Rash's Surname Index
Notes for Joseph Eldridge PENNOCK
Joseph Eldredge Pennock, building contractor, was born at Collegeville, PA, December 25, 1853. He attended the Friends' Select School in Philadelphia and the Westtown (PA) boarding school. He then spent two years learning the carpenter's trade in Philadelphia and in 1876 started in business for himself as a builder. He continued in that business until he retired in 1931 at the age of seventy-eight. During the greater part of his career his firm was known as J. E. & A. L. Pennock, the other partner being his brother. The firm had offices in Philadelphia and New York City and it constructed many of the largest buildings in eastern United States during its period of operation. Among these were the St. James building and the origional Knickerbocker hotel in New York City; the riding academy at West Point; the Penn Mutual Life Insurance Co. building, Philadelphia; the Delaware Co. courthouse at Media, Pa.; the Sacred Heart Cathederal in Richmond, Va.; hospitals in Allegheny, Pa., Phila., and Camden, N.J. and the U.S. Naval hospital, Norfolk, Va. He was a pioneer in the building industry, particularly in the use of concrete as a foundation, in setting concrete in wintertime by using protected heat, in setting concrete underwater and in using an elevator tower alongside a building under construction to carry up materials. His buildings were always well made and have stood well the test of time. Politically he was a Republican. He was a man of many talents, an athlete, interested in good literature, raised dahlias, collected etchings, and took up photography at seventy-two. He was married at Haddonfield, NJ, January 15, 1880, to Mary Haines, daughter of John Haines Lippincott, a farmer of Woodstown, NJ, and had two daughters: Pauline Scull Pennock, who married William Caspar Horn, Jr., and Margaret Liddon Pennock. He died in Philadelphia, PA, June 6, 1941.
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