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	FRANK O. PADGETT Source: Past and Present of Knox County, Ohio - Vol. II - Publ. by B. F. Bowen & Company, Indianapolis, Indiana - 1912 - Page 666
	WARREN T. PAGE Source: Past and Present of Knox County, Ohio - Vol. II - Publ. by B. F. Bowen & Company, Indianapolis, Indiana - 1912 - Page 803
	PETER J. PARKER.  There is no positive rule for achieving success, and yet in the life of the successful man there are always lessons which might well be followed.  The man who gains prosperity is he who can see and utilize opportunities that come in his path.  This seems to have been done by Peter J. Parker, the present able and popular sheriff of Knox county, a man who has long figured more or less conspicuously in business and public life in Alt. Vernon, and who, for many reasons, is eminently entitled to specific mention in the history of his section of the Buckeye state, not the least of which is the fact that he is the worthy representative of a sterling old pioneer family whose excellent reputation he has ever sought to keep untarnished.      Mr. Parker was born May 2, 1867, at Gambier, College township, Knox county. He is the son of Peter and Mary (Esterbrook) Parker, both born in England, having emigrated to America when young, the mother with her parents at the age of eight years, the father being twenty-one years of age when he came, unaccompanied.  He first permanently settled at Gambier, Ohio, was married in that place and spent the remainder of his life there.  By trade he was a stone mason and stone cutter and contracted stone bridge work.  He was a man of exemplary character and could claim a very wide circle of friends throughout the county.  His death occurred in January, 1910; his widow still resides in Gambier, where she has a pleasant home.      The son, Peter J. Parker, spent his childhood and youth at Gambier where he attended the public schools.  When a young man he learned telegraphy in the railroad office at Gambier, and his first employment was in November, 1888, as agent and operator at Condit, Delaware county, Ohio, for the Cleveland, Akron & Columbus Railroad Company, remaining there until Apr. 11, 1890, when he went to Warsaw, Coshocton county, as agent and operator, remaining at Warsaw until August, 1892, when he became the agent of the Adams Express Company at Mt. Vernon, filling this position with his usual pronounced success and general satisfaction until Nov. 1, 1895, when he went to Brink Haven, Knox county, as agent for the Cleveland, Akron & Columbus railroad and remained in Brink Haven until August, 1907, when he gave up the railroad position and entered the Brink Haven Banking Company as cashier, which he held in a manner that reflected much credit upon himself and to the entire satisfaction of the stockholders, other officials and all concerned until Dec. 1, 1908.  Having always been active in political affairs, he had made the race for sheriff of Knox county that year and had been elected at the polls in November, consequently gave up his position with the bank in order to assume his duties as sheriff, which he did in January, 1909.  He handled its affairs with such consummate skill and fairness and proved to be such a popular official that his constituents gladly returned him to this office in the November election of 1910 and he entered upon his second term as sheriff on Jan. 2, 1911, and is now discharging the duties of the same in a manner that has elicited the hearty approval of all concerned, irrespective of party alignment.      Politically, Mr. Parker is a Democrat and has always been regarded as a reliable party man.  While a resident at Brink Haven he served as village clerk for two years.  In whatever position as public servant he has been called upon to fill he has been found to be obliging, courteous, capable, ever painstaking and alert to serve the people in the best possible manner.      Mr. Parker was married on Sept. 27, 1900, to Ida McDonnold, the accomplished daughter of and Isabelle (Winslow) McDonnold, a highly respected family of Brink Haven.  This union has resulted in the birth of one son, Thurston Parker.      Fraternally, Mr. Parker is a member of the Masonic order, the Knights of Pythias, the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks.  He was reared and baptized an Episcopalian and he adheres to that faith, though not a member of the church.  Mrs. Parker belongs to the Methodist Episcopal church. Source: Past and Present of Knox County, Ohio - Vol. II - Publ. by B. F. Bowen & Company, Indianapolis, Indiana - 1912 - Page 692
	SILAS PARR Source: Past and Present of Knox County, Ohio - Vol. II - Publ. by B. F. Bowen & Company, Indianapolis, Indiana - 1912 - Page 708
	WILLIAM P. PELKER Source: Past and Present of Knox County, Ohio - Vol. II - Publ. by B. F. Bowen & Company, Indianapolis, Indiana - 1912 - Page 883
	JOHN PENN Source: Past and Present of Knox County, Ohio - Vol. II - Publ. by B. F. Bowen & Company, Indianapolis, Indiana - 1912 - Page 529
	LAWRENCE C. PENN Source: Past and Present of Knox County, Ohio - Vol. II - Publ. by B. F. Bowen & Company, Indianapolis, Indiana - 1912 - Page 764
	WILLIAM PENN Source: Past and Present of Knox County, Ohio - Vol. II - Publ. by B. F. Bowen & Company, Indianapolis, Indiana - 1912 - Page 528
	WILLIAM W. PENNELL, M. D.  The man who devotes his talents and energies to the noble work of administering to the ills and alleviating the sufferings of humanity is pursuing a calling which, in dignity, importance and beneficial results, is second to no other.  If true to his profession and earnest in his efforts to enlarge his sphere of usefulness, he is indeed a benefactor to his kind, for to him more than to any other man are entrusted the safety, the comfort, and, in many instances, the lives of those who place themselves under his care and profit by his services.  Standing in the front rank of Knox county's professional man is Dr. William W. Pennell, of Mt. Vernon, who is not only held in high esteem for his professional ability, but for his public-spirited nature, his wholesome private and social life, and that he has become one of the influential citizens of the locality of which this history treats, although a comparative newcomer.      Doctor Pennell, the third son of Hugh and Martha A. (Liggett) Pennell, was born at Benton, Holmes county, Ohio, Feb. 2, 1853.  His father was a native of Maryland,  his mother of Pennsylvania, both being of English descent.  These parents came to Ohio as young people, where married in Holmes county and there settled and spent the rest of their lives.  Hugh Pennell was a harness manufacturer; politically, he strongly opposed the fugitive slave law by assisting to operate the "underground railroad," a matter which required some courage in his locality.  He was the first Republican postmaster appointed in Holmes county after the election of President Lincoln.  A man of strong convictions, he had the courage of advocating what he believed to be right, and his son the basis of his influence.  He died in November, 1900, and his widow joined him in the Summerland in January, 1910.      Doctor Pennell was reared in Holmes county, in the atmosphere of a Christian home, and was educated in the schools of his native county.  He began life by teaching school, and having an ambition to become a physician, but penniless and already inured to frugality, he followed teaching while prosecuting his medical studies under the preceptorship of Dr. Isaac H. Hague, of Nashville, with whom he remained four years, not hesitating to perform any service to further the fulfillment of his ambition.  He received the degree of Doctor of Medicine in February, 1875, from the medical department of the University of Wooster at Cleveland, and immediately associated himself with Doctor Hague in the practice of medicine at Nashville.  In April, 1875, he married Melvina M. Williams, daughter of James and Mercy (Morgan) Williams, of Monroe township, Holmes county, and, in October, 1876, succeeded his preceptor at Nashville.  In 1882 Adelbert College, of the Western Reserve, conferred on him the ad eundem degree of Doctor of Medicine.  In 1884, after a post-graduate course in special studies at Philadelphia, he moved to Fredericktown, Knox county, where he remained in the successful practice of his profession until 1904, when, wishing to enlarge his sphere of work, he again pursued a post-graduate course on special lines, this time in New York, and then located at No. 205 North Main street, Mountain Vernon.  Here he has maintained his residence, busy with the affairs of his work.  Although specializing in diseases of the eye, ear, nose and throat, it is demanded of him to do a vast amount of general practice.  It is not too much to say that his professional reputation is widespread and his opinion sought and esteemed.  By nature a student, it has been easy for him to keep abreast of the times in all that pertains to his vocation and allied subjects, and to preserve a full survey of matters in general.      Doctor Pennell is a member of the Knox County Medical Society, serving as temporary chairman during its present organization, and once its delegate to the Ohio State Medical Association; a member and ex-first vice-president of the Ohio State Medical Association, member and ex-president Ohio State Pediatric Society, member of the Mississippi Valley Medical Association, the American Medical Association, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the American Association for the Prevention and Cure of Tuberculosis, and, in all, has presented some thirty acceptable and valuable papers to state and national societies in the past twenty-five years.  A member of the first Pan-American Medical Congress, which met at Washington D. C., in 1893, he was one of the delegates from the United States to the fifth congress, which met at Guatemala City, Guatemala, Central America, in 1908, and presented an able paper before that body.      The Doctor is a literary man of no mean ability, having a clear, forceful style that grips his readers with the neat-rounded message he has to convey.  Aside from his contributions to medical literature, he has written "Poetical Compositions," a pleasing metrical volume, revealing that rhythm and poesy are in his essence; "The Buckeye Doctor," a tale of the struggles and final triumph of a young doctor in the earlier days of medicine in Ohio - racy, humorous, sincere, pathetic: "Jonas Hawley," a politico-social novel, abounding in references to historical conditions in Ohio during the Civil war, especially the Brough-Vallandigham campaign; "Dan," the romance of a nameless boy, his adventures, experiences, and triumphs, in vindicating his mother, is forthcoming and is awaited by a widening circle of admirers among whom the Doctor has become popular.  Among his shorter productions that have been published in the magazines are, "not the King's Will," the story of the Babylonian captivity; "Mixing Medicine and Law," an episode of medical practice which might be duplicated by scores of physicians, and "Sammy's Substitute," the story of a boy who was curiously rewarded for faithful service.      A Presbyterian in religious belief, Doctor Pennell is, politically, a Republican; and, while he has always taken a good citizen's interest in public matters, he has never sought the emoluments of public office.  Educational affairs appealed to him differently, however, for, while living at Fredericktown, he was elected to the board of education several successive terms.  Here it pleased him to see the public schools rise to a high plane of usefulness, and, for the ten years that he served as president of the board of education, gave his efforts to that end.  Fraternally, he is a Mason.  A member of Thrall Lodge No. 170, at Fredericktown, he served it as master for four years; of Clinton Chapter, Royal Arch Masons; Kinsman Council, Royal and Select Masters, and Clinton Commandery, Knights Templar, at Mt. Vernon; of Aladdin Temple, Ancient Arabic Order of Nobles of the Mystic Shrine; Columbus Chapter, Rose Croix H. R. D. M., eighteenth degree, Valley of Columbus; and of Ohio Sovereign Consistory, S. P. R. S., thirty-second degree, Cincinnati, Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite.      The Doctor has been twice married.  To his first union two daughters and one son were born, all at Nashville:  Edna E., now Sister Cecilia, Order of St. Anne, Arlington Heights, Massachusetts; Carroll Celsus died in infancy; Ada Aline, wife of J. Handel Williams, editor of the Republican-Record, Washington C. H., Ohio, who has presented her father with two grandsons and two granddaughters.  The wife and mother passed to her rest in October, 1903, after a long period of sickness.  In April, 1908, the Doctor was again married, uniting with Mrs. Emma J. Seiler, daughter of E. Casteel, late of Hayesville, Ohio.      Personally the Doctor is a genial, high-minded, progressive and honorable gentleman whom it is a pleasure to meet; profound scholar, versatile writer, able physician and surgeon; an unassuming representative of the masses.  The comfortable home of the Pennells, at No. 205 North Main street, presided over by the pleasing personality of the wife, contains all the elements of cheer and hospitality. Source: Past and Present of Knox County, Ohio - Vol. II - Publ. by B. F. Bowen & Company, Indianapolis, Indiana - 1912 - Page 431
	JOHN J. PFOUTS Source: Past and Present of Knox County, Ohio - Vol. II - Publ. by B. F. Bowen & Company, Indianapolis, Indiana - 1912 - Page 673
	ELIJAH PURDY Source: Past and Present of Knox County, Ohio - Vol. II - Publ. by B. F. Bowen & Company, Indianapolis, Indiana - 1912 - Page 476
	RICHARD D. PURDY Source: Past and Present of Knox County, Ohio - Vol. II - Publ. by B. F. Bowen & Company, Indianapolis, Indiana - 1912 - Page 476