Excerpted from 'The Daily Nonpareil', August 11, 1894, p. 1, Council Bluffs, Iowa

"Dr. Pinney was one of the best known and highly respected men in Council
Bluffs.  A man of wide reputation as a physician and surgeon, courteous
and genial as a citizen and neighbor, a model husband and father, he always
bore without reproach the grand old name of gentleman, and was one whom
the city cannot replace and can ill afford to lose.

"Dr. Charles H. Pinney was born in Elyria, Lorain county, Ohio, August 30,
1842, and was of Scotch origin, his great grandfather, John Pinney, emigrat-
ing to this country before the revolution, and he, with his two brothers,
participated in the struggle for independence.  Dr. Pinney was the fourth
of six children of Hurlburt H. Pinney and Malina Abbey Pinney.  The eldest
child, Carrie M. is the wife of Hon. H. G. Horr, ex-congressman from the
state of Michigan; Laura M. is the wife of Rev. Samuel L. Alexander, of
this city; Allen W. is the third child and is a fruit grower near the city;
the next in order of birth was Charles H., the subject of this sketch;
Anson E. is a hardware merchant at Ithaca, Mich.; John H., the youngest,
now resides near Akron, Neb., and is engaged in farming and stock raising.

"Dr. Pinney was brought up on the home farm until the age of 14, when he
entered the Clarkson (Mich.) academy, and afterward entered the scientific
department of the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, ultimately entering
the medical department of the same institution, and graduated in March,
1864.  He immediately entered the army as a surgeon in the 9th Ohio cavalry,
where he served until the close of the war, being mustered out in September,
1865, at Camp Dennison, Ohio.

"After a short visit to his old Ohio home, and with his uncle in Michigan,
with whom he had studied medicine, he went, in the fall of the same year,
to Philadelphia, and continued his studies in the medical department of the
University of Pennsylvania, graduating there the following spring.  In
March of the same year (1866) he came west to locate in Omaha and 'grow up
with the town,' where he remained until 1875.  In that year he removed to
Council Bluffs, where he has since lived and practiced his profession.

"September 15, 1870, Dr. Pinney married Miss Ella O. Pusey, daughter of the
Hon. W. H. M. Pusey.  Four children were born to them as a result of this
union - three sons and a daughter - William Henry, the eldest, who died at
the age of 4 years, Hurlburt H., Lucille and Frank L.

"Dr. Pinney was, since 1880, the medical examiner and referee of the Mutual
Life Insurance company of New York.  He was also a member of the Council
Bluffs Medical society, a member of the Iowa State Medical society, and of
the Medical Society of the Missouri Valley, and also local surgeon of the
Rock Island Railroad company.  His large experiences as an army surgeon
together with his long years of practice gave to him an enviable position
in his profession, and his taking off just as he had reached the top is all
the more sad."