Meeker County MN Archives Biographies.....Pennoyer, John B. 1832 - 
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JOHN B. PENNOYER, a prominent resident of the village of Greenleaf, is a native of
Sherbrook county, Lower Canada, born on the 12th of February, 1832. His parents,
Truman and Priscilla H. Pennoyer. were natives of Vermont, and both were born in the
year 1804. The mother died in 1886, but the father is still living, a respected
resident of Ellsworth township, Meeker county. Truman Pennoyer’s father was a
Frenchman, and sailed the seas as a privateer during the revolutionary war,
subsequently settling in Vermont. Truman spent a few years in Canada and then
returned to Vermont. From the latter State he removed to St. LaAvrence county, N.Y.,
taking the family by wagon through the timber over the Plattsburg and Ogdensburg
pike, and through the Chateaugay cedar swamp, to Potsdam, and remained there from
1836 to 1864. He was a cooper by trade, but a farmer by occupation.

    Truman Pennoyer and wife were the parents of seven sons and six daughters. The
three oldest died in infancy, and were buried .at Compton Center, C. E. Three others
died in infancy, and two sisters died after they were grown. Five of their children
are still living—J. B. Pennoyer. O. A. Pennoyer,   H.  H. Pennoyer, Mrs. jJ M.
Howard, of Meeker county, Minn., and Mrs. H. F. Powers, of Cincinnati, Ohio.

    John B. Pennoyer, the subject of this memoir, was reared on a farm, and upon
reaching the age of twenty-four he-left home and started West. He traveled over
various portions of the West, but lived the greater part of the time in Whiteside
and Jersey counties, Ill., until 1864, when he came to Meeker county, Minn., making
the journey from Hastings on foot. He entered a homestead on section 35, in what is
now Greenleaf township, and continued to reside there until August, 1885, when he
rented his farm and started out in search of a locality that would benefit his
health. After spending the fall and winter in Macoupin and Jersey counties, Ill., he
went to Huntsville, Ala., and remained there until September 27, 1886, when he came
back and took up his residence in the village of Greenleaf.

    In the month of September following Mr. Pennoyer’s first arrival in Meeker
county, 1864. he went to Greene county, Ill., and was married to Mary F. Bilbruck, a
daughter of John and Charlotte Bilbruck, who was born in Nottinghamshire, England,
on the 7th of December, 1842. Five children have been born to them — Alice Naomi,
born July 25, 1867, died May 8, 1870; Charlotte Augusta, born December 5, 1870;
Francis Irene, born October 26, 1875, died April 3, 1879; Harmon Lee, born September
4, 1880; and Florence Emma, born June 5, 1884. Mr. Pennoyer has taken an active
interest in all public matters and has held various local offices. In political
matters he affiliates with the republican party.

   Having been identified with the growth and development of Meeker county during a
residence of nearly a quarter of a century, he is well-known to all pioneers, and
none is held in higher esteem. Through his untarnished and unblemished integrity his
word is recognized as being as good as a bond, and he is held in the highest respect
by all who know him. Hospitable, charitable, and enterprising, aiding whatever
enterprise is calculated to benefit either town or county in which he has lived so
long, he has justly earned the high reputation which he bears, of being one of the
most desirable citizens of which any locality can boast.

   We take pleasure in presenting a portrait of Mr. Pennoyer in another department
of this work.


Additional Comments:
Extracted from
Illustrated Album of Biography
Meeker and McLeod Counties, Minnesota
1888


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