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Pannabecker (Pannebacker, Pennebacker, Panabaker, Pennypacker, and Pfannebaker), a Mennonite family name going back to the Dutch "pannen-bakker" or tile baker. Samuel W. Pennypacker, former governor of [[Pennsylvania (USA)|Pennsylvania]] and historian, traces the name back to 1568 at Gorcum, Holland, where Jan Pannebakker and his wife were executed as [[Anabaptism|Anabaptist]] martyrs, the former at the stake and the latter by drowning. Members of the family fled to [[Germany|Germany]] whence, cl695, Hendrick Pannebecker of Flamborn near Worms in the [[Palatinate (Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany)|Palatinate]] emigrated to [[Germantown Mennonite Settlement (Pennsylvania, USA)|Germantown]], PA. There he married Eve Umstadt who had arrived in 1685, and became the progenitor of most of the Pannabeckers in America. A brother Frederick is said to have located in Kentucky about the same time but was not so well known. Hendrick Pannebecker located on the Skippack in [[Montgomery County (Pennsylvania, USA)|Montgomery County]], PA, working as a surveyor for William Penn, where he is said to have surveyed the van Bebber tract. His grandsons Matthias and Henry Pannebecker were Mennonite preachers, the former being bishop at Phoenixville, PA. Matthias was zealous in the pulpit and in practical life and took his nonresistant belief so seriously he is reported to have taken the bolts and bars off his house doors and never locked drawers or cupboards. Cornelius Pannebecker, blacksmith and preacher, a great-grandson of Hendrick, migrated in 1810 from [[Montgomery County (Pennsylvania, USA)|Montgomery County]] to [[Waterloo County (Ontario, Canada)|Waterloo County]], ON, and became the ancestor of the numerous Pannebacker families in [[Ontario (Canada)|Ontario]]. In 1957 [[Pannabecker, Samuel Floyd (1896-1977)|S. F. Pannabecker]] was president of [[Mennonite Biblical Seminary (Chicago, Illinois, USA) |Mennonite Biblical Seminary]] in Chicago and his brother R. P. Pannabecker was an elder of the [[United Missionary Church|United Missionary Church]] in northern [[Indiana (USA)|Indiana]]. | Pannabecker (Pannebacker, Pennebacker, Panabaker, Pennypacker, and Pfannebaker), a Mennonite family name going back to the Dutch "pannen-bakker" or tile baker. Samuel W. Pennypacker, former governor of [[Pennsylvania (USA)|Pennsylvania]] and historian, traces the name back to 1568 at Gorcum, Holland, where Jan Pannebakker and his wife were executed as [[Anabaptism|Anabaptist]] martyrs, the former at the stake and the latter by drowning. Members of the family fled to [[Germany|Germany]] whence, cl695, Hendrick Pannebecker of Flamborn near Worms in the [[Palatinate (Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany)|Palatinate]] emigrated to [[Germantown Mennonite Settlement (Pennsylvania, USA)|Germantown]], PA. There he married Eve Umstadt who had arrived in 1685, and became the progenitor of most of the Pannabeckers in America. A brother Frederick is said to have located in Kentucky about the same time but was not so well known. Hendrick Pannebecker located on the Skippack in [[Montgomery County (Pennsylvania, USA)|Montgomery County]], PA, working as a surveyor for William Penn, where he is said to have surveyed the van Bebber tract. His grandsons Matthias and Henry Pannebecker were Mennonite preachers, the former being bishop at Phoenixville, PA. Matthias was zealous in the pulpit and in practical life and took his nonresistant belief so seriously he is reported to have taken the bolts and bars off his house doors and never locked drawers or cupboards. Cornelius Pannebecker, blacksmith and preacher, a great-grandson of Hendrick, migrated in 1810 from [[Montgomery County (Pennsylvania, USA)|Montgomery County]] to [[Waterloo County (Ontario, Canada)|Waterloo County]], ON, and became the ancestor of the numerous Pannebacker families in [[Ontario (Canada)|Ontario]]. In 1957 [[Pannabecker, Samuel Floyd (1896-1977)|S. F. Pannabecker]] was president of [[Mennonite Biblical Seminary (Chicago, Illinois, USA) |Mennonite Biblical Seminary]] in Chicago and his brother R. P. Pannabecker was an elder of the [[United Missionary Church|United Missionary Church]] in northern [[Indiana (USA)|Indiana]]. | ||
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Panabaker, D. N.. "Panabaker Family History." in Waterloo Historical Society, <em class="gameo_bibliography">Twenty-Fifth Annual Report</em> . . . 1937. Kitchener, 1939. | Panabaker, D. N.. "Panabaker Family History." in Waterloo Historical Society, <em class="gameo_bibliography">Twenty-Fifth Annual Report</em> . . . 1937. Kitchener, 1939. | ||
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Pennypacker, S. W. <em class="gameo_bibliography">Hendrick Pannebecker</em>. Philadelphia, 1894. | Pennypacker, S. W. <em class="gameo_bibliography">Hendrick Pannebecker</em>. Philadelphia, 1894. | ||
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Pannabecker (Pannebacker, Pennebacker, Panabaker, Pennypacker, and Pfannebaker), a Mennonite family name going back to the Dutch "pannen-bakker" or tile baker. Samuel W. Pennypacker, former governor of Pennsylvania and historian, traces the name back to 1568 at Gorcum, Holland, where Jan Pannebakker and his wife were executed as Anabaptist martyrs, the former at the stake and the latter by drowning. Members of the family fled to Germany whence, cl695, Hendrick Pannebecker of Flamborn near Worms in the Palatinate emigrated to Germantown, PA. There he married Eve Umstadt who had arrived in 1685, and became the progenitor of most of the Pannabeckers in America. A brother Frederick is said to have located in Kentucky about the same time but was not so well known. Hendrick Pannebecker located on the Skippack in Montgomery County, PA, working as a surveyor for William Penn, where he is said to have surveyed the van Bebber tract. His grandsons Matthias and Henry Pannebecker were Mennonite preachers, the former being bishop at Phoenixville, PA. Matthias was zealous in the pulpit and in practical life and took his nonresistant belief so seriously he is reported to have taken the bolts and bars off his house doors and never locked drawers or cupboards. Cornelius Pannebecker, blacksmith and preacher, a great-grandson of Hendrick, migrated in 1810 from Montgomery County to Waterloo County, ON, and became the ancestor of the numerous Pannebacker families in Ontario. In 1957 S. F. Pannabecker was president of Mennonite Biblical Seminary in Chicago and his brother R. P. Pannabecker was an elder of the United Missionary Church in northern Indiana.
Bibliography
Foster, Edith. "In Pursuit of Freedom." in Christian Living (January-June 1958).
Panabaker, D. N.. "Panabaker Family History." in Waterloo Historical Society, Twenty-Fifth Annual Report . . . 1937. Kitchener, 1939.
Pennypacker, S. W. Annals of Phoenixville and its Vicinity. Philadelphia, 1872.
Pennypacker, S. W. Hendrick Pannebecker. Philadelphia, 1894.
| Author(s) | S. F Pannabecker |
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| Date Published | 1959 |
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Pannabecker, S. F. "Pannabecker." Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. 1959. Web. 16 Apr 2024. https://gameo.org/index.php?title=Pannabecker&oldid=76828.
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Pannabecker, S. F. (1959). Pannabecker. Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. Retrieved 16 April 2024, from https://gameo.org/index.php?title=Pannabecker&oldid=76828.
Adapted by permission of Herald Press, Harrisonburg, Virginia, from Mennonite Encyclopedia, Vol. 4, pp. 114-115. All rights reserved.
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