Matthew Wright Pinkerton and Elizabeth Harrold

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Husband Matthew Wright Pinkerton ¹

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         Father: Richard Pinkerton (1775-      ) 1
         Mother: Sarah McMillen (1781-      ) 1

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       Marriage: 20 May 1841 1

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Wife Elizabeth Harrold ¹

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Children

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1 F Martha Jane Pinkerton ^{2 3}

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         Spouse: James Stewart McClelland (1850-      ) 2 3

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General Notes: Husband - Matthew Wright Pinkerton

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He was a man of great executive and administrative ability, at one time owning and personally managing six large farms of thousands of acres. He also operated a foundry, paper mills, and large woolen mills. He served three consecutive terms as Treasurer of Wayne County, Ohio, during which time he moved his large family to Wooster. He was a great lover of horses, always having a number of riding horses and several tan-bark rings for the amusement of his children and friends.

He and his wife became the parents of four sons and six daughters.

1 Thomas Lynch Montgomery, LL.D., Encyclopedia of Pennsylvania Biography, Vol. 15 (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1924), Pg 179.

2 Thomas Lynch Montgomery, LL.D., Encyclopedia of Pennsylvania Biography, Vol. 15 (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1924), Pg 177.

3 Jane Maria Craig, Samuel Craig, Senior, Pioneer to Western Pennsylvania, and His Descendants (Greensburg, PA: Privately printed, 1915), Pg 85.