Portrait of Polly Morrison Pinney

This portrait of Polly Morrison Pinney (1786-1865), drawn with crayon (as chalk was called in the period), was made by an unknown artist, likely in the 1830s. The picture has a companion portriat of Pinney's huband, Abner Putnam Pinney; both are displayed at the Worthington Historical Society's museum, the Orange Johnson House.

Polly Morrison Pinney was born in Blandford, Massachusetts to Alexander Morrison and Mehitable Hall Morrison. She came to Worthington in 1803 with her family. Her father Alexander Morrison was a Scioto Company member. Polly was married to A.P. "Putnam" Pinney on February 10th, 1804 in Worthington's first wedding ceremony, a double wedding in which Levi Pinney also married Charlotte Beach. The Pinneys settled on a farm northwest of Worthington, in what would become Liberty Township, where they raised eight children. Late in life they resided with their daughter Florina Brooks on a farm north of Dublin, Ohio.