The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-05-06


uncover insurgent sentiment. Neverthe-
less it iustifles interest in Judge Penny
packers personality and record. We
append q biographical sketch taken
from the Pittsburg Gazette:
Judge Pennypacker was born April
., 1913, in Phoenixville, of family
whose genealogical record reads like a
list of all the Tcutonic settlers who ever
gave Germantown its name. The foun-
der of the family in America was Hen
drick Pannebecker Q6I4-1I54, who was
land surveyor under the Penns and took
an active part in the early administra-
tive affairs. The judges father, Isaac
Anderson Pennypacker. was distin-
guished Philadelphia physician, a pro-
fessor in the college of medicine. and
his grandfather, Matthias Pennypacker,
sat in the state assembly and in the
constitutional convention of 1887. His
mother was Anna Whitaker, the daugh-
ter of d Pennsylvania iron master.
"IIe received his education at the
GrovemOnt seminary in PhoeniXVile
and at the West Philadelphia institute,
where he was prepared for Yale COL
lege. In 1863, when he was just 90, came
the civil war, and young Pennypacker
went to the front as Il private with
the Twenty-sixth Emergency regiment.
| When the war closed he, studied law
and his success was far out of the ordi-
nary. He was admitted to the Phila-
| delphia bar in 1866, after preparing him
self in the Office of Peter Mccall and in
| the law school of the University of
Pennsylvania. Within two years after
| commencing active practice he was
| elected president of the Law Academy
! of Philadelphia. About that time he
commenced the series of important
legal compilations with which his name
is associated. He edited. with f. G..
Platt and Samuel G. Hollingsworth. n
| Digest of the English Common Law
Reports 1S79). He collected, in four
volumes, 'Pennypacker's Supreme Court
Cases IA volume of Pennsylvania col
| onial cases, and assisted in the bring
ing out of the Weekly Notes of Cases,
a work which embraces forty volumes.
"He was admitted in 1887 to practice
in the United States Supreme court and
| when Judge James r. Mitchell was ele-
| waited to the Supreme court in 1889 Gov
ernor Beaver appointed Pennypacker to
the vacant place on the bench of the
court of common pleas. He was re-
garded as so eminently suitable for
| the place that the following autumn he
was elected by both parties by what
amounted to unanimous vote for Il
ten-year term and was reelected two
years ago: He is one of the Vice-presi-
dents of the Philadelphia Law academy.
"As Il historian of his native state,
and especially of the German american
colonization movement within its bor-
ders, Judge Pennypacker is acknowl-
edged to stand pre-eminent. He has
written over fifty books and papers on
this line of research, OF which u number
have undergone Dutch and German
translations. Among them are the AN
nails of PhoeniXville and Its Vicinity
The Pennypacker Reunion QS7S), His
torical and Biographical Sketches and
The Settlement of Germantown, Il
highly valuable work, which was pub
lished about two years ago with an
edition limited to $50 copies, of which
all were sold within two weeks. His
library contains Il most remarkable col
lection of the first books printed in
Pennsylvania. to the number of 7,O00
and of these 25O are from Benjamin
Franklin's press. 1t is said that he has
the best collection eXtant of books re-
lating to the German colonization of
PENNSYLVANIA.
"His interest in educational matters
has been always very strong. From
| 1856 to 1889 he was a member of the
board of public education of Philadel-
| phia, and was controller of public
schools for the Twenty-ninth ward
| Franklin and Marshall college bestowed
on him the degree of LII. ID. He has
been for a long time n trustee of the
University of Pennsylvania.
ITO give some idea OF the Wilderness
and variousness OF his interests he is
or has been state commissioner for the
Valley Forge reservation, a member of
| the supervisory committee on the res
| toration of Independence hail. president
| of the Pennsylvania Historical society,
of the Pennsylvania German society
and of the Netherlands society of Phila-
| delphia, yice-president OF the Colonial
! society, president of the Philobiblion
club member of the American Philo-
sophical society, the Society of Colonial
Wars, the Society of the War of 1912,
the Deutsche Pioneer verein, Deutsche
gasselschaft, canstS ter volksfest ver-
Elm, Union League club, founder and
| manager of the Pennsylvania Society
| of the Sons of the Revolution, past COM
mander d Taylor post, Grand Army OF
the Republic, and president OF the
Twenty-sixth Pennsylvania Emergency
Regiment association"
1t is evident from ths statement of