This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1894 edition. Excerpt: ... chapter xii. his impress upon later generations-statesmen and professional men--war record. if we accept the laws of heredity (and with the accumulation of facts upon this subject, how can they be rejected?), the impress made by a man upon subsequent generations may well be considered in forming an estimate of the value of his life. The descendants of Hendrick and Friedrich Pannebecker to the present time certainly exceed three thousand in number, since a record (far from complete) has been made of over twentyfive hundred. In this large throng, eight have been clergymen, one of whom, MatthiasPennypacker, becameabishop among the Mennonites in the last century. Fifteen have been physicians, including Benjamin Pennebaker, resident physician at the Philadelphia House of Correction; Jacob Pennypacker, president of the Medical Society of Chester County; E. Z. Derr, surgeon in the United States Navy; Isaac A. Pennypacker, Professor of Theory and Practice in the Philadelphia College of Medicine, and James Tyson, Professor of Clinical Medicine and Dean of the Medical Faculty of the University of Pennsylvania, and the learned author of many standard works upon medicine. Twenty-eight have been lawyers, and of these three were district attorneys and seven were judges, including Green B. Samuels, justice of the Virginia Court of Appeals. In politics, Peter, son of Hendrick, was assessor of Philadelphia County, and Henry Vanderslice, of the third generation, was sheriff of Berks County before the Revolution. Since that time there have been three burgesses, nine Assemblymen, five State Senators, a State agent, two county t