=Pennington, David Henry=, one of the prominent lumber merchants of Quebec City, formerly a member of the Legislative Assembly, and later a member of the Harbor Commission of Quebec, was born in that city on February the 14th, 1868. He is a son of William Pennington of Preston, England, who for many years lived at Montmorency Falls, while engaged in the office of the G. B. Hall Lumber Company. Entering as a junior clerk of that company, the subject of this sketch worked his way up to the post of general manager of the Company’s branch of operations in the Eastern Townships. Eventually buying out the interests of the Company in the Townships, he established himself at Lyster, there possessing two saw-mills, a large dressing lumber mill, and a pulpwood storing station. His business activities were soon felt in the community, making it, as they did, an important business outlet on the Grand Trunk Railway route between Quebec and Richmond, for the adjacent counties of Lotbinière and Megantic. During the twelve years he resided at Lyster he was Mayor of the place for nine of them, besides being Warden of the County of Megantic. In 1908 he was elected to represent that county in the Local Legislature at Quebec, where his intimate knowledge of French as well as English, won an influence for him at once. In 1912 he sold his properties at Lyster, and returned to Quebec, there to continue his successful career as a lumber merchant. During these years there has passed through his hands an annual output of from sixty to seventy thousand cords of pulpwood alone. He was among the first to export pulpwood to the United States, and was one of the promoters of the Wayagamack Pulp and Paper Company of Three Rivers. He has been largely interested for years in the asbestos industry in the Thetford Mining district, and has a large business interest in timber limits on and near the Lower St. Lawrence. As a public-spirited citizen he takes high rank, having in 1916 been appointed by the Federal Government at Ottawa to the highly responsible position of one of the three Harbor Commissioners of his native city. He has given two of his sons to the Service of the Empire, his eldest, Lieut. Ronald N. Pennington and his younger brother Frank, having distinguished themselves with Canada’s “bravest” at the front. Mr. Pennington has been married twice, first to Miss S. E. Neil, the mother of the two lads just mentioned; and, second, Miss Mary S. Stewart, the daughter of the late Duncan Stewart of Inverness. By the latter he has one son and one daughter. Mr. Pennington’s mother was born in St. John’s, Newfoundland. He is a Warden of the Anglican Cathedral and a member of the Board of Trade, being prominent in all the public and patriotic movements of the city.