Ml lIVPACKEH Some Interesting Facts in the Life of the Judge. IS A VERY MODEST GENTLEMAN He Is a Grand Army Man and a Sur vivor of Gettysburg—His Famous Defense of Pennsylvania and Penn sylvanians That Awoke Criticism. (From Our Own Correspondent.) Philadelphia, July 15. —The candi dacy of Judge Samuel W. Pennypack er for governor is bringing to the sur face a vast number of clever, inter esting and characteristic stories of his life. Men who have known him for years never fancied that there was bound up in his personality so much, that, in any other man with less mod esty, would have kept his name con tinually before the public. Judge Pennypacker is not only a learned and upright judge, but he is an antiquarian, a member of a num ber of learned societies, the author of a number of legal works, a historian of the Pennsylvania Germans, a mem her of the Grand Army of the Republic and a member of at least half a dozen of the great patriotic and hereditary societies of the United States. Above all, he is a companionable, modest man, who has never presumed upon his distinction in ijublic or in private life. A capital and characteristic story of his good nature was published some time ago, as follows: Judge Pennypacker's summer home is out In Montgomery county, on the banks of the Perkiomen. It was owned by his ancestors and was once the headquarters of General Washington. The region around the Perkiomen is very popular with fashionable Phila delphia summer boarders. On his way to and from his farm these summer days no one would suspect that the un obtrusive gentleman, deeply engaged iu the perusal of a book or magazine in the car seat was the distinguished Judge Pennypacker, of Philadelphia. Going out home the other night, seat ed directly behind Judge Pennypacker, was a fashionably dressed woman from the city, who carried a small hand satchel, and had beside her in the seat a very large dress suit case. As the train approached College ville, the woman began to get ready to leave the car. As the train slowed up she reached over the back of the seat, tapped Judge Pennypacker light ly on the shoulder, and said: "1 wish you would carry my dress suit case out for me, please." The judge, who was busy reading a magazine, looked up, and thinking some mistake had been made, re sumed his book. The woman persist ed. and again tapping him on the shoulder, said sharply, with something like command In her tone: "I wish you would carry this dresg suit case for me to the platform." Laying down his book, the judge arose, seized the grip, carried it out, sat it down on the platform and was about to re-enter the car, when the woman offered him a piece of silver for his trouble. The judge raised his hat and laughingly said: "No I thank you; It was not a trouble, but a pleasure." As the train pulled away and the woman was told who her distinguished burden bearer was she became so flustered that she walked all the way to the hotel instead of going in the bus. Judge Pennypacker's full name is Samuel Whltaker Pennypacker. On his father's side he is a descendant of Hendrick Pannebecker, who was sur veyor for the Penns, and who came to tins country the latter part of the seventeenth century. On the same side he is descended ffom Samuel Richardson, an early settler in Phila delphia, a provincial counsellor, a member of the assembly, and a judge of the court of common pleas, quarter sessions of the peace and orphans' court, his commission for the latter office dating from December 11, 1688. P,y the marriage of Samuel Richard son's son, Joseph, to Elizabeth, daugh ter of John Bevan. who came to this country in ICB3 with a party of Cymric Quakers and settled in Merion, the line is preserved intact. The Pennypack ers and their kin on collateral lines have been residents of Eastern Penn sylvania for over 200 years. Samuel AVhitaker Pennypacker was born In Phoenixville, Pa., April 9, 1S 53. He is a son of Dr. Isaac Ander son Pennypacker, who was graduated in medicine from the University of Pennsylvania in 1835, and was profes sor of the theory and practice of medi cine in the Philadelphia Medical Col lege from 1854 until his death is Feb ruary. 1856. Judge Pennypacker received his early education in Saunders Institute in West Philadelphia, a famous old In stitution in its day, and at the Grove mont Seminary at Proenixville, Pa. He began .the study of law in the of fice of Hon. Peter McCall, of Philadel phia, who was his office preceptor; al though at the same time, in 1864, he entered the law school of the Univer sity of Pennsylvania, from which he was graduated in July, 1866, with the degree of bachelor of laws. It was the year before he entered the university that there occurred one of the thrilling episodes in his history. In 1863 Lee's army was sweeping up from Virginia and Maryland to over whelm Pennsylvania. Young Penny packer answered the call to arms and enlisted in the Twenty-sixth Pennsyl vania Emergency Regiment. His first i experience with war was when he met the enemy on the bloody field at Get tysburg. Judge Pennypacker has al ways been closely and earnestly lde» lified with the Grand Army of th« Ri puhllc, and In 1869 was elected com mander of Frederick Taylor Post,- No. 19, of Philadelphia. His position as a member of the bar was recognized even at that early age and in 1869, when only 25 years of age he was elected president of the Law Academy of Philadelphia. In the ensuing twenty years, Judge Pennypacker as a member of the Philadelphia bar, advanced steadily in his profession, gradually fitting himself by experience and contact with the world for the high place that was wait ing for him. He was admitted to the bar of the Supreme Court of the United States in 1887, and during the same year received from Franklin and Mar shall College the honorary degree of Doctor of l^aws. In 1887 Judge James T. Mitchell, of the Court of Common Pleas of Phila delphia county, was elected to the su preme court of Pennsylvania. The fill ing of this important place fefi to the lot of Governor Beaver, who had been greatly impressed by the eloquence and legal acumen of Lawyer S. W. Penny packer, who had appeared before him to plead the merits of a certain meas ure that had just passed the legisla ture. He was accordingly appointed judge in place of Justice Mitchell. He was elected in 1889 to the same position for a term of ten years, and succeeded Judge John I. Clark Hare, who had resigned as president judge. When the campaign of 1899 opened the merits, fairness and ability of Judge Pennypacker were so generally recog nized by both political parties that in August of that year he received the unanimous nomination of Democrats and Republicans and was re-elected iu November for another term of ten years. At present he is president, judge of the Court of Common Pleas Number Among Judge Pennypacker's many important decisions, affirmed by the supreme court of the United States, are the cases of Mullen vs. Doyle in re Melon street, a case of great import ance, which before being finally de cided had been heard by seventeen judges. Another was the Arch Street Museum case, the Carter will case, the Irwin will case. Barr vs. the city, in volving the right of the city to borrow $11,000,000, and Commonwealth vs. Davis, the defendant in which was the first person convicted of murder in tne first degree in the City Hall, Philadel phia. In ISB6 upon the death of Hon. John Welsh, former minister to England, Judge Pennypacker was elected h trus tee of the University of Pennsylvania and since then has been one of its most enthusiastic friends. In the course of his historical researches Judge Pennypacker became possessed of facts which he embodied in a learned and convincing brief, whicn was accepted by the trustees, showing that me university's origin should date from 1740 instead of from 1749. Reference has already been made to the societies, learned and otherw : se, of which Judge Pennypacker is a member Among the more prominent ones are the American Philosophical Society, tc which he was elected May 21, 18SC; the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, which with the Pennsylvania German Society he has presided over as active president. He is a member of all the leading patriotic societies, a founder of the Pennsylvania Society of the Revo lution, of the Netherlands Society of Pennsylvania, and of the Colonial So ciety of Pennsylvania. As an author of standard legal works Judge Pennypacker is widely known. He has published jointly with E. G. Piatt, Esq., and S. S. Hollingsworth, Esq., a digest of English Common Law Reports that was begun by Judge Sharswood; a volume of Pennsylvania Colonial cases, four volumes of Su preme Court Records, known as Penny packer's Reports, and has aided iu the preparation of forty-four volumes of the Weekly Notes of Cases, having charge of the cases from the Courts of Common Pleas Nos. 2 and 3, Phila delphia. As a historian Judge Pennypacker has shown with equal brilliancy. He Is a clear, concise and entertaining writer. Many of his monographs and historical papers and addresses have been translated abroad into German and Dutch. His most imposing work, possibly, is one recently issued and en titled the "Settlement of German tcwn." Judge Pennypacker spent years in gathering material for this work. He went personally over the ground with the result that it has found high favor for its comprehensive, thorough and accurate statements and descrip tion. Prince Bismark personally thank ed Judge Pennypacker for his address in the Academy of Music, Philadelphia, in 1883 on the Bi-Centenial celebration of the beginning of German emigration to America. Judge Penny packer married on Oc tober 20, 1870. Virginia Earl, daughter of Nathan D. Broomall. His city resi dence is on North Sixteenth street, Philadelphia, and his summer residence at Schwenksville, Montgomery county, Pa. A great deal has been said and writ ten by the opponents of Judge Penny packer about bis so-called "Eulogy of Quay," and attempts have been made to belittle his candidacy on this ground. The fact is that the paper referred to was one of the ablest, most eloquent, and most convincing arguments tor the dignity and supremacy of Pennsylva nia in the galaxy of states that was ever written. The title of the paper was "Pennsylvania and Massachu setts," and its object was to demon strate the supremacy of Pennsylvania, and the fact that in every great his torical crisis Pennsylvania had taken the lead over many of her sister states, and particularly Massachusetts. John D. Reeser's Big Store BIG REDUCTION SALES! Reduction Sales now take place as the summer is leaving us. We take advantage of it and reduce our great stock of goods. All summer dress goods reduced. Those selling at 20c now yard; now 12 1-2 cts; 12 i-2cts now 10c; 7c now £c. The finest you would want to louk at. Take advantage of it now. It you do not want to make them up this year, you can save money by having them made up next year for they are very pretty patterns. fiinglianis fio )icr yard. 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