Alameda-San Joaquin-Nevada County CA Archives Biographies.....Pennington, Andrew R. 1842 - 
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Author: Lewis Publishing Co. (1891)

DR. ANDREW R. PENNINGTON, dental surgeon at Haywards, at corner of Main and
Calhoun streets, was born at Hillsboro, Ohio, August 26, 1842, the eldest of
fifteen children of Jacob and Mary J. (Keys) Pennington. His father was born in
Virginia, October 4, 1816, and moved with his family to the State of Ohio in
1826; he is a fanner by vocation. Dr. Pennington in 1862 enlisted as a private
soldier in the Sixtieth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and subsequently in the
Twenty-fourth Battery of Light Artillery of that State, and was mustered out of
the service in 1864. After the war he returned to his native State and engaged
in the live-stock trade until 1866, when he went to Macomb, Illinois, and
remained there two and a half years. After spending a year in Kansas, he came in
1870 to California to improve his health. He visited San Diego, Lathrop and San
Jose, and spent a year, 1874-75, in Oakland. In the fall of the latter year he
went to Salem, Oregon, where he studied dentistry until 1878. Returning to
California he located at Lathrop two years; then he was one year at Grass
Valley, and then until 1887 at Nevada City, when he finally located at Haywards,
where he has established a good reputation and has a good business. Politically
he is a Republican; is a prominent member of the Grand Army of the Republic, and
also affiliates with the Druids and" Ancient Order of United Workmen at
Haywards. He was married in Ohio to Miss Martha A. Parker, and they have two
children,—John E. and Ira S.

Additional Comments:
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Memorial and Biographical History of Northern California.

Illustrated, Containing a History of this Important Section of the Pacific Coast
from the Earliest Period of its Occupancy to the Present Time, together with
Glimpses of its Prospective Future; Full-Page Steel Portraits of its most
Eminent Men, and Biographical Mention of many of its Pioneers and also of
Prominent Citizens of To-day.

"A people that takes no pride in the noble achievements of remote ancestors will
never achieve anything worthy to be remembered with pride by remote
descendents." – Macauley.

CHICAGO
THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY
1891.


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