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Pendleton, John O

congressman.

He is a resident of Wheeling, W. Va.; and was elected to the house of representatives of the fifty-first congress in 1888, and was unseated in 1890. He was elected to the fifty-second and fifty-third congresses as a democrat.

Penewell, Mary Amelia

educator, poet, was born March 7, 1848, near Ellicottville, N. Y. She is the author of a large number of poems, and one published work.

Penhallow, Samuel

lawyer, jurist, author, was born July 2, 1665, in England. He was a citizen of Portsmouth, N. H., and chief justice of New Hampshire in 1717-26. He published in 1726 a realistic and valuable History of the Wars of New England with the Eastern Indians. He died Dec. 2, 1726, in Portsmouth, N. H.

Penick, Charles Clifton

bishop, author, was born Dec. 9, 1843, in Charlotte county, Va. He is the third protestant episcopal bishop of the West African mission. He was consecrated in 1877, resigned in 1883, and is now (1898) a general agent at Baltimore of the commission on work among the colored people. He is the author of More than a Prophet, or Chapters on St. John the Evangelist.

Penick, Henry E

journalist, was born in 1874, in Brunswick, Mo. He is the editor and owner of The Record of Cabool, Mo.; and has contributed extensively to current literature.

Penington, Edward

author, was born Sept. 3, 1667, in England. He became in 1700 surveyor-general of Pennsylvania. He published The Discoverer Discovered; Rabshakeh Rebuked; and Some Brief Observations upon George Keith's Earnest Expostulation. He died Nov. 11, 1711, in Philadelphia, Pa.

Penington, Henry

lawyer, author, was born Sept. 19, 1807, in Philadelphia.

He edited and published, with numerous additions, Henry James Holthouse's New Law Dictionary. He died Nov. 11, 1858, in Philadelphia, Pa.

Penington, John

physician, author, was born Sept. 29, 1768, in Philadelphia. He was a member of the American Philosophical society; and the author of Chemical and Economical Essays to Illustrate the Connection between Chemistry and the Arts; and Inaugural Dissertation on the Phenomena, Causes, and Effects of Fermentation. He died Sept. 20, 1793, in Philadelphia.

Penington, John

author, was born Aug. 1, 1799, in Mulberry Hill, N. J. For many years he was the most noted importer of foreign books in Philadelphia. In addition to critical articles, he published An Examination of Beauchamp Plantagenet's Description of the Province of New Albion; Scraps, Osteologic and Archæological; and he edited Description of New York, by Daniel Danton, London, 1670: Reprinted by the Historical Society of Pennsylvania. He died March 18, 1867, in Philadelphia.

Penington, John B

lawyer, state legislator, congressman, was born Dec. 20, 1825, near New Castle, Del. He was a member of the state house of representatives in 1857. He was appointed United States attorney for the district of Delaware in 1868; and attorney-general of the state in 1874. He was elected to the fiftieth congress, and was re-elected to the fifty-first congress as a democrat.

Penn, Alexander G

congressman, was born in Virginia. He settled in Louisiana; and was elected a representative in congress from that state from 1851 to 1853.

Penn, John

governor, was born July 1.4, 1729, in London. He was governor of Pennsylvania from 1763 to 1771, and from 1773 to 1775. He died Feb. 9, 1795, in Bucks county, Pa.