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unusual facts about Russell S. Penniman



Ebenezer J. Penniman

Later, he moved to Orwell, Vermont, where he engaged in business as a dry-goods merchant.

In 1850, Penniman defeated incumbent Democrat Alexander W. Buel to be elected as a Whig from Michigan's 1st congressional district to the Thirty-second Congress, serving from March 4, 1851 to March 3, 1853.

Penniman, Virginia

The new plant and the new town for the workers and families were named Penniman, in honor of Russell Sylvanus Penniman, an American chemist who is credited with the invention of ammonia dynamite in 1885, a safer form than the nitroglycerin used with Alfred Nobel's original formulation.


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