Biography

10/18/1802 - 03/10/1872

PENNIMAN, Dr. William A., a Representative from Allegheny County; born, October 18, 1802 in Albany, Albany County, NY; graduated, Brown University; M.D., Jefferson Medical College (now Sidney Kimmel Medical College), 1827; physician; elected as an Anti-Mason to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives to serve the 1837-1838, 1838-1839 and 1840 terms; not a candidate for reelection to the House for the 1841 term; president, Minnesota State Medical Institute; director, Minneapolis Bank; died, March 10, 1872 in Elizabeth, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania; interred, Old Elizabeth Cemetery, Elizabeth, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania.