Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-09-04
PENNYPACKER
FUNERAL TUESDAY
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the most prominent men in the State.
follows: Former Governors William
A. Stone, Edwin S. Stuart and John K.
Tener, Governor Martin G. Brum-
baugh, and the following representa-
tives of societies and other organiza-
tions with which the former Governor
was connected: Provost Edgar Fahs
Smith, of the University of Pennsyl-
vania; eX-Chief Justice D. Newlin
Fell, ex-Judge Mayer Sulzberger.
Judge Norris S. Barrett. Richard NJ.
Cadwalader, president of the Sons of
the Revolution; John Ashhurst. of the
Tower, senior vice president of the
Historical Society of Pennsylvania;
General Henry S. Huidekoper, former
president of The Netherlands Society;
William D. B. Ainey, chairman of the
State Public Service Commission; ex-
Attorney General Hampton L. Car
son, Judge ]. Whitaker Thompson,
of the United States District Court,
and William H. Sayen, president of
the Valley Forge Park Commission.
Samuel Whitaker Pennypacker was
born in PhoeniXville, Chester county,
Pa, April 9, 1S43. His father having
been appointed to a professorship in
the Philadelphia Medical College, the
family moved to that city and young
6IllS PACKER was sent TO Lne North
west Grammar School, from which he
was given a scholarship in Saunders
Institute. West Philadelphia. On the
death of his father, after several
years residence in Philadelphia, he
returned to Phoenixville, where he at
tended the Grovemont Seminary. He
prepared for Yale University, but
through circumstances beyond his
control was prevented from attending
that institution of learning
In 1852 he took an examination for
the teachers certificate in Mont
gomery county and that winter taught
school in Mont Glare. In 1863 he en-
listed and was sworn in as a United
States volunteer, joining Company F,
of Pottstown, Twenty-siXth Pennsyl-
vania Emergency Regiment, which
was the first force to meet the Rebels
at Gettysburg. On his return from
military service he began the study of
law, entering the Law Department of
the University of Pennsylvania and
at the same time registering as a law
student in the office of Peter Mccall.
In 1855 he was graduated with the
degree of Bachelor of Laws and after
admission TO the bar Immediately en-
gagged in the practice of the legal pro-
fession. In the same year he was
elected president of the Bancroft
Literary Union and in 1868 was chosen
president of the Law Academy. In
1886 he was appointed a member of
the Philadelphia Board of Education.
He was admitted to the bar of the
Supreme Court of the United States
in 1887 and in 1889 was appointed
judge of the Court of Common Pleas
No. 2, of Philadelphia, by the late
Governor Beaver In the same year
he was elected to the same position
for a term of ten years and in 1899
was reelected for a similar term.
From Judge to Governor
At the time of his nomination for
Governor of Pennsylvania by the Re-
publican State Convention Mr. Penny
packer was president judge of the
Court of Common Pleas No. 2, of
Philadelphia. He was elected Cover
nor by the largest vote ever given a
vania and served as the States chief
executive from 1903 to 1907. While
Governor he declined the nomination
to the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
which was rendered him.
Important Accomplishments
During the term of Governor Penny
packer good roads and State armories
Health and the Department of State
Police were created; Pittsburgh be-
came a great city and the beautiful
capitol at Harrisburg was erected.
Governor Pennypacker was a presi-
dent of the Historical Society of Penn
sylvania and of the Philobiblon Club;
Vice-proVost of the Law Academy at
Philadelphia; president of the Neither
lands Society of Philadelphia; vice
president of the Sons of the Revolu-
tion and of the Colonial Society; Past
Commander of Frederick Taylor Post
No. 10, Grand Army of the Republic:
member of the Society OF Coloniai
of 1912. He was also trustee of the
University of Pennsylvania. Franklin
and Marshall College, Muhlenberg
College, and the University of Penn
sylvania gave him the degree of Doc
tor of Laws. He was also a member
of the Valley Forge Park Commission
for a number of years.
Writer of Note
The former Governor was the
author of Pennsylvania Colonial
Cases. "Pennypacker's Supreme Court
Reports" "A Digest of the Common
Law Reports" The Settlement of
Germantown" Historical and Bio
logical Sketches" and aided in the
preparation of fortv-fve volumes of
Weekly Notes of Cases" and in all
has written some ninety books and
other publications. He was married
October 20, 1870. to Virginia Earl
daughter of Nathon p. Broomall, OF
Chester county There were four
children, three daughters and a son.
On May IA. 1912. the former Gov
ernor was appointed a member of the
State Railroad Commission and served
until the duties of the commission
were assumed by the Public Service
Commission to which he was appoint
ed by Governor Tener, July /, 1913,
for a term of eight years. On May 20,
1915. when Governor Brumbaugh an
nounced some changes on the commits
sion. he reappointed Commissioner
Pennypacker for a term of ten years