Biography

06/26/1787 - 08/12/1865

PENNELL, Benjamin, a Representative from Lancaster County; born, June 26, 1787 in Pennsylvania; ensign, 3rd Regiment, Pennsylvania Militia (War of 1812); teacher; appointed, justice of the peace, Elizabeth and Warwick Townships, Lancaster County (1825-1826); elected, delegate, Democrat-Republican County Convention (1828); elected, delegate, Anti-Mason County Convention (1833); school board secretary, Warwick Township (1834); unsuccessful campaign, prothonotary, Lancaster County (1839); elected as a Whig to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives in 1840 and 1841; not a candidate for reelection to the House (1842); unsuccessful campaign, register of wills, Lancaster County (1845); died, August 12, 1865 in Lancaster, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania; interred, Lancaster Cemetery, Lancaster, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.