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THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY o A PENNSYLVANIA
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By Samuel M Ponnypackor
Pennsylvania 'Most Zealous
and Energetic Govornor
CHAPTER I (Continued)
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Abbey. Edward Lane, to whom William 1'onn frequently refers in
ferms of friendship and to whom he intrusted some correspondence to
lebrouc'it across the Atlnntic, son of William Lane, of Bristol, Eng
(and, Hed on tl,c i'orkiomen, where he owned seven thousand five
hundred uikm of laml and where he founded Si. James's Episcopal
Church. He mariied Ann, daughter of Samuel Richardson, member
vf Assembly, piovincial councilor, Judge of the Philadelphia Court of
Common Pleas and the firs'. Alderman of that city. N'eU to Samuel
Crpcntcr he was the nchcsl man there and owned nil of the land
mi the north side of Market street from Second street to the river.
f George Keith said he was lascivious, hut Keith was u very bitter
partisan with long tongue. He had only one son, Joseph, who
also went to the Peikiomcn, wheic he bought one thousand acres
it the junction of that creek and the Schuylkill, in a region bearing
f the Indian name of Olethgo. There was another intermarriage;
Sarah Richardson, the granddaughter of Joseph, mairied Edward
Lane, who had fought under Hraddock, the grandson of Edward.
' The Friends' Meeting rocoids of Gwyncdd say that he had anothci
wife, a statement hinting at a long-forgotten scandal which canno:
row be probed Mary Lane was then- daughtci When Joseph
Richardson married Elizabeth, the duiigh'er of John licvan in hip'!,
there was an elaborate ne tlemenl m-orded in Philadelphia, in which
. lands and i'iUO in money were given them by their fathei. John
, Btvan lived on land in Glamorganshire, Wales, which he had inhcutcd
from Jcstyn of (Jwyrgan in the eleventh century. He displayed
coat of arms showing descent from the loyal families in England
ind France, the earliest assertion of such a light made in America.
Jn Philadelphia he was a member of Assembly and u Judge of the
rirf nf fommon Pleas. A rnnt-pmnnmrv li!nfrnnKv cnv I.a .......
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"Hen aescenaeu iiom me ancient, unions. ins wile, iiarbara
Aubrey, came from Reginald Aubrey, one of the Norman conquerors
I't cf Wales, and was nearly 1 elated to the William Aubrey who mar
' ried Letitia, daughter of William Pcnn. Elizabeth Iicvnn, therefore,
could prove her descent from Edward III, Jehu of Gaunt, Warwick
the King Maker, the Fair Maid of Kent, the loss of whose gaiter led
to the establishment of the ancient older, and many other his
torical character. The blood of Mary Lane was consequently Eng
lifh and Welsh. I have an indistinct recollection of her. The Lanes
erc a shoit-lived stock, but she i cached an age of over eighty
)ears. She long suffered from rheumatism, which twisted her hand-,
but she retained her skill in needlework and made very ptetty silk
pin-cushions. I have two of them and her long knit garter.
Governor PcnnypacUcr's Parents
My father, Isaac Anderson Pcnnypacker, was born July ID, 181'J,
t en the Pickering. Ap a youth he worked on the farm and in the
j' Kill. He went to a country school and learned arithmetic as far as
cube root, mensuration, algebra, trigonometry and surveying. Later
'; be was sent to Bolmar's Academy, in West Chester, and there
acquired some knowledge of French and Latin. Later he studied
medicine in the office of his uncle, Dr. Isaac Anderson, and at the
University of Pennsylvania, fiom which ho was graduated in 1833,
writing it thesis upon "Sleep." He was about six fee', in height,
fteighed 220 pounds, and was unusually impressive in both feature
and figure. A daughter of Doctor Dorr, rector of Christ Church, in
Philadelphia, told me that one of the Wethcrill women told her that
ence, on u visit to the Wetheiills, on the Peikiomcn, she saw him
tome down the stairs and inquired, "Who can that handsome young
doctor be?" When it came to me this -story had lasted sixty years.
Everybody liked him. The women named their boy babies after
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backer's mother, at thj southeast corner of Front and Pine
streets, Philadelphia.
Mont Clare, home of Governor Ponnj packer's grandparents, opposite Phoeniwille, P.i., when be spent a great part of Ills young life.
him. Thi:. was due to a kindl.v disposition which led him to take an
interest 111 all around him and to endeavor to aid them. Thomas
Andeisan, United States Con-nil 10 Panama, the Sandwich Islands
and Melbourne, Aurtralia, told me that once, when he was it littlo
boy plajing along Nutt's road, at the Coiner Stoics, my father
diove by in u buggy. Seated beside him was u dark-browed, swaithy
man who had come from Valley Foigc. My father stopped and
called: "Come over here, Thomas'." The boy hung his head, but
went. "I want to introduce you to Daniel Webster." Adamson said
the incident made an impression which alTectcd his whole career.
My father had a gift of speech, and made many public addresses
upon education, tempciauce, medicine and politics. He was am
bitious. He was a capable physician, quick to see and decisive in
action. A man met with what threatened to be u fatal accident.
My father bought a big knife in a nearby store and cut the man's
leg olT while my mother steadied the limb. A boy, fishing, caught
the hook in his nose and a young physician worked over him in vain.
My father chanced to come along, and, with u sudden twist, jcikel
the hook nut while the boy screamed. He bled and pulled teeth and
prescribed calomel, jalap and flowers of sulphur. In my younger
days I have seen setons, moxas, cups and leeches. He wns fond of
having his hair combed and his skin rubbed. He smoked cigars to
excess. On the ninth of May, 1839, he married Anna Maria Whita
ker, born March 'J3, 181fi. She had black eyes and black hair, and
as she grew older became stout. Hers was a resolute character.
Her life was one of devotion to her children. Left with four of them
under thiiteen years of age, she took care of them and refused to
marry again. To fulfill the duties of life n3 they came to her was
her idea of what was required of her, and she never flinched and
never lamented. What she wns unable to buy she cheerfully did
without, and what she could not secuie did not distuib her. Her
piedcminant tiait was a certain setness. There were people she
disliked, and she never relented. Thcie were people of whom Mm
was fond, and no poverty, failure or misfoitune could weaken her
affection for them. She was not aggressive, but was immovable.
She was timid at a distance, but when an emergency arose was calm
and efficient. She never fainted or grew hysterical or became
"rattled," but simply stayed there and did what could bo done. I
have seen her tried in sudden accident, in cases of extreme illnesa,
on an occasion when the upsetting of a fluid lamp set firo to the
room, and in all of these instances alike the same quiet strength of
character was manifested. Her Irish and negro maids, from tht
point of view of the household training to which she had been accus
tomed, were n sorry lot of incapablcs, but when they were ill she
nurbtd them, mended their clothing and in person attended to their
wants.
Isaac Anderson Pcnnypacker
In her childhood she lived with her grandmother at tho
southeast corner of Front and Pine streets, in Philadelphia, going
to school on Pine street, and later was a pupil jn tho Kimberton
School, in Chester County, wheie she learned the rrim chirography
of that Quaker establishment. Up to the end of her long life sho
could read a book and enjoy it all, meet a guest and chat with her
cheerily, and in her eighty-fourth year she made for mo an elaborate
piece of needlework, so elaborate that a maid of eighteen wquUI havo
abandoned tho task. At iio same ago she would sit for hours and
comb my hair while I read. Her marriage breakfast was cooked
by Julia Roberts, a mulatto woman who was raised as a slave in
tho family of my gi cat-great-grandfather, Sam'ucl Lane, and who
finally died after I reached manhood, at the age of 104 years. PatricK
Andeison owned a slave, and the Richardsons owned slaves. Onco
I had the bill of sale of a slave in Richmond by a master who could
not write, nnd I was in the habit of showing it as an illustration of
tho vileness of tho system until I also became the possessor of a like
paper executed by ono of my own people, along the Schuylkill, in
.Inch u blink gill, I'nilliuii.t, in tlie cully dti was sold by her niis
tiesa and to! the mistress umld not wnte. Throwing stones at the
wiekednc. s of other people oltin lead to complications. Her father,
Joseph Whitaker, born in 1 7S!, in a nnc-atory log house, in a poor,
stony legion near Hopewell Furnace, ..o near the lino between Berks
and Chester Counties that the family could not be quite sure in
which county they lived, was five feet eight inches in height, full
blooded, with thick cuily hair, which he never lost, and thin chin
whiskcis but no beard. lie was MHiietimoi described as a "little,
big man" and measured foity-four inches mound the chest without
clothing. t
His will power mu mimciu-e and there were few men who
could withstand him. He i tiled over his household and pretty
much everybody else who came within his influence. If he did not
want the women to plant hollvjiocl.s in the garden, ho pulled them
up and threw them ovrr the fence. :n his younger days he kicked
a clerk out of the office an 1 down tho i.tairs, and when .seventy-five
years of ago he applied u whip to some young fellows fiom the
canal who exposed thi'inclvea naked before tvomen, and he broke
his cane over the head of a young man who trampled his wheat
and was impel tiucnt about it. He was careful, but provided neces
sary things bountifully. He was pioud and ruggedly honest.
Through the vicissitudes of a long caiccr in the iron business no
contract of his was ever broken and no note ever went to protest.
He loved to play checkers, the principles of which he never under
stood, but his opponent either had to stay up all night or lose a
game. He never learned to swim. Having only such school training
as came fiom a few nights spent at a night school, he could measure
the hay in a bnm and keep a set of books. Beginning life in extreme
poverty, us a chaicoal burner and woodchoppcr about an iton fur
nace and as a maker of nails by hand in a small shop at the corner
of Fourth street ami Old Yoil. load in Philadelphia, he reached
the position of one of the principal iron proprietors of Pennsyl
vania, Maryland and Viiginin, took care of a family of eleven chil
dren and, dying in 1S70, left an estate of $520,000. Generous to
the extent of his pciception of the needs of those dependent on him,
he bought each of his children a ticket to hear Jenny Lind sing, but
he never overcame the impressions made in his early life and always
had a dread lest some of his children or grandchildren might drop
back into tho situation from which he had emerged. Onco when
I, as a child, was at his house in Mont Clare, opposite Phoenixville,
he called me to him as he lay on a sofa and said: "Sam, there was
once a little boy alone at a hotel, and when he went to the dinner
taLlc he was timid nnd could get nothing to cat. Presently he turned
to the man next to him and said: 'Please, sir, won't you give mo a
little salt?'
"The man in surprise inquired: 'What do you want with
salt?' 'I thought, sir, if I had some salt maybe somebody would give
me an egg to put it on.'" With a quizzical expression he continued:
"Now I see that you have no watch fob in your jacket. When you
go home tell your mother to make a fob in your jacket, and maybe
some time or other homebody may give you a watch." Even in
childhood I always wanted to think out the problems for myself,
nnd this suggestion impicsscd me as pure foolishness, and I did not
mention the matter to my mother. Tho leasoning was correct
enough, but, unfortunately, as so often happens in more serious
affairs, some of the facts were unascertained. However, the watch
came nnd later he advanced the moneys which enabled me to read
law. He wore a woolen shawl. Probably he would have lived to tho
age of his brother, James, which was ninety-four, but lnte in life
he fell from the third story of a house down an unfinished stairwny;
nnd though he recovered, the accident no doubt shortened his life.
In his eighty-second year one day he was in Philadelphia attending
to business. He came home and in the evening, as was his wont,
lay down on a sofa to read a newspaper. The paper slipped from
his hand. His daughter, who was in the room, went over to him
nnd found him dead.
His father, Joseph Whitaker, named for his grandfather, Joseph
Musgravc, of tho Scottish clan referred to in "Son Lochlnbr,"iSon
of James Whitaker, born in Colne, in Lancashire, grandson of John,
alEO of Colne, was born in Leeds, England, where his father -
a manufacturer of cloth. The Whiskers of Lancaahire are an Anglo
Saxon family known at High Whitaker and the Holme since the
eleventh century and distinguished in literature and in the. JChuVcb.
Several of them in remote times were inmates of Klrkstall Abbey,
still well preserved. Among them were William Whitaker, yho
headed the Reformation in England; Alexander Whitaker, the rector
at Jamestown, who married Pocahontas to Rolfe; John Whitaker,,
the historian of Manchester, and Thomas Dunham Whitaker, who
wrote the history of Whnlley.
Revolutionary History
Attention is called to Joseph Whitaker the elder because, while
his career was in every sense a failure, he transmitted 'certain
dominunt traits of character mental and physical which haye left
their impress upon all of his many descendants. His father intended
that he should be trained for the mini e try of the Church of England.
His inclinations turned toward another line of work. The father
was determined and the son was resolute. The result was that
ho left his home and enlisted in Colonel Harcourt'a cavalry. The
regiment was sent to America to suppress the rebellious colonists
who were fighting in the army of Washington. He participated in
u number of engagement and was one of the squad which captured
General Charles Lee in New Jersey in 1776. The tradition is that
he became convinced of the merit of the American cause, in which
tradition I have little faith, but at all events he became weary of
the service. While the army was on its way from the Head of Elk
to Philadelphia in the campaign of 1777, he mounted his horse and
rode away. There was a pursuit and shots were fired, but he
escaped unhurt and thereafter made his home in a hilly region in
the northern part of Chester County. He had a small farm with
a log house upon it, but tho ground was poor and stony and the
crops wrested from an unwilling soil were scant. He cut wood for
the neighboring furnaces, but he had not been trained to this kind
of labor nnd almost any other woodchopper could excel him. He
married Sarah Updcgrovc and had a family of thirteen children.
It was a life of hardship in which there was a continual struggle
to get enough to cat. He did not spare the rod. Ho was earnest
in prayer nnd had a gift in that direction. Despite his poverty and
his failures, he wns intensely proud and was able to asseTt and
even to maintain a certain sense of superiority in the rural neigh
borhood in which he lived. It is manifest that he had a power of
will which was not to be overridden by conventions or to be sup
pressed by adverse circumstances. He was about five feet eight
inches in height, his hair inclined to curl, he had a red birthmark
upon one cheek and a readiness of speech. Strange as it seems, his
barren and unfruitful life was the ground from which were raised
the fortunes of a family. His wife, Sarah, a worthy woman with
a tender heart, was the daughter of Jacob, granddaugher of Isaac
and great-granddaughter of Abraham Op den Graeflf, who came
to Gcrmantown in 1083. He signed the protest against slavery
in 1688 and is immortalized by Whitticr in his poem, "The JPeml
sylvnnia Pilgrim." He was Burgess of Gcrmantown and a member
of the Pennsylvania Assembly. His grandfather, Herman Op den
GraelT, was a delegate to the Mcnnonitc convention which met in
Dordrecht in 1G;I2 and there signed the confession of faith which
has often been picsentcd both in Europe and America. Abraham
later moved to the Skippack. His son, Isaac, was employed by tho
Potts families about their iron works at Pine Forge and Colebrook
da"5 and his grandson, Jacob, crossed the Schuylkill River to Chester
County, where Samuel Nutt was making iron at Coventry in part
nership with William Branson and Mordccai Lincoln, the great-greatgrandfather
of the President. Jacob Updegrove married Sarah,
the daughter of Richard Butler. Ho and Butler were both wood
choppers and dny laboiers around these furnaces and forges, where
the industry which has crcnted the prosperity of Pennsylvania
began. There is a fatality in the preservation of pedigrees na'in
other things. For thirty years I can give the daily details of the
inconspicuous and uneventful life of Richard Butler what he did,
what he ate and drank, what he woie. In this ntmospherc, with
such antecedents, my great-grandfather, Joseph Whitaker, raised
his family. Each of his sons heard of the making of iron from his
childhood, and most of them as they grew older became ironmasters
and made fortunes. From him came these physical tendencies: a
weakness of the stomach, often running into dyspepsia; a certain
rattle of the nerves and a vital tenacity which overcomes all attacks
of disease and leads to length of life, ending in death from failure
of the heart. Along with these tendencies come pride, firmness and
a disposition to bo masterful. It is a remarkable fact, observable
down to the fifth generation, that individual descendants, who in
youth show the traits of other forefathers, as they grow older dis
play the mental and physical characteristics of Joseph Whitaker.
He wears out the stocks of lesser vital strength. While it is impos
sible to speak with confidence upon a subject so involved as that of
inheritance, it is, nevertheless, my thought that while the convolu
tions of the brain which enabled me to grapple with a difficult prob
lem of law while on the bench came by way of Matthias Pennypacker,
the tempernment which led me as Governor to undertake alone the
correction of sensational journalism, knowing its power to harm,
was derived from that other ancestor who did not fear to offend
both father and king.
My mother, therefore, with the exception of the Highland Celtic
blood which came from the clan of Musgrave and the Infusion of
Dutch derived from the family of Op den Graeff, was of pure Saxon
lineage. In the direct paternal line my forefathers, though perhaps
inclined to be a little tame from habit and religious repression, obsti
nate rather than aggressive, were sensible, sober, honest and cleanly.
For six generations, at least, I am satisfied no one of them had ever
been inside of a bawdy house or retained a cent which did not belong
to him.
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,By REX BEACH
Author of "Th. Hpolltn." "Tho llnrrlff." "Hrt of the Sumat."
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A novel of love, hidden treasure and rebellion in beautiful, mys
terious Cuba during the exciting days of the revolt against Spain.
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of O'Reilly.
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"I've speeded tliem The elder man Uttod his neaa. lauy
Cuban will know who Miss Evana la, and
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' ("yREILLY arose eaily tlio next morning mnl.icc(i -r hardly expected" do not eem to have a lilsb regard for
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uuiiicu uiwn 10 ma oiutu m mo Enrlqucz bioke In. oucn cniiiuniaoiiu
Junta, hoping that Iio could convlnco Such ardor! She whirls a person off Ills
'r. Enrlquez of the folly of nllowlng feet."
Norlne Evans to have her way. By tho
1ht of day Miss Evans's project seemed
O'Reilly Protests
our chivalry, Blr."
"There!" Noilne vvsh triumphant.
"There is bound to bo some danger, of
course." JKnrlaues continued, "for tho
coast Is well patrolled, hut once the ex-
about woman's requirements, sho led him
uptown. And sho kept him at her aid
ull that morning while nho mado her
purchases; then when elio had loaded hltn
down with parcels sho invited him to
tako her to lunch. Tho girl was so
keenly allvo and so delighted with the
too, failed to find steady employment,
though lie managed, by tho sale of an
occasional column, to keep them both
from actual suffering.
Ills tough, meanwhile, grew worso day
by day, for the spring was Into and raw.
As a result his spirits rose, and ho be-
the first time, emitted a low
surprise.
"dlory be! That goadess!" ho cried.
"And I called her a 'poor old soul'!"
whistle of now, one Major Ramos, a square-Jawed,'
forceful Cut
be In command of the expedition.
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or vou. ana vou must do axactiv nn lin ',i
When Norlne took his bony, bloodless directs. Ask'no questions, for ha: won't "''
hand In lier warm grasp and flashed him answer them. Do .yoU think 1vx can $ '4
her fiank. friendly smile, ho capitulated follow instructions?" i ')j ,
if u,mi that the Junta lacks money .,,, ,. ,. ,,.,, mi Cvans will be
v lnore harebrained thpn ever, and ho bus. (or another expedition, so I've made up nm0ns frends. She will be as safo in
our camps as If she were in her own
Pected that Enriques hod acquiesced1 In the deficit. We'll be oft in a week."
too: when O'Reilly set out for his lodg
ings after escorting her home he walked
in order to savo carfare. Clams, con
mmm, chicken Kiilnrt. French na.ilrv
Don't he hateful and argumentative ftnd other extravaganccs had reduced his
capital to zero. '
Waiting
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HJ htm und was oven their closetod craty, both of you," he declared. Irritably, now you're going to help mo ouy ,ny of waU,nf that foilowed
wepan no naa come to see. jonn- "Cuba u no piace lor u .... . -" ;"- . ,. fl, Enriouel were tryinr. even to one of O'Reillys
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K It only becauso of a natural inability to
fue anything to a pretty woman that
K'as typically Cuban. Hut his respect
or MUs Evans's energy and. inltiatlvu
fLwpjntd when, on arriving at EG New
i street, lie discovered that sho l'ud fore-
"Really? Then you're actua-.y go- home."
ing?"
"Of course."
"It was like a gift from heaven." En
rique cried., "Our last embarrassment Is
removed, and" r t
iim, Tniinnin Interrupted him. "'ioure
prospect of advenluro that Johnnlo could camo tho best of all possible good eonv
not long remain displeased with her. panlonB. Johnnie, who was becoming
She had an Irreslstiblo way about her, constantly moro fond of him, felt his
and he soon found himself sharing her anxloty increase in proportion to this strove to volco hlH pleasure at tho meet-, j-orlna ,, hlm ..,i tntrlv hia-iu
good spirits. She had a healthy appetlto, improvement in mood; it seemed to him Ing; but ho lost the thread of his thought curj05jty ttt this moment," ' "tf
mat urancn was on uio very vciko ut "
instantly. In hyperbolical terms he ..CcrU,nly nol. T .ha'n't evetf try,'
Miss Evans Victorious
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ion." Miss Eya'ns exclaimed. "Come!
Jlako up your mind to enduro roe. And
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collapse.
Heady at Last
At last there camera message which
ftrougut them great Joy. Enriques di
rected them to be In icadlncss to leave
Jersey City at -7 o'clock tho following
morning. Neither man slept much that
night '
As they waited In the huge, barnlike
and floundered so hopelessly among his
words that Norlno said, laughingly:
"Now, Mr. Branch, bold buccaneers
don't make pretty speeches. Hitch un
your belt and say, 'Hello. N'orinot' I'll
cull you Leslie."
"Don't call me 'Leslie.' " he beeged.
"Call me often."
Then he beamed upon the others, as lrv w4 jWmt '
this medieval pun were both tartlln,, v
Secrecy
"Remember, Ramos, not a wortV" ;,"''
"I promlsa.'iemUed the pajqr.i t;
UOOu-uy una nova iuck, 'vh
shook.hands all around, then'ifc
und kissed Miss Byane'e (imreai;;.'
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