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Walter Glenn Penhallow. executive secretary and manager of the Milwaukee Typothetae. Incorporated, was born in Chautauqua county, New York, on his grandfather's farm, September 16, 1877. He is a descendant of one of the old New England families of English origin founded in America by three brothers, John, Samuel and Reuben Penhallow, who came from England prior to the Revolutionary war and settled in eastern Massachusetts. John Penhallow afterward returned to his native country but his two brothers remained. Samuel was prominent in connection with the early history of Massachusetts and was the author of A History of King Philip's War. He never married. Reuben Penhallow, therefore, became the founder of this branch of the family in the new world. He married and had twelve children, nine sons and three daughters. Among his descendants was Reuben Penhallow, grandfather of Walter G. Penhallow, who settled in Chautauqua county, New York, about 1807 when there were but seven families in what are now four of the most populous towns in the county. He was born in Massachusetts but much of his life was spent in the Empire state, where he devoted his attention to agricultural pursuits. His son, William H. H. Penhallow, also a native of Chautauqua county, New York, and a farmer by occupation, served during the Civil war as a member of the One Hundred and Twelfth New York Regiment and thus ably aided in defending the Union cause. For eighteen months he had charge of the prison at Suffolk, Virginia, where military prisoners were incarcerated. He died in the year 1913. His wife, Mary Fidelia Edwards, was a daughter of Vincent Edwards, and was born in Ellington, Chautauqua county, New York. Her mother belonged to the Woods family of Eau Claire county, Wisconsin. The death of Mrs. Penhallow occurred in 1900.

Walter Glenn Penhallow, having obtained a district school education, afterward attended high school in Hamburg, Erie county, New York, and later became a pupil in the Fredonia (N. Y.) Normal School, from which he was graduated in 1900. He won a life certificate as a teacher and taught for several years in the Empire state, being for two years principal of the Chautauqua high school. He afterward attended the Syracuse University and was graduated cum laude in 1907 with the degree of Bachelor of Philosophy. Resuming his work as an educator he became principal of the high school at Penn Yan, New York, and afterward was superintendent of schools at Bordentown, New Jersey. In 1910 he left the teaching profession to take up salesmanship, going on the road for the Charles Beck Paper Company of Philadelphia, which he thus represented for three years. In 1913 he turned his attention to the printing business at Pleasantville, New Jersey, and in six years built up one of the best business enterprises of that character in the county. In 1919 he entered upon the work of the United Typothetae of America as an organizer and came to Milwaukee on the 20th of October of that year. Here he has remained and on the conclusion of the organization work he was made executive secretary. The Typothetae conducts educational classes in cost finding and estimating, salesmanship, business administration and accounting. Everything is done by direct class work. They install cost systems in their numerous plants, make up their monthly cost statements and generally conduct the office as a general service and clearing house for the benefit of the members. The Typothetae is organized in one hundred and twenty-five cities of the United States and Canada and is an international educational institution for the benefit of the printing industry. The Milwaukee Typothetae has one hundred printers associated with it in an effort to learn their costs, which is the main effort of the organization. Without interfering in the least in the fixing of prices the organization has nevertheless accomplished wonderful results in the standardizing of the printing business through the knowledge disseminated as to cost and standards.

On the 22nd of June, 1898, Mr. Penhallow was married to Miss Amy A. Skiff, a daughter of Charles G. Skiff of Cassadaga, New York, and they have become parents of two children: Charles Henry and Mary N., the former a printer living in Pleasantville, New Jersey. On the 9th of July, 1921, Mr. Penhallow was married a second time, when Miss Hazel Maude Haisler of Milwaukee, daughter of Charles Henry and Alice M. Haisler, became his wife.

Mr. Penhallow is of the Methodist faith and fraternally is a member of Kenwood Lodge, No. 303, F. & A. M. of Milwaukee. He is not a club man, preferring to concentrate his efforts and attention upon his business affairs and in this connection he has accomplished much. He has made the most close and earnest study of the interests under his direction and as executive secretary and manager of the Milwaukee Typothetae, Incorporated, has done much for the printing industry in this city.