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JONATHAN P. PENNOCK, who, with his son, is conducting a first-class grocery store in Jamestown, was born in Lyme, Grafton county, New Hampshire, October 12, 1824, his parents being Alvin and Zilpha (Kidder) Pennock. Adonijah Pennock (paternal grandfather) was a native of the Green Mountain State and passed most of his days within its borders but a few years before his death he removed to this county. He was a carpenter by trade and followed it until advanced age forbad. His wife was Elizabeth Bacon and they had seven children. Alvin Pennock was born in Vermont in 1800 and came from there to Jamestown in 1827 where he was employed as a laborer at the woolen mills, which were established in 1817. He married Zilpha Kidder, who came from the family of Kidders who were among Jamestown’s first settlers, in 1823, and had eight children, two of whom died young. Mr. Pennock was a whig and a member of the Methodist church, in which faith he departed from life in 1842.

Jonathan P. Pennock, upon arriving at school age, began his education and when sufficiently advanced attended the Jamestown academy where he completed the course of instruction taught, and leaving school secured employment in the Jamestown woolen mills, where he worked until twenty years of age and then employed himself at chair manufacturing.

On August 31, 1848, he married Clarissa B. Price, who, like his mother, came from one of the oldest families of the county. They have been the parents of four children: one who died in infancy; Charles P., died when fifteen years old; Frank A., in business with his father, married May Martin, daughter of Dr. W. B. Martin, a prominent physician of Busti, and they have two children: William J., and Marjorie; and Lee J. who is a machinist and draughtsman is the youngest son of J. P. Pennock.

J. P. Pennock is an active republican and served as constable and deputy sheriff for a number of years. He also filled the office of tax collector for a period of twelve years. For about one year during the war he conducted a grocery, and since 1877 has been in that business with his son, their store being located on the corner of Main and Sixth streets. They have a large trade and are doing an excellent business. Mr. Pennock is a Baptist and for the past twenty-seven or twenty-eight years has been an active member of Mt. Moriah Lodge, No. 145, F. and A. M.