Benjamin William Penick

Birth Date

1841-06-03

Death Date

1919-01-24

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Green County, Kentucky, retail dealer and trader. Green County native. Son of Thomas B. Penick. Attended Columbia High School. Graduate of Georgetown College in 1860. Retail dealer in Green County, Kentucky in 1861. Married to Elizabeth F. Brummal Penick. Father of Brummal Penick, Mary Lewis Penick Lewis, Sylvan Hundly Penick, and William Clifton Penick. Captain in the Green County Home Guard in 1861. Partner with Isaac W. Ingram in Ingram & Penick in Green County in 1864 and 1865.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Green County, District 1, p. 100A.
Vital Statistics Original Death Certificates – Microfilm (1911-1964), KDLA, Roll #7016217, Green County Deaths, File #9744.
W. H. Perrin, J. H. Battle, and G. C. Kniffin, Kentucky: A History of the State (Louisville: F. A. Battey and Company, 1887), 966-967.
Internal Revenue Assessment Lists for Kentucky, 1862-1866 NARA RG 58, Microfilm Series M768, Roll 17, Green County, Kentucky, 1865, (Accessed via ancestry.com).

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