Travelling agent, municipal official, educator.
Born at Glasgow, Scotland on 26 January 1874, he came to Canada in 1890 and worked briefly as a teacher in Manitoba, including at Bear Creek School (1896), Ayr School (1896), Preston School (1897), and Gladstone School (1897-1898). On 15 August 1906, he married Lilian Minnie Collins (1876-1955) at Gladstone and had four children: Mary Charlotte Pinn, Philip William Pinn (1908-1968), Lilian Pinn (1909-?, wife of Samuel Joseph Matthews), and Constance Annie Pinn (1913-?).
He worked 24 years as a travelling agent of the John Deere Plow Company, was President of the North West Commercial Travellers’ Association (1931), and lived in Gladstone where he served on Town Council (?-?), the local Board of Trade (?-?), and was on the Board of Stewarts of the Gladstone United Church. He died at his Gladstone residence on 7 October 1938 and was buried in the Gladstone Cemetery.
Birth [Philip William Pinn, Lilian Pinn, Constance Annie Pinn], marriage [Lilian Minnie Collins to William John Pinn, Lilian Pinn to Samuel Joseph Matthews], and death registrations, Manitoba Vital Statistics.
Traveler dies,” Winnipeg Tribune, 12 October 1938, page 7.
“Death of J. W. Pinn,” Gladstone Age, 13 October 1938, page 1.
Beyond Third Crossing by Gladstone Rural History Book Committee, c1987, pages 55, 321, 333.
Gladstone Cemetery burial transcriptions, FindAGrave.
This page was prepared by Nathan Kramer.
Page revised: 11 February 2024
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