Union County, SD Biographies.....Pennel, D. R. 1837 - 
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Author: Geo. A. Ogle & Co. (1897)

D. R. PENNEL, a leading agriculturist and apiarist of Union county, and one of
the oldest settlers in this part, residing in section 12, Civil Bend township,
was the eldest of a family of six children. He is a native of Bedford county,
Pa., and was born January 1, 1837, a son of Jacob and Rosella (Jay) Pennel, to
whom were also born our subject's brother, Thomas, and four sisters, viz.:
Margaret Pennel, Elizabeth O'Neal, Juliana Drake and Nancy Jane Diehl. His
parents were reared and died in their native county. Mr. Pennel's father being a
farmer it was but natural that he, his eldest son, should follow in his
footsteps, and the home farm was where he grew to manhood. In i860 he came west
to Black Hawk county, Iowa, and settled there, it being in the spring of that
year, where he continued to reside until 1870. Union county first extended its
hospitality to Mr. Pennel during the latter year when he arrived at his present
location. He bought a man's right to a homestead, which consisted of 120 acres
of land and one of those, at the time, universal log cabins covered with dirt
that every old settler remembers. Five acres of this property had been broken
and fenced in with large cotton wood logs, some of which were forty feet in
length. During his early residence here he operated a shingle mill, and
manufactured many thousands of that useful article of cottonwood timber. Upon
the advent of railroads, however, he discontinued operations in that line. He
has lived here continuously, and now owns 160 acres, 100 of which are under
cultivation. He is also an enthusiast on the subject of bee culture, and has in
his apiary generally about twenty swarms of that busy and interesting little
insect.

   Mr. Pennel was united in marriage in 1859, shortly before he started west, to
Miss Lucy A. Steckman, a daughter of one of the old families of his native
county. They are the parents of ten children, one deceased — Douglas — who died
when a young man, and nine living, as follows: Charles, married Miss Flora
Summy, has three children and lives in Civil Bend township; Lillie, wife of
Charles Reams, one child, lives in Spink; Mattie, wife of Robert Pond, five
children, resides in Civil Bend township; Clara, wife of Harvey Noggle, one
child, lives in Spink; Frank, married Miss Lottie Frank, two children, makes his
home in Civil Bend township; Harry, resides at home; Victoria, wife of George
Booth, one child, lives in the vicinity; and Minnie May and Rosetta at home.

    Mr. Pennel is closely affiliated with the Farmers' Alliance, and, although
politically he has been a Democrat, at present is independent. He is a man of
good common sense, and makes use of it; has served one term as county
commissioner (three years), and has for many years been connected in official
capacities with the schools, in the faithful discharge of the duties of which he
takes much interest.


Additional Comments:

Extracted from:

MEMORIAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD
OF 
Turner, Lincoln, Union and Clay Counties,
SOUTH DAKOTA.

Containing Biographical Sketches of Hundreds of Prominent Old Settlers and
Representative Citizens, with a Review of their Life Work; their Identity with
the Growth and Development of these Counties; Reminiscences of Personal History
and Pioneer Life; and other Interesting and Valuable Matter which should be
Preserved in History.

ILLUSTRATED
CHICAGO.
GEO. A. OGLE & CO.
Publishers, Engravers and Book Manufacturers.
1897.


Biography is the only true history.—EMERSON.

A people that take no pride in the noble achievements of remote ancestors will
never achieve anything worthy to be remembered with pride by remote
generations.—MACAULAY.


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