"The Autobiography of a Pennsylvanian" recounts the life of Samuel Whitaker Pennypacker from an autobiographical standpoint. Samuel Whitaker Pennypacker served a Governor of Pennsylvania from 1903 to 1907. Pennypacker also served in the Civil War and fought in the Battle of Gettysburg. The first edition of the autobiography was published in 1916, the year of Pennypacker's death; this second edition was published in 1918.
