. History of Steuben County, New York, with illustrations and biographical sketches of some of its prominent men and pioneers. Steuben, Friedrich Wilhelm Ludolf Gerhard Augustin, Baron von, 1730-1794. AARON PINNEY. MRS. AARON PINNEY. AAEON PINNEY was born in Galway, Saratoga Co., N. Y., Aug. 28, 1801. His father, Philander Pinney, with his brother Joseph set- tled in Saratoga County soon after the close of the Revolu- tionary war; another brother, Alexander, settling in New Canaan, Columbia Co. His father was a farmer by occu- pation ; was married to Lucy Phelps, a native of Con- necticut, of
. History of Steuben County, New York, with illustrations and biographical sketches of some of its prominent men and pioneers. Steuben, Friedrich Wilhelm Ludolf Gerhard Augustin, Baron von, 1730-1794. AARON PINNEY. MRS. AARON PINNEY. AAEON PINNEY was born in Galway, Saratoga Co., N. Y., Aug. 28, 1801. His father, Philander Pinney, with his brother Joseph set- tled in Saratoga County soon after the close of the Revolu- tionary war; another brother, Alexander, settling in New Canaan, Columbia Co. His father was a farmer by occu- pation ; was married to Lucy Phelps, a native of Con- necticut, of which union were born four sons,—Philander, Martin, Calvin, and Aaron,—and five daughters,—Mrs. Enoch Cornell, Mrs. John Phelps, Lura, Louisa, and Mary. Of these children only the subject of this sketch and Louisa are living. The father died in 1817 at the age of fifty-seven. The mother died April 14, 1849, at the age of eighty-five. Mr. Pinney remained at home, working on the farm, and attending school a part of the time—winters—until he reached his majority, at which time he came to the town of Prattsburgh (1822) and purchased some eighty acres of land, which he soon sold, and bought one hundred and thirteen acres on the county line in the north part of the town. He was married, January, 1826, to Sophronia, an adopted daughter of Jeduthan Higby, of Prattsburgh, and settled on his farm. The log house, the monotony of clear- ing off the forest, the necessary privation of the early set- tler, the economy and prudence required in order to make a favorable balance at the end of each year, were all ex- periences of Mr. and Mrs. Pinney. He resided on this farm for some ten years and then purchased one hundred and seventy acres, one and a half miles from the village, on which he resided mainly as long as he carried on farming. In 1854 he sold this farm and moved into the village of Prattsburgh, where he has resided nearly all the time since. Besides his farming interest, Mr
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