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GRANDISON PINCKARD, saddler, Georgetown, ex-Recorder of Brown County, was born in Mason County, Ky., April 10, 1813. His father, William Pinckard, was a native of Loudoun County, Va., who located in Mason County, Ky., in 1806. He married Elizabeth Duff, a native of Fauquier County, Va., who departed this life in 1815, leaving ten children, five daughters and five sons. Of these three are now living, Mrs. Donavin, of Bracken County, Ky.; William Pinckard, of Lewis County, Ky., and our subject. After seven or eight years, Mr. Pinckard again married a widow Mrs. Estep. He removed to Cincinnati, where he died a few years later. The subject of this sketch was reared on a farm in Mason County, and early learned the saddler’s trade, at Washington, in his native county; he served a four years’ apprenticeship, then worked as a jour three months, and finally commenced in business for himself, at Germantown, Ky. In 1859, he located at Higginsport, in Brown County, Ohio, where he carried on his business for fifteen years. Mr. Pinckard was raised a Whig, and voted with that party until 1852; he then became a Know-Nothing, and was subsequently an Abolitionist, and connected with the Union party. In 1875, he was elected Recorder of Brown County, and re-elected in 1878, his second term expiring in January, 1882. Of late years, he has been a Republican, and, at present, is connected with the stalward branch of that party. While a resident of Kentucky, he was a Magistrate of Germantown, previous to 1852, and under the old Constitution of the State. Mr. Pinckard commenced life without a dollar, but by energy and economy, has succeeded very well in life; he is a member of the Masonic Lodge at Higginsport, and for five years has been the Agent in Georgetown of the Masonic Mutual Benefit Association of Maysville, Ky. Mr. Pinckard has been connected with the Methodist Episcopal Church for fifty-two years. He was united in marriage, November 3, 1836, to Sarah P. Downing, a native of Mason County, Ky. They had six children born to them, all natives of Bracken County, Ky., and three of whom are living—Sarah E. (wife of J. H. Chandler, of Georgetown), Hattie I. (wife of R. J. Bancroft, of Batavia, Ohio), and Joseph W., a blacksmith of Higginsport. Mrs. Pinckard departed this life December 28, 1880, after a union of forty-four years. She was a consistent member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and on the birthday of the New Year, 1881, was laid at rest by a large circle of mourning friends and acquaintances.