GEORGE E. PENNELL
George E. Pennell came to Atlantic in 1877, and for the first year was employed in the Bank of Atlantic, at the expiration of which time he engaged in his present business. He was born in Connecticut, where he remained until twenty years of age, when he went to Portland, Maine. He was educated at the Wesleyan University while in Connecticut, and after his removal to Portland entered the law office of Strout and Holmes for the purpose of reading law, where he remained about three years. He was afterward admitted to the bar, and practiced some time in that State, prior to his removal to Iowa. His father, John P., was engaged in the mercantile business at Sac Rapids, near Portland, for a number of years. Mr. Pennell was married in 1878, to Miss May Kidder, a resident of Kennebec county, Maine. They have a family of three children--Iva H., Harry H. and Zina M. Mr. Pennell is a member of the Knight Templars; is an enterprising business man of energy and tact, and has acquired considerable property.
Contributed by Lisa Varnes-Rex from "History of Cass County, Iowa. Together With Sketches of its Towns, Villages and Townships, Educational, Civil, Military and Political History: Portraits of Prominent Persons, and Biographies of Old Settlers and Representative Citizens." Springfield, Ill.: Continental Historical Company, 1884, pg. 385-386.
