The autobiography of a Pennsylvanian

by Samuel Whitaker Pennypacker

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THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY
OF A PENNSYLVANIAN

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SAMUEL W. PENNYPACKER

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Samuel Whitaker Pennypacker

THE

AUTOBIOGRAPHY

OF

A PENNSYLVANIAN

By

SAMUEL WHITAKER PENNYPACKER

Governor of Pennsylvania

1903— 1907

PHILADELPHIA

THE JOHN C. WINSTON COMPANY

1918

Copyright, 1918, by

THE JOHN C. WINSTON CO.

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Copyright, 1917, 1918, by

Public Ledger Co.

CONTENTS

CHAPTER		PAGE
I.		Ancestry	11
II.		Childhood and Youth	31
III.		Que Faire	71
IV.		The War	80
V.		The Philadelphia Bar	106
VI.		Litterateur and Book-Hunter⁠	136
VII.		Reformer	171
VIII.		Judge	194
IX.		President Judge	228
X.		Governor, 1903	261
XI.		Governor, 1904	330
XII.		Governor, 1905	369
XIII.		Governor, 1906	405
XIV.		Comment and Review	439
XV.		Miniatures	468
XVI.		John B. Pennepacker	499
		Appendix	523
		Index	551

ILLUSTRATIONS

Samuel Whitaker Pennypacker	Frontispiece
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Isaac Anderson Pennypacker, M.D.	22
Brevet Major General Galusha Pennypacker, U. S. A.	88
Page of Quotations from the Governor's Record of His Reading	144
Page from the Governor's Record of His Reading, Showing Total Number of Pages Read in the Year 1914	146
Pennypackers Mills	262
Group of Governor Pennypacker's Pennsylvania Constabulary	380
Governor Pennypacker in the Executive Chamber, Harrisburg	436