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Men Who Led 151 them are gone either to the war or to their graves," Turner urged him to be active in the matter of locating the university now that the coveted fund had been obtained. " I hope you and your people will not be weary in well doing; you first laid the egg; why should you not raise the eagle?" Mr. Pennell was of sturdy pioneer mold. Born in Vermont in 1815 his education was received in the school of hard work helped out by a short term at the Bennington academy.29 He was but twenty-four when he came to Granville to make his home in Illinois. Already the town had a church and an academy. Mr. Pennell brought to his new home the best possible capital for the day—industry, intelligence, a warm and broad humanity that eventually made him the friend and counselor of the entire community. He worked as a carpenter when he first came to Granville; brought his parents there from Vermont, married, and only left, when, in 1863, he removed to Normal to educate his six daughters. Here he became acquainted with Jesse "W. Fell with whom he was a co-worker in all public improvements. Pennell, like all of the agriculturists, was disappointed when Champaign county obtained the location of the new institution for he had worked with Fell to obtain it for Normal; yet he did not for this reason lose interest in the cause of industrial education nor belief in its success. He died in 1893, too soon to see the university in the position of importance it obtained in later years. JOHN P. EEYNOLDS John P. Reynolds fought valiantly with Turner in the cause of industrial education. From 1861 to 1867 he was prominent in the work and with his power of forcible expression and sound judgment a great help. He was an Ohio man, graduated from Miami university in 1838 at the age of eighteen years. As early as 1861 he was corresponding secretary of the Illinois agricultural society. In an article published in the Prairie Farmer January 2, 1864, is a paragraph that shows that he, like the other agriculturists, resented the fact that the old *Notes made by his daughter, Jane Pennell Carter.
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