SOURCE: History of the upper peninsula of Michigan : containing a full account of its early settlement, its growth, development, and resources, an extended description of its iron and copper mines : also, accurate sketches of its counties, cities, towns, and villages ... biographical sketches, portraits of prominent men and early settlers.
Collection: Michigan County Histories Pages 504

J. S. PENBERTHY, druggist, was born January 12, 1843, at Mineral Point, Wis.; spent his childhood to the age of fifteen at school, when he lost his father, and he was compelled to support the family, consisting of mother and four children to twenty years of age; then taught school three years; then spent a year in the mines of Colorado; returned to Wisconsin for three years; then to Northern Michigan for ten years in teaching school; then to Florence, Wis., in the drug business, in which he is still engaged. He was married, at the age of twenty-two, to Miss Mary Emery in 1865. Had one son, and lost his wife in 1869, and was married again in 1872. Is a member of the Odd Fellows and Knights of Pythias.