When Meader B. Pinkham was born on 1 March 1864, in Lincoln, Penobscot, Maine, United States, his father, James Pinkham Jr., was 39 and his mother, Caroline A. Farrar, was 42.
English (Devon): variant of Pincombe, probably a habitational name from a lost farm in Molland, Devon. Pencomb presumably denoted ‘valley with a pen or animal enclosure’ (Old English penn + cumb).
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