph of Abner Eli Pinney as infant

This studio portrait captures Abner Eli Pinney (b. 1903, d. 1974) as a three-month-old infant. Abner was the son of Nathan and Alice Crawford Pinney. He was raised in Worthington, were he graduated from Worthington High School in in 1920. Pinney was part of the 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.