Born in Spencer, Clay Iowa. The son of Charles Seymour Penfield and Susan Adella Potter. He graduated from Oberlin College in Ohio where he received a civil engineering degree. During his freshman year and during a hazing episode, he was thrown into water, tied to a tree and left over night which caused him respiratory problems his entire life, and precluded him from military service.
A few years after college he became the president of an oil company in Houston, Texas. He married Jessamine McFarland in 1904 and had two daughters:
Elsie Penfield and Carolyn Jayne Penfield.
He enjoyed playing the violin while his wife, Jessamine played the piano.
He was inducted as a Mason in 1906. where he was a "Master" Mason at the El Campo, Texas lodge of Free Masons. His portrait still hangs in the lodge today.
He suffered a stroke on the train while coming back from his sister Perle's funeral and died 8 months later.
Born in Spencer, Clay Iowa. The son of Charles Seymour Penfield and Susan Adella Potter. He graduated from Oberlin College in Ohio where he received a civil engineering degree. During his freshman year and during a hazing episode, he was thrown into water, tied to a tree and left over night which caused him respiratory problems his entire life, and precluded him from military service.
A few years after college he became the president of an oil company in Houston, Texas. He married Jessamine McFarland in 1904 and had two daughters:
Elsie Penfield and Carolyn Jayne Penfield.
He enjoyed playing the violin while his wife, Jessamine played the piano.
He was inducted as a Mason in 1906. where he was a "Master" Mason at the El Campo, Texas lodge of Free Masons. His portrait still hangs in the lodge today.
He suffered a stroke on the train while coming back from his sister Perle's funeral and died 8 months later.
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