Howard County IN Archives Biographies.....Penn, Thomas Henry 1857 - 
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Author: Jackson Morrow

THOMAS HENRY PENN.

   The history of England has always been one pervaded with intense interest,
especially to America, where a certain kinship is felt, for it has to do with a
sterling race of people, possessing admirable qualities of heart and mind and
ever vigilant to push the car of civilization up the steeps, even if the most
sanguinary methods have to be resorted to, and it is of a scion of such
praiseworthy people that the biographer now essays to tell in a brief life history.

   Thomas Henry Penn was born in Birmingham, England, in 1857, and when a lad of
seventeen years immigrated to America, first settling in Hamilton, Ontario,
Canada, where he remained one year and where he worked in the drawing department
of the Great Western Railroad Company. He then engaged in the mercantile
business in southern Illinois several years and then spent eight years in
Chattanooga as an architect, at which he was eminently successful. In 1895 he
came to Kokomo to assume the responsible position of superintendent of the
ArmstrongLandon factory, in which capacity he is still identified with this
company, having shown his un-equaled ability as a manager of men and overseer of
factory work. The factory employs twenty men and also operates lumber yards.
This company does a general lumber business of a high grade; also manufactures
showcases and does all kinds of interior woodwork, together with various kinds
of similar work, all of which is done to order. Mr. Penn draws plans and attends
to all details of the work, which is always of a first-class nature. The annual
business of this firm is about one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Owing to
the fact that the factory makes a specialty of hardwood products a great amount
of lumber is purchased by its agents in various fields.

   Mr. Penn has devoted himself exclusively to his duties and his wide
experience in this line of work renders his skill and good judgment unexcelled.

   The subject was united in marriage to Sadie Wilkinson, daughter of Judge W.
R. Wilkinson, of Friedsville, Illinois, the wedding having occurred while the
subject was a resident of the southern part of that state. Three children have
been born to this union, namely: Edward, bookkeeper in the office of the
ArmstrongLan-don Company, Kokomo: Thomas Henry, Jr., connected with the Howard
County National Bank at Kokomo; Elenor is a graduate of the Kokomo high school.
The Penn family subscribes to the Presbyterian church, and no family in Kokomo
is held in any higher esteem than that of Mr. Penn.


Additional Comments:
From:

HISTORY OF HOWARD COUNTY INDIANA
BY
JACKSON MORROW, B. A.
ILLUSTRATED
VOL. II
B. F. BOWEN & COMPANY
INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA

(circa 1909)


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