From: Nancee(McMurtrey)Seifert Date: 07/23/05 20:25:34 To: IALUCAS-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Fw: A Successful Banker--H.O.Penick Hi All: I thought I would forward Gary's most welcomed note -- perhaps there are some of you out there who can make a connection. Nancee ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From: gary burke Date: 07/22/05 10:07:58 To: iggy29@rnetinc.net Subject: A Successful Banker--H.O.Penick Hello Nancee Seifert! Some of your postings have helped me a whole lot !!! Thank you very much! I am decended from H.O.Penick & Mabel Bradbury Wadleigh(of Oquawka,IL. & Burlington,Iowa Mabels daughter was my grandmother(Mildred Wadleigh Penick,who married Charles Walton Morton Jr.( of Omaha,NE & James Morton & Son Co -Wholesale/Retail Hardware Distributors for most major lines in the Mid-West They were in Burlingtoh,Iowa Before that & Charles Walton Morton Sr. & his Father Had the Co. there. James Morton & Mary Walton & her sister came from Chester on the Dee River in the U.K. by way of N.Y. & IL.) Mildred & Charles W.Jr. where married at New Orleans,La.in 1920. They moved to Omaha,NE. then had two daughters; Patricia at Omaha in 1920(my Mother) & Cynthia in Camb.,MA.in 1929( my aunt).I am interested in anything about H.O.Penick(Harry O.Penick, Harold Otho Penick,Harry O.Panich)He died(1940) as a retired Pres. of Peoples Bank in Seattle,WA.He was also Pres Of United Warehouse Co. At Seattle. He was still Married at death to wife # 3 Ruth N. Brough of Seattle. Wife # 2 was Elizabeth(Bessie as in Best Foods Inc.)Ratleff Foster of Franklin & New Orleans,La.(daughter of Sen.Murphy J. Foster). Wife # 1 was Mabel( Bradbury) Wadleigh(daughter of Ella (Bradbury- wife #2 married at Oquawka,IL )Wadleigh & Samuel Wadleigh( born at Hatley,Quebec a Loyalist town founded in 1802 by his grandfather Ephraim Wadleigh & 2 Associates: Mr.Cull & Mr.Hovey they all came from New England 1798 & before that.) A coal,Oil & Lumber dealer at Burlington,Ia.She died in child birth with twins in 1902 with none surviving. (Samuel (Mary Ann Phelps wife # 1) & Luke(Phebe Rowell) Wadleigh Moved with their wives & family to Oquawka,IL. from Hatley.) All are burried at Oquawak Town Cematary in One plot up to My grandmother I hope to find out more about H.O. Penick. I know where he was born (chariton,Iowa) who his parents were,where they were married. I know he was a Captian during the Spanish/American war. He was a Banker at three Banks at Chariton, then at Central Bank & Trust Co-121 Camp St.,New Orleans,La,then at Peoples Bank in Seattle,WA. I beleive that he was an Episcopalian as most of his line was & is. As are my people back then, but I am not sure. I am looking for pictures Best for now, JWM in Boston,Ma.