BIO: Charles Fowler PENEPACKER, Clearfield County, PA
 
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From Twentieth Century History of Clearfield County, Pennsylvania,
and Representative Citizens, by Roland D. Swoope, Jr.,
Chicago: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Company, 1911, page 961.
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  CHARLES FOWLER PENEPACKER, one of the progressive young business men connected 
with the great industries carried on at Morrisdale Mines, Clearfield county, 
Pa., is manager of the Morrisdale Supply Company's store and has had 
considerable training along commercial lines.  He was born December 18, 1878, at 
Mifflin, Mifflin county, Pa., a son of Rev. G. D. and Nettie (Black) Penepacker.
  Rev. G. D. Penepacker was born at Lewistown, Pa., and for forty-four years he 
was actively engaged in the ministry of the Methodist Episcopal church.  He was 
a member of the Central Pennsylvania Conference.  At the time of his death, 
which occurred on January 7, 1911, in his seventieth year, he was pastor of the 
Fifteenth Street M. E. church, at Huntingdon, Pa., and formerly had been 
stationed at Clearfield.  He married Nettie Black, who survives him.  She was 
born at Huntingdon, Pa.  Seven children were born to the above marriage and 
there are three now living, namely:  Wilbur F., who is connected with the 
wholesale dry goods house of J. V. Farwell & Co., Chicago, Ill., married Martha 
Bartell; Nettie, who is the wife of James L. Curtin, residing at Russelton, 
where Mr. Curtin is manager of the Russelton Store Company; and Charles F.
  Charles F. Penepacker completed the High School course at Clearfield and then 
entered Dickinson Seminary at Williamsport, where he was graduated in the class 
of 1898.  For a short time he was in the grocery business as manager, at 
Williamsport and then went to Chicago, where he was engaged as manager of a 
department in the wholesale dry goods house of John B. Farwell.  From Chicago he 
came back to Pennsylvania and for five years was manager of the Winburne Trading 
Company, at Winburne, and in 1908 came to Morrisdale Mines and accepted his 
present responsible position.  He has won confidence by his business integrity 
and has the enviable reputation of being a thorough-going, able man, and a 
first-class citizen.
  On November 20, 1907, Mr. Penepacker was married to Miss Bessie Maxwell, a 
daughter of Joseph and Elizabeth (Husted) Maxwell, who were residents of 
Winburne, Pa., although Mrs. Penepacker was reared in Tioga county.  They have 
one son, Charles Mexwell.  In politics Mr. Penepacker is a Republican.  He is a 
member of Williamsport Lodge, No. 106, F. & A. M.; Williamsport Consistory; and 
the Mystic Shrine at Wilkesbarre.  They are attendants of the Methodist 
Episcopal church.