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 PENNYPACKER

PENROSE

brevetted brigadier-general and major-general U.S.A., March 2, 1867, and placed on the retired list of the regular army on account of disability from wounds received in action, July 3, 1885. Prior to his retirement he saw considerable ser- vice in the regular army, in command at various posts in the south and west. He was wounded seven times within eight months : was the young- est officer to hold the full rank of general in the volunteer army, and the youngest officer in the regular army to hold the rank of colonel and brevet major-general.

PENNYPACKER, Samuel Whitaker, jurist, was born in Phoenixville, Pa., April 9, 1843 ; son of Dr. Isaac and Anna Maria (Whitaker) Penny- packer ; grandson of Bishop Matthias and Sarah (Anderson) Penny packer, and of Joseph and Grace Whitaker, and a descendant of Hendrick and Eve (Umstat) Pann ebecker. Hendrick Panne- becker emigrated from Homborn, on the upper Rhine, to Pennsylvania, about 1699, and settled on Skippack Creek, where he became a large landholder and surveyor of public lands for the Penns. Samuel Whitaker Pennypacker was edu- cated in the West Philadelphia institute ; served as a private in the 26th emergency regiment in 1863, and was graduated at the University of Pennsylvania, LL.B., in 1866. He was married, Oct. 20, 1870, to Virginia Earl, daughter of Nathan B. Broomall, of Phoenixville, Pa. He was made president of the Law Academy of Philadelphia in 1868 ; served on the board of public education of Philadelphia and was controller of public schools for the 29th ward, 1886-89, and was ad- mitted to practice in the U.S. supreme court in 1887. He was judge of the court of common pleas of Pliiladelphia, by appointment under Governor Beaver to fill a vacancy, 1889-90, and by election, 1890-1900, and served as president judge of the court. In 1902 he was elected gov- ernor of Pennsylvania by the Republican party. He was elected a member of numerous scientific, historical and patriotic societies ; was a trustee of the University of Pennsylvania from 1886 ; state commissioner of the Valley Forge reserva- tion ; founder and manager of the Pennsylvania society, Sons of the Revolution ; a vice-provost of the Philadelphia Law academy, and a member of the supervisory committee on the restoration of Independence Hall. He received the honor- ary degree of LL.B. from Franklin and Marshall college. In his library he collected about 7000 printed books on early Pennsylvania, of which 260 were from the press of Benjamin Franklin, and his collection relating to the German coloni- zation of Pennsylvania was the largest ever made. He compiled, together with E. G. Piatt and Samuel S. Hollingswortli, a Digest of the Eng- lish Common Lata Reports (1879); Pennypacker' s

Supreme Court Cases (4 vols.); Pennsylvania Colonial Cases, and aided in the preparation of Weekly Notes of Cases (40 vols.). He is the author of the Annals of Phoenixville and Its Vicinity (1878); Tiie Penyiypacher Reunion {\Q1S); Histor- ical and Biographical Sketches, many of which have been translated in Dutch and German ( 1883), and Tlie Settlement of Gerviantown.

PENROSE, Boies, senator, was born in Phila- delphia, Pa., Nov. 1, 1860 ; son of Dr. Richard Alexander and Sarah Hannah (Boies) Penrose ; grandson of the Hon. Charles Bingham and Val- eria Fullerton (Biddle) Penrose, and great-grand- son of Clement Biddle Penrose, one of the com- missioners appointed by Jefferson for the Louisi- ana territory. He was graduated at Harvard in 1881, and was admitted to the Philadelphia bar in 1883. He was a representative in the Pennsyl- vania legislature in 1885 ; a member of the state senate, 1887-97, and president pi'o tempore of the senate in 1889 and 1891. He was a Republican U.S. senator from Pennsylvania, 1897-1909, serv- ing as chairman of the committee on immigra- tion, and as a member of many important com- mittees. He contributed several chapters on municipal law to the American and Etiglish En- cyclopcedia of Laiv, and with Edward P. Allinson wrote : Philadelphia ; a History of Municipal De- velopment (1887).

PENROSE, Stephen Beasley Linnard, edu- cator, was born in Philadelphia, Pa., Dec. 20, 1864; son of the Hon. Clement Biddle and Mary (Linnard) Penrose ; grandson of the Hon. Charles Bingham and Valeria Fullerton (Biddle) Penrose, and of Stephen Beasley and Emily (L.) Linnard. He was graduated from Williams college in 1885, and from Yale, B.D., 1890. He taught school at Pottstovvn, Pa., 1885-86; was instructor of Greek and elocution at Williams college, 1886-87, and in 1890 was sent as home missionary by the Congre- gational Home Missionary society to Dayton, Washington. He was pastor of the Congrega- tional church at Dayton, 1890-94, and in 1894 was elected president of and Cushing Eells professor of mental and moral science at Whitman college, Walla Walla, Wash. He was married in 1896, to Mary Demiug. daughter of Judge Nathaniel Ship- man, of Hartford, Conn. He was made a corpo- rate member of A.B.C.F.M. and honorary member of several religious and educational societies.

PENROSE, William Henry, soldier, was born at Madison Barracks, Sacket Harbor, N.Y., March 10, 1832 ; son of Capt. James Wilkinson, 1808-1849 (U.S.A.) and Mary Ann (Hoffman) Penrose ; grandson of Clement Biddle (1771-1820) and Ann Howard (Bingham) Penrose ; great grandson of James (1737-1778) and Sarah (Biddle) Penrose; greats-grandson of Thomas (1709-1757) and Sarah (Coats) Penrose and greats-grandson