Robert Franklin Pennell (July 13, 1850 – October 22, 1905) was an American

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and

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. Pennell was born on July 13, 1850, in

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, to Robert and Caroline Pennell. He graduated from

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in 1868, where his uncle,

Gideon Lane Soule Gideon Lane Soule ( ; July 25, 1796 – May 28, 1879) was an American educator, and the third List of Phillips Exeter Academy Principals, principal of Phillips Exeter Academy. Soule was born in Freeport, Maine, in 1796 to Moses and Martha Soule. ...

, was principal, and from

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in 1871 with a degree in classics. Following his graduation, he became an instructor at Exeter, later teaching Latin. He resigned in 1882, seven years after in 1889 becoming the principal of the Marysville schools in

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. From 1890 to 1893 he was president of the

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, schools, and from 1893 to 1897 he was president of

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.Chico University Archives - University Presidents
/ref> He died on October 22, 1905, in

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Works

*''Ancient Greece, from the earliest times down to the death of Alexander'', 1874 *''Rome, from the earliest times down to 476 A.D.'', 1878 *''The Latin Subjunctive'', 1895

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