Pennypacker studied law at the University of Pennsylvania and opened his own law practice in 1866. He left the emergency militia in late July 1863 and resumed his education.
He fought in the skirmish at Witmer Farm, north of Gettysburg on June 26, 1863, an action that saw his newly recruited regiment retreat to Harrisburg when confronted by veteran Virginia cavalry. He enlisted as a private in Company F of the 26th Pennsylvania Volunteer Militia and trained at Camp Curtin. In 1863, he answered a call to arms by Governor Andrew Curtin during the Gettysburg Campaign of the American Civil War. Pennypacker's early education was interrupted several times. His great great great grandfather Hendrick Pannebecker emigrated to Pennsylvania in 1699. He was the fourth great-grandson of Abraham op den Graeff. He received his education at the Grovemont Seminary at Phoenixville and at the West Philadelphia Institute. He and his grandfather Whitaker witnessed Abraham Lincoln's speech outside Independence Hall in February 1861, standing 20 feet (6.1 m) away. Pennypacker and Anna Maria Whitaker, and the grandson of Matthias and Sarah Anderson (daughter of Isaac Anderson), and of Joseph and Grace Whitaker. Pennypacker was born in Phoenixville, Pennsylvania on April 9, 1843.
Ī judge assigned to Pennsylvania's Court of Common Pleas system prior to his election as governor, he also researched and wrote about Pennsylvania history. Samuel Whitaker Pennypacker (Ap– September 2, 1916) was an American politician and the 23rd governor of Pennsylvania, serving from 1903 to 1907.
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