Charles Stinson (1800–1878) was a two-time member of the New Hampshire legislature.
Stinson, a military captain, was from Goffstown, New Hampshire. He was the father of four children, Jane, Letitia, Susan, and Mary. Mary was the wife of Minneapolis industrialist Charles Alfred Pillsbury.[1]
Charles Pillsbury was influential in naming a street after the Stinson family in Stinson Boulevard, Minneapolis.