[Joseph Judd Pennell and Joseph Stanley Pennell collection] 1896-1925.

Pennell, Joseph Judd, 1866-1922

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The son of a confederate soldier, Joseph Judd Pennell was born March 9, 1866 in Kings Creek, North Carolina. When he was about 18, his father's business failed and the family could no longer afford the cost of private education in the North Carolina schools. A cousin returning from a trip to Kansas told of the good public schools in Kansas, so the decision was made to leave North Carolina and settle in Kansas. In his first years in Kansas, Joseph Pennell worked as a carpenter making coffins for ...

Pennell, Joseph Stanley, 1903-1963

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Joseph S. Pennell (1903-1963), novelist and short story writer, was born in junction City, Kansas and educated at the University of Kansas and Oxford. He was a newspaper reporter and teacher. His first novel, The History of Rome Hanks and Kindred Matters (1944) was a book "based on the author’s recollections from his own Kansas family as well as his reading of more than 1,000 Civil War books and the 128 volumes of the Official Records, Pennell depicted in Rome Hanks the ...

Pennell family.

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Kansas Photographers Association

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