Millard County Chronicle | 1916-04-27 | Page 4 | Penn's Descendant to War.

Penn's Descendant to War. Vernon George Green, thirty-five years old, a musician, in applying at Sheerness for absolute exemption from service on the ground of ill health and conscientious objection, made the claim that he was the great-grandson of William Penn, who was boru 272 years ago. In his written appeal he said: "I was brought up under strict Christian Chris-tian principles not to take life in any form, my great-grandtather being William Wil-liam Penn, Quaker, founder of Pennsylvania." Penn-sylvania." The tribunal refused exemption ex-emption to Penn's descendant. London Lon-don Observer. ' t