He descended from Hendrick Pannybakker (Dutch for "maker of titles"), an émigré from Holland and a surveyor for William Penn. A member of the General Assembly, helped write the state Constitution of 1837. First President of the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad. Grandfather of Pennsylvania Governor Samuel Whitaker Pennypacker (1903-1907)
He descended from Hendrick Pannybakker (Dutch for "maker of titles"), an émigré from Holland and a surveyor for William Penn. A member of the General Assembly, helped write the state Constitution of 1837. First President of the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad. Grandfather of Pennsylvania Governor Samuel Whitaker Pennypacker (1903-1907)
