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Peter
P. Pentico The
name of Peter P. Pentico will long be remembered by the people of Jasper County,
for he was a man who set a worthy example and was not averse to doing his full
duty as a neighbor and citizen and although he is now sleeping the sleep of the
just that knows no waking, his influence is still felt in Mound Prairie
Township, where he
developed an excellent farmstead
and maintained his home for many years. Mr.
Pentico was born in Clearfield County, Pennsylvania, July 18, 1830.
He was the son of John and Katherine (Young) Pentico, both born in
Germany, from which County they came to America when children and here they grew
to maturity and were married in Philadelphia.
It was in 1831 that John Pentico and family moved to Scott County, Iowa.
He owned eighty acres in Mound Prairie Township, Jasper County, which he
cleared and improved. He was killed
by lightning. Peter
P. Pentico, of this sketch, grew up on the farm and when a boy he worked hard on
the home place, and received his education, which was meager, in Pennsylvania.
He and the other boys were compelled to assist their father clear the
home place, which was heavily timbered, consequently they had little chance to
attend school. At the death of his
father the subject purchased the interest of the other heirs, and after his
marriage, in 1867, he moved to the home farm in Jasper County and here he
improved the land and erected good buildings on it, the country being
principally raw prairie at that time. He
planted groves, which are now large and valuable.
He was a successful farmer, a hard worker and a good manager.
He took an interest in local affairs, but never aspired to public office.
He was a member of the United Brethren Church in early life. Peter
P. Pentico proved his loyalty to the Union by enlisting at Wilton Junction,
Iowa, in the first year of the war, September, 1861, in Company D, Eleventh Iowa
Volunteer Infantry, under Capt. A. I. Sharpe, to serve three years, and the
regiment was assigned to the Iowa Brigade, McClearnand's division, Seventeenth
Army Corps, Army of the Tennessee. He
proved to be a gallant soldier, participating in the following engagements:
Shiloh, siege of Vicksburg, Corinth, Black River Bridge, Grand Gulf and others.
He was in the hospital at Vicksburg in 1863. He was in the Tennessee and
Mississippi campaigns and he was in the Grand Review in Washington.
Mr. Pentico was transferred to Keokuk, Iowa, and rejoined his regiment at
New Albany, Indiana, and was discharged at Louisville, Kentucky, in 1865. On
April 9, 1867, Mr. Pentico was married to Caroline Cline, who was born in
Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, on September 1, 1842, the daughter of Tobias
Cline, a native of Germany and a tailor by trade, who spent most of his life in
America, where he became well established and was highly respected by all who
knew him. The
death of Mr. Pentico occurred on March 23, 1909. His widow lives retired in a beautiful cottage in Colfax. The
following children were born to the subject and wife: Albert E., Homer, Mrs.
Mara Ida Wiggins, Jesse is deceased; Roy. Past
and Present of Jasper County Iowa, Gen. James B. Weaver, Editor-In-Chief, B.F.
Bowden & Company, Indianapolis, IN, 1912, p. 1040. |
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