Jacob B. Penn Biography - Grant County Wisconsin

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Submitted by David W. Taft, dtaft @ cowtown.net

History of Grant County Wisconsin
Western Historical Publishing, Chicago, July 1881
Town of Platteville, Biographical Sketches, Page 916

JACOB B. PENN, retired, Platteville, Wis.; born in Patrick Co., Va., in 1818; 
when only 3 or 4 years of age his father, Abraham Penn, removed to Christian 
Co., Ky., where young Penn was brought up; in the spring of 1839 he left 
Kentucky, and spent the summer in Illinois and Missouri, then came to the mines 
in Grant Co., Wis., the next fall, and to Platteville in the fall of 1840; he 
was engaged in mining in Grant Co. till 1850, then went to California and 
followed the same business till 1852, when he returned to Grant Co., and bought 
a farm two and one-half miles east of Platteville; he followed farming till 
1866, then sold out and engaged in the hardware business in Platteville, in 
company with L. M. Devendorf, firm of Devendorf & Penn, which he continued till 
April, 1877, since which time he has been out of business; he was married in 
Platteville in 1849, to Samantha Collins, of Jamestown, Grant Co.; his first 
wife was a lady of the same name, married in Missouri in 1846; has no children 
living.