Biography

10/20/1835 - 12/17/1886

PENNYPACKER, Dr. Nathan, A., a Representative from Chester County; born, October 20, 1835 in Schuylkill Township, Chester County, Pa.; attended, Freeland Seminary (now Ursinus College); M.D., Philadelphia College of Medicine, 1856; captain, Company K,  30th Regiment, 4th Pennsylvania Volunteer Reserves (1861-1864, Civil War); physician; elected, school board, Charlestown Township (1859-1861); elected as a Republican to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives in 1864, 1865 and 1866; not a candidate for reelection to the House (1867); farmer; member, board of commissioners, State Lunatic Hospital at Norristown (1877-1878); aide-de-camp, Governor Henry M. Hoyt (1882); unsuccessful campaign, United States Congress (1882); unsuccessful campaign, Pennsylvania State Senate (1882); died, December 17, 1886 in Phoenixville, Chester County, Pennsylvania; interred, Morris Cemetery, Phoenixville, Chester County, Pennsylvania.