Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1902-07-17
ABOUT PENNYPACkER
Some Interesting Facts in the Life
of the Judge.
IS A VERY MODEST GENTLEMAN


Defense of Pennsylvania and Penn.
syIvanians That Awoke Criticism.
(From Our Own Correspondent
Philadelphia, July 15.-The candi-
dacy of Judge Samuel w. Pennypack'
er for governor is bringing to the sur
face a vast number of clever, inter-
esting and characteristic stories of
his life. Men who have known him for
years never fancied that there was
bound up in his personality so much,
that, in any other man with less mod
esty, would have kept his name con-
tinually before the public.
Judge Pennypacker is not only a
learned and upright judge, but he is
an antiquarian, a member of num-
ber of learned societies, the author Of
Il number of legal works, historian
of the Pennsylvania Germans, men,
her of the Grand Army of the Republic
and a member of at least half dozen
of the great patriotic and hereditary
societies of the United States. Above
all, he is a companionable, modest
man, who has never presumed upon
his distinction in public or in private
life. A capital and characteristic
story of his good nature was published
some time ago, as follows:
Judge Pennypacker's summer home
is out in Montgomery county, on the
banks of the Perkiomen. 1t was owned
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headquarters of General Washington.
The region around the Perkiomen is
very popular with fashionable Phila-
delphia summer boarders. On his way
to and from his farm these summer
days no one would suspect that the I'M
obtrusive gentleman, deeply engaged
in the perusal of book or magazine
in the car seat was the distinguished
Judge Pennypacker, of Philadelphia.
Going out home the other night, seat
ed directly behind Judge Pennypacker,
was fashionably dressed woman from
the city, who carried a small hand
satchel. and had beside her in the seat
a very large dress suit case.
AS the train approached College
to leave the car AS the train slowed
up she reached over the back of the
seat, tapped Judge Pennypacker light
ly on the shoulder, and said:
II wish you would carry my dress
suit case out for me, please"
The Judge, who was busy reading
magazine, looked up, and thinking
some mistake had been made, re-
sumed his book. The woman persist
ed, and again tapping him on the
shoulder said sharply, with something
like command in her tone:
Il wish you would carry this dress
suit case for me to the platform"
Laying down his book, the Judge
arose, seized the grip, carried 1t out,
sat it down on the platform and was
about to re-enter the car, when the
woman offered him a piece of silver
for his trouble. The judge raised his
hat and laughingly said:
No | thank you; it was not a
trouble, but a pleasure"
AS the train pulled away and the
woman was told who her distinguished
burden bearer was she became so
flustered that she walked all the way
to the hotel instead of going in the bus.
Judge Pennypacker's full name is
Samuel Whitaker Pennypacker. On
his fathers side he is a descendant of
Hendrick Pannebecker, who was sur
veyor for the Penns, and who came to
this country the latter part of the
seventeenth century On the same
side he is descended from Samuel
Richardson, an early settler In Phila-
delphia, provincial counsellor, a
member of the assembly, and a Judge
of the court of common pleas. quarter
sessions of the peace and orphans
court, his commission for the latter
office dating from December II. 1858.
By the marriage of Samuel Richard
sons son, Joseph, to Elizabeth, daugh
ter of John Bevan, who came to this
country in 1858 with a party of Cymric
Quakers and settled in Merton. the line
is preserved intact The Pennypack-
ers and their kin on collateral lines
have been residents of Eastern Penn
sylvania for over 200 years.
Samuel Whitaker Pennypacker was
born in PhoeniXville, Pa, April 8,
1913. He is a son of DR.. Isaac Ander-
son Pennypacker, who was graduated
in medicine from the University of
Pennsylvania in 1885, and was profes-
sor OF the theory and practice Of medi-
cine in the Philadelphia Medical Col
lege from 1854 until his death is Feb
ruary. 1856.
Judge Pennypacker received his
early education in Saunders Institute
in West Philadelphia, famous old in
stitution in it's day, and at the Grove
mont Seminary at Proenixville, Pa.
He began the study of law in the Of
fee of Hon. Peter Mccall, of Philadel-
phia, who was his Office. preceptor; al
though at the same time, in 1864, he
entered the law school of the Univer-
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