Name/Title
Penick, William Ridgeway, Photo, c. 1880Entry/Object ID
P2020.1.379Description
Penick, William Ridgeway, Photo, c. 1880. b/w. Photo of Penick from "History of Buchanan County, 1881" which includes short biographies. Photo depicts Penick in mid-life. He is bald, long beard, short mustache, wearing dark jacket with vest. See Museum Graphic, Spring, 1956, Vol VIII, No. 2, p. 8.
Penick was a St. Joseph businessman, coming to the Platte Purchase as a boy. He engaged in businesses such as a drug store and bookstore. He was President of St. Joseph & Denver Railroad. He was Mayor of St. Joseph. During the Civil War he was Brigadier General on the staff of Ben Loan. He later raised a voluntary unit, 5th Calvary, that guarded Northwest Missouri from guerillas.
Printed below photo: Alex Lozo, Photographer, Framed by T.F. Indermill."
Label attached to back: General William Ridgeway Penick. Photographer taken before 1881. It is in the Alexander Lozo collection. Lent to the Museum Graphic by Central Public Library."
Original digital scan located on History CD 04.Made/Created
Date made
1880Place
City
St. JosephState/Province
MissouriLexicon
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RailroadsSearch Terms
St. Joseph & Denver Railroad, Civil War in St. JosephLegacy Lexicon
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Photograph, DigitalRelationships
Related Person or Organization
Person or Organization
William R. PenickProvenance
Notes
From Lozo Collection of Early St. Joseph Leaders, originals at Central Public Library