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PINNEY, Norman, clergyman, born in Simsbury, Connecticut, 21 October, 1800; died in New Orleans, Louisiana, 1 October, 1862. He was graduated at Yale in 1823, and then studied for the ministry of the Protestant Episcopal church under Bishop Thomas C. Brown-ell, by whom he was ordained. In 1824 he became tutor at Washington (now Trinity) college, and in 1826 he was made professor of ancient languages, which chair he then held for five years. He was called to the charge of a church in Mobile in 1831, but, becoming a Unitarian, he resigned, and in 1839 attempted to found a college in that city. This project failed on account of his inability to secure a satisfactory faculty. In 1852 he was associated with Joseph Rindge in establishing a large boys' school, which was called the Collegiate institute of Mobile. Mr. Pinney was a scholar of no mean ability. He contributed poetry to periodicals, and was the author of a series of text-books, including " First Book in French" (New York): "Key to the Same" ; "Progressive French Reader" ; and " Practical French Reader."
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