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v-' V V-ffVv'f - l Jf1 wp EVENING- LEDGER-PHILADELPHIA, MONDAY. NOVEMBER 19, , 1917 Pictorial Section .. THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY o A PENNSYLVANIA ?v By Samuel M Ponnypackor Pennsylvania 'Most Zealous and Energetic Govornor CHAPTER I (Continued) y GitAM-MivJinuu, uircugu ner mother, Mary Lane, had h ct ill i l. ti iiint npflirrrrn. TVin nnum r T ... ,. . ... - pan. " " i o-- -w .......i; .., i-iuiiv; uggurs in uattic 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 ....... , VW.- - t " -" ............ ...vf,...!'..,. LUJ.J ,. ....a "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 w r 4 V, 'A' $ 3 1 f f?Sy1uiEjK' WB&XKi&MffiJni&tl"ir . Uts. u. hi ! I s5 sF3tKaifi rilt " -'-zX. . I J )Si BvBifi1Si:'; - t Tfcri rTRSK. HLSiB i t"" M K y 3 r hvi iLmi The home of Anna Maria Whitaker, Governor Penny 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. (CONTINUED TOMOItnOW) "?.' ,w. i ., ! "Sin i 1 m 4, T j -I .& ftRAINBOW'S END - ,By REX BEACH Author of "Th. Hpolltn." "Tho llnrrlff." "Hrt of the Sumat." ejS A novel of love, hidden treasure and rebellion in beautiful, mys terious Cuba during the exciting days of the revolt against Spain. I'X Fr CODVrlffhr lfli"7. Uarnp A Tim-. Ij - VHAPTER XV (Continued) slBht up." of O'Reilly. ... . n.. "I've speeded tliem The elder man Uttod his neaa. lauy Cuban will know who Miss Evana la, and .'. ..... ...,.. i ,- UUKf i- wlint Hlin hns dona for our CAU80. OU ' ("yREILLY arose eaily tlio next morning mnl.icc(i -r hardly expected" do not eem to have a lilsb regard for ftnrl I. ....-I-.. . . .. -m - .1... .. . -.. i 1 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. .. l. Jt ... L J ?.i ...... .. .., .. ... Leslie Branch Delighted MVV.a .t..,!.... .. .I I... f.J -.. ...v uuiim .'.I.. .....in. r.nniiii-x ..va .vt-.r nlained. "Malar Ilamm will nk Vharvo t.WJ'J . .. .. .V 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 - - . ..... 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 mvn ! i . v.- l VI UHH p wum tcuui H 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 n... a- ....-.- .. .,.. a lMn "Imnn. or III uemn 10 ininit you ic .. -..-, ion." Miss Eya'ns exclaimed. "Come! Jlako up your mind to enduro roe. And W,TTSS 7AX: ''S imV,.nd a nodf Enrique, t 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;;.' pray'thal you eeeaiejaaipaetj i atation.r Enrique appeared with Norjae and original.;" It was pUln ,tlat.Jh -,,.. J . :. 1.1... .mi.. l.i. .!J7 1.-1... A ---- - - - i.yi s , MHWipB) BWWjCMW ,l wj.THpijr r . 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