Samuel Whitaker Pennypacker was an American judge and politician who served as the 23rd governor of Pennsylvania from 1903 to 1907. A judge assigned to Pennsylvania's Court of Common Pleas system prio
Samuel W. Pennypacker, c. 1905
From Autobiography of a Pennsylvanian
"Polly Got a Cracker" by Charles Nolan, Philadelphia North American, May 16, 1903
Uriah Galusha Pennypacker was a Union general during the American Civil War. He may be the youngest person to hold the rank of brigadier general in the US Army and remains the only general too young t
Samuel W. Pennypacker
…Pennypacker and Sarah Anderson (daughter of Isaac Anderson), and of Joseph and Grace Whitaker. He was the nephew of Matthias J. Pennypacker and a cousin of Galusha Pennypacker. He and his grandfather Whitaker witnessed Abraham Lincoln's speech outside Independence Hall in February 1861, standing 20 feet (6.1 m) away. He…
Lithograph of Galusha Pennypacker
General Galusha Pennypacker Memorial, Logan Square, Philadelphia, Charles Grafly and Albert Laessle, sculptors.
Pennypacker's tombstone in Philadelphia National Cemetery