Biography

11/20/1804 - 01/04/1888

PENNYPACKER, Elijah Funk, a Representative from Chester County; born, November 20, 1804 in Schuylkill Township, Chester County, Pa.; teacher; surveyor and conveyancer; surveyor, Pennsylvania Surveyor General’s office; elected as an Anti-Mason to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for the 1831-1832 and 1832-1833 terms; reelected to the House for the 1834-1835 and 1835-1836 terms; clerk, board of commissioners, Pennsylvania Canal Commission (1836-1837); board member, Pennsylvania Canal Commission (1838); minister; farmer; unsuccessful campaign, surveyor, Chester County (1859); elected, president, school board, Schuylkill Township; vice president, Penn Mutual Insurance Company (1867-1879); unsuccessful campaign, treasurer, Pennsylvania (1875); president, Penn Mutual Insurance Company (1879-1887); died, January 4, 1888 in Chester County, Pennsylvania; interred, Schuylkill Friends Cemetery, Phoenixville, Chester County, Pennsylvania.