NOTE: I have no connection, no further information and am not seeking additional information. 11267 MERCER CO – REV.BURNET JOHNSON PINKERTON – Pinkerton, Grant, Garfield, Littig, Peebles, Martin, Clark, Bashford, Ball, Crutcher, Price, Stone, Walker 11267 Kentucky Genealogy and Biography, Volume V, Battle – Perrin – Kniffin, 4th ed. Mercer Co. REV. BURNET JOHNSON PINKERTON was born April 12, 1843, in Lexington, Ky.; in 1844 removed with his parents to Midway; in 1860 to Harrodsburg Junction, Mercer County, where he now resides. His father, Rev. Lewis L. Pinkerton, M. D., a native of Baltimore, Md., was born January 28, 1812, and while enjoying but limited facilities, by his own efforts and untiring zeal he mastered the sciences and obtained a superior education. He attended medical lectures at Cincinnati and graduated at the Medical Department of the Transylvania University, Lexington, Ky. In 1836 he practiced his profession at Carthage, Ohio, and in 1838 commenced preaching in the Christian Church. In 1839 he removed to Brunerstown, Ky., and engaged in general evangelistic work. In 1840 he located at New Union Church, Woodford County, and in 1841 became pastor at Lexington; moved thence to Midway, in 1844, and opened a female school. In 1845 he labored for the establishment of his school, the Baconian Institute, was pastor of the church, and raised funds for the female orphan school at Midway. In 1849 he edited the Christian Mirror, and in 1853-4, the Kentucky department of the Christian Age. In 1854 he edited the New Era, a temperance paper published at Lexington. In 1860 he became professor of English literature, Kentucky University, Harrodsburg, and in 1862 was surgeon of the Eleventh Kentucky Cavalry. In 1865 he removed, with the University, to Lexington; in 1866 was agent of the Freedmen’s Bureau, and in 1867 delivered a course of lectures at Hiram College, Ohio. In 1868-9 he published the Independent Monthly, and in 1873 was, by President Grant, appointed special mail agent for Kentucky. Abounding in labors, untiring in zeal, unflinching in integrity, and a patriotism that knew no wavering, this friend of humanity laid down his life at Lexington, January 28, 1875. His biography has been published in which President Garfield says of him: “In his nature was the rarest combination of independence, strength, courage, severity, gentleness, inflexible persistency, affectionate tenderness, sadness and jollity, I have ever known.” He was the son of William Pinkerton, born in Chester County, Penn., 1780, a captain in the war of 1812, who died at Midway, Ky., 1857. His father was John Pinkerton, a native of North of Ireland. William married Elizabeth Littig, daughter of a sea captain (who gave a ninety-nine year lease on Fell’s Point, Baltimore), and their offspring were John W., Rev. William, Rev. Lewis L., Rev. Thomas, Rev. Samuel J., Mary (Peebles), Kate (Martin), Collin M., Rebecca (Clark), Elisha Y. and Sally (Bashford). Lewis L. married March 19, 1833, Sarah, daughter of Stephen A. Ball, of Trenton, Ohio (born December 29, 1813, died in Lexington February 11, 1878), and from their union sprang Susan (deceased), Mary J. (deceased), William W. (deceased), Virginia L. (Crutcher), Burnet J., James P., Samuel D., Lewis L., and Mary B. (Price). July 17, 1867, subject married Miss Sallie, daughter of William J. and Sallie (Stone) Walker, of Richmond, born January 5, 1847, and to them have been born Mary P., Charlie W. (deceased), William W., Burnet B., Sallie S., Lewis L., and Percival P. (deceased). In 1863 subject graduated at the Kentucky University, Harrodsburg. He taught school in Jessamine and Fayette Counties, and was three years in charge of the male academy at Richmond. In 1863 he was ordained a preacher in the Christian Church, at Harrodsburg, and in 1868 was pastor at East Cleveland, Ohio, and in 1870 at New Castle, Penn. In 1871-2 he taught the male academy at Harrodsburg, and in 1873 at Richmond. In 1874 he became principal of the Female Institute at Richmond, where he remained six years, and in 1882 became pastor at Eureka, Ill. He is now engaged in farming, having 143 acres of very productive land, in a high state of cultivation. In politics Mr. Pinkerton is a Republican and a Prohibitionist. KYBIOGRAPHIES Archives: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index?list=kybiographies KYRESEARCH: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.kentucky.tips/mb.ashx