Geo Wesley Pennisten
of Pebble Township, Pike County, Ohio
George Wesley Pennisten, junior member of the firm of Humphreys, Pennisten & Company, dealers in dry-goods, groceries and general merchandise, Byington, was born April 02, 1848 in Pike County. He lived on a farm till seventeen years of age, and was educated at the common schools, after which he taught school during the winter seasons and farmed in the summer season for a number of years. He was elected Assessor of Sunfish Township when twenty-one years old and served three years. He was Township Clerk one year, and served as a member of the Board of Education of Pebble Township, and also School Director in Sub-district No. 9. He also served as County School Examiner from 1872 till 1875, and was appointed to that position in the spring of 1883. He has been Treasurer of Mifflin Township since 1879, and is serving his second year as member of the Board of Education of this Township. He was Assistant Postmaster at Idaho, Pike County, two years, and in November 1880, was appointed Postmaster of Byington. In 1875 he engaged in his present mercantile business with his father-in-law, under the firm name of Humphreys & Pennisten. He was married February 21, 1875 to Calverna M., daughter of John and Elizabeth A. (Mustard) Humphreys, of Byington. They have five children - Clarence E., John W., Charles R., F. Gram and Leroy H. Mrs. Pennisten belongs to the Methodist Episcopal Church. Our subject's father, William Pennisten, was born in Pike County, and was married to Mary Ann E. Anderson, a native of Virginia.
History of Lower Scioto Valley, Ohio - 1884
Published by the Scioto County Genealogy Society
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Pike Co. Genealogy & Historical Society
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