Rash's Surname Index
Notes for Samuel Whitaker PENNYPACKER
Born in Phoenixville, Chester County, Pa., attended the Grovemont Seminary.
In 1863 he enlisted and was sworn in as a US volunteer, joining Company F, of Pottstown, Twenty-sixth Pa Emergency Regiment, which was the first force to meet the rebels at Gettysburg.
He was the author of "Pa Colonial Cases," "Pennypackers Supreme Court reports," "A Digest of the Common Law Reports," and the 'Settlement of Germantown," and over fifty books and papers. His library of early Pa. publications contains over 8,000 books and manuscripts.
Mr. Pennypacker was born April 9, 1843; read Law with the Hon. Peter McCall, in Philadelphia; was graduated Bachelor of Laws at the University of Pennsylvania; was President of the Philadelphia Law Academy in 1868; is the editor of Pennypacker's Supreme Court Reports, one of the editors of the Weekly Notes of Cases, the leading law journal in Pennsylvania, and is the author of the "Annals of Phoenixville," "historical and biographical sketches," and various orations and addresses and historical papers, some of which have been translated into Dutch and German, and reproduced in Europe. He is Vice-President of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, and is a member of the Board of Public Education of Philadelphia.
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