Biography

09/10/1819 - 08/31/1899


PENNYPACKER, Dr. Matthias J., a Representative from Chester County; born, September 10, 1819 in Schuylkill Township, Chester County, Pa.; M.D., University of Pennsylvania, 1841; physician; assistant manager, Pheonix Iron Works; general manager, Durham Iron Works; farmer; elected as a Whig to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives in 1854; died, August 31, 1899 in Schuylkill Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania; interred, Morris Cemetery, Phoenixville, Chester County, Pennsylvania. 


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