Biography

1813 - 06/20/1891

PENNEY, Thomas, a Representative from Allegheny County; born, 1813 in Pennsylvania; tailor; dry goods merchant; elected, burgess, McKeesport; unsuccessful campaign, Pennsylvania House of Representatives (1849, 1867, 1870); elected as a Whig to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives in 1851; organizer and cashier, First National Bank of McKeesport; died, June 20, 1891 in McKeesport, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania; interred, McKeesport and Versailles Cemetery, McKeesport, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania.