Charles Clifton Penick

Background

Penick, Charles Clifton was born on December 9, 1843 in Charlotte Company, Virginia, United States. Son of Edwin Anderson and Mary (Hamner) Penick.

Education

Educated Hampden-Sidney College and Danville, Virginia, Military Institute. Served in 38th Virginia Regiment, C.S.A. Graduate Alexandria Seminary, 1869.

Doctor of Divinity, Kenyon College.

Career

Deacon, 1869, priest, 1870, Protestant Episcopal Church. Rector Bristol, Tennessee, 1869-1870, Mount Savage, Maryland., 1870-1873, Baltimore, 1873-1877, Louisville, 1883-1893, Richmond, Virginia, 1894-1899, Fairmount, West Virginia, 1899-1904, Ascension Church, Frankfort, Kentucky, 1908-1912. Consecrated bishop of Cape Palmas, West. Africa, April 1877.

Author: More Than a Prophet.

Advice to the Church in Africa. Hopes, Perils and Struggles of the Negroes in America.

What Can the Church Do for the Negro in the United States?. Everlasting Life; The Dead Memories—Lessons and Duties of the Confederacy.

The Science of Missions.

Social Side of Christ’s Life. Conquest of the World by Christianity. Address: South Boston, Virginia.

Achievements

• Charles Clifton Penick has been listed as a noteworthy bishop by Marquis Who's Who.

Connections

Married Mary Hoge, 1881.

Father:

Edwin Anderson Penick

Mother:

Mary (Hamner) Penick

Spouse:

Mary Hoge