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 PENNOYER

PEXXYPACKER

PENNOYER, Sylvester, governor of Oregon, was born in Groton, N.Y.. July 6, 1831 ; son of Justus Powers and Elizabeth (Howland) Pen- noyer, and a descendant of Robert Pennoyer, who came to Massachusetts in 1G70 and left real estate yielding £40 annually, to Harvard college. He was graduated at Homer academy, at Harvard law school in 1854, and in 1855 moved to Oregon, where he was married to Mary A. Allen of Port- land. He engaged in teaching school, 1855-60, and subsequently in lumbering. He was editor of the Oregon Herald, 1868-71 : was elected gov- ernor of Oregon in 18S6 and 1890, serving 1887-95, and was mayor of Portland. 1896. He died in Portland. OrJgon, May 30, 1902.

PENNYBACKER, Isaac Samuels, senator, was born in Slieiiandoah county, Va., Sept. 3, 1805; son of Benjamin and Sarah (Samuels) Penny- backer ; grandson of Capt. Dirck, a Revolutionary war officer, and Hannah (De Haven) Penny- backer, and a descendant of Hendrick and Eve (Umstat) Pannebecker. the founders of the family in America. Isaac S. Pennybacker matriculated at Washington college, Va., but did not graduate ; studied in the Winchester law school ; was ad- mitted to the bar, and settled in practice in Har- risonburg, Va. He was married in May, 1832, to Sarah A., daughter of Col. Zebulon Dyer. He was a Democratic representative from the fourteenth Virginia district in the 25th congress, 1837-39, and was judge of the U.S. district court of West- ern Virginia, 1839-45. He declined the office of U.S. attorney-genei'al, that of justice of the supreme court of Virginia, and the nomination of the Democratic party for governor of the state. He was elected to the U.S. senate in 1845, succeeding W. C. Rives, his term to expire March 3, 1851. He was appointed a regent of the Smithsonian Institution by President Polk. He died in Wash- ington, D.C., Jan. 12, 1847.

PENNY PACKER, Galusha, soldier, was born at Valley Forge, Pa., June 1, 1844; son of Joseph, junior, and Tamson Amelia (Workizer) Penny- packer, and grandson of Joseph and Elizabeth (Funk^ Pennypacker, and of John and Sarah (Rooks) Workizor. His father was a volunteer aide on the staff of General Worth during the Mexican war, and his great-grandfather, Mat- thias Pennypacker, was a bij^hop of the Menno- nite church and grandson of Hendrick Panne- becker, the immigrant, a native of Holland, a surveyor for the Penns, and a large landholder in Pennsylvania. Galusha Pennypacker attended the Phoenixville Classical institute and left school in April, 1861. to enter the army as a non-com- missioned staff officer in the 9tli Pennsylvania three months' volunteers. At the close of his enlistment he entered the volunteer army for the war, Aug. 22, 1861, as captain in the 97th

Pennsylvania volunteers ; was promoted major, Oct. 7, 1861, and served in tlie 10th army corps, department of the south, 1862-65, commanding his regiment in the 1st brigade, in Gen. A. H. Terry's seige operations on Morris Island, S. C, August-September, 1863. He commanded a most successful expedition against Woodstock Mills, Fla., in Feb- ruary, 1864, and in April, 1864, was placed in command of the post at Fer- nandina, having been promoted lieutenant- colonel, April 3, 1864. He was transferred to the Army of the James under Gen. B. F. Butler, and was promoted colonel, June 23, 1864. He was in action at.

Swift's Creek, May 9 ; Drewrys Bluff, May 16, and Chester Station, May 18, 1864. He com- manded his regiment in the charge upon Pickett's division at Green Plains, May 20 ; lost 176 of 295 men ; was carried off the field after receiving three wounds, and was in the hospital at Fort Monroe for three months. He was assigned to the command of the 2d brigade, 2d division, 10th corps in September, 1864, and took part in the engagements at Deep Bottom, Strawberry Plain and Malvern Hill ; in the trenches before Peters- burg, and in the capture of New Market Heights. He was wounded and his horse shot under him in an unsuccessful attempt to capture Fort Gilmer ; was in command of the 2d brigade, 2d division, 24th corps before Petersburg in December, 1864, and took part in Gen. B. F. Butler's unsuccessful effort to capture Fort Fisher, N.C.. Dec. 25, 1864, and in the capture of the fort bj' General Terry, Jan. 15, 1865. He was the first brigade com- mander to gain the third traverse of the fort, where he planted the flag of his old regiment, the 97th Pennsylvania, and desperately wounded, fell inside of the fort, followed and rescued by his men. He was in the hospital at Fort Monroe for ten months. General Terry declared that but for his bravery the assault would probably have failed, and designated him the real " hero of Fort Fisher." He was brevetted brigadier-general of volunteers, Jan. 15, 1865 ; was promoted to that rank Feb. 18, 1865, and brevetted major-general of volunteers, March 13, 1865. The medal of honor was conferred on him by congress for dis- tinguished bravery in the battle, arid he was ap- pointed colonel of the 34th U.S. infantry, July 28, 1866 ; soon transferred to the 16th U.S. infantry ;