THE REVEREND JASPER GREEN PENNINGTON,
D.Min., Archivist, Pennington Research Association, Inc.

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ABOUT: The Pennington Research Association, Inc., was founded
in 1968 to gather, preserve and publish materials relating
to the Pennington Family throughout the world.
Some thirty-five years of publications are available
through the PRA Website ( ) and at the Pennington Archives
located at Earlham College, Richmond, Indiana 47374.
An annual meeting, on-going research of some thirty-five family lines,
a DNA Project, the publication of PENNINGTON PEDIGREES
and other materials are open to members.
Membership information is available at the PRA Website (…..).

ARCHIVIST: The Archivist of the PRA, Inc.,
oversees the collection and deposit of Pennington family
materials from a variety of sources corporate and individual,
for the Pennington Archives at Earlham College. Founded in 1847,
Earlham is a Quaker college forty miles west of Akron,
Ohio with an outstanding collection of historical materials
relating to the Society of Friends, including the Pennington Archives.

DESCRIPTION: The Pennington Archives includes
family genealogies, biographical studies of individual Pennington’s,
census records, marriage, birth and death records,
photographs, scrapbooks, and books written by and about Pennington’s.

LINKS TO WRITINGS:

Pennington Papers: a series of
biographical & bibliographical
studies on individual Penningtons.

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THE REVEREND JASPER GREEN PENNINGTON,
D.Min. Historiographer, Episcopal Diocese of Michigan

ABOUT: The Diocese of Michigan (founded: 1834) is one of four dioceses
in the State, the others beings the Diocese of
Western Michigan (founded: 1875),
the Diocese of Northern Michigan (founded: 1895 ),
and the Diocese of Eastern Michigan (founded: 1995).
The Diocese of Michigan embraces all of that part of the
lower Peninsula of the State of Michigan lying within the counties
of Hillsdale, Lenawee, Monroe, Jackson, Washtenaw,
Wayne, Ingham, Livingston, Oakland (except for Holly Township),
and Macomb; and the portion of Clinton County south of Price Road.
(Constitutional Description, Journal, 2000, pg. 60).

HISTORIOGRAPHER: The Historiographer of the Diocese of Michigan helps
gather and preserve diocesan and parish historical
materials for deposit in Bentley Historical Library, Ann Arbor, Michigan,
where they are catalogues and made available for public research.
These include official papers of the Bishops of Michigan,
Convention Journals, photographs and institutional and parish records.
The Historiographer also acts as a general resource about
the care and conservation of historical materials in parishes and
is available for consultation and public speaking engagements.
The National Association of Episcopal Historians and Archivists,
the Historical Society of the Episcopal Church and the Archives
of the Episcopal Church at Austin, Texas, are all sites which
further the work of diocesan historiographers,
including the Diocese of Michigan.

LINKS TO WRITINGS: